Name: Katie O'Brien
Event: Para rowing (PR2 W1x and PR2 Mix2x)
Age: 28
The Galway rower won her first World Championship medal in 2019, securing bronze in the PR2 W1x category.
By 2022, she had made significant progress, winning gold at the World Rowing Championships and setting a new world record in the PR2 W1x.
In the 2023 World Rowing Championships, O'Brien placed fifth in the PR2 Mix2x alongside Steven McGowan, qualifying the boat for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games where she will row with former wheelchair basketballer Tiarnán O'Donnell.
Paris 2024 represents her first Paralympic Games and the first time an Irish boat will be competing at the Paralympic Games since 2012.
