Name: Fiona Murtagh
Event: Rowing - women's four
Age: 29
Fiona Murtagh hails from Galway and studied in both NUIG – her rowing club - and New York's Fordham University on a scholarship.
Murtagh was part of the bronze medal winning 'women’s four’ team in Tokyo and is teamed up with her fellow Galway team-mate from that boat, Aifric Keogh in the women's pair for Paris. Remarkably Murtagh raced in the final in Tokyo with stitches in her arm following an accident during the regatta.
Her other career successes include winning the prestigious Head of Charles regatta two years in a row and Irish rowing championship titles.
