Tokyo 2020: Team Ireland profiles - Sanita Puspure (Rowing)

In the right form Puspure is another medal hope for Ireland

Sanita Puspure. Photograph: Seb Daly/Sportsfile
Sanita Puspure. Photograph: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Age: 39

Event: Women's Single (W1X)

Titles: World Champion 2018, 2019, European Champion 2019, 2020

Club: Old Collegians Boat Club

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The twice World Champion has been in the top four in her category since 2017. Originally from Latvia, the mother of two lives with her family in Ballincollig, Cork. Both of her children were born in Ireland, where she moved to in 2006 after her husband Kaspar got a job at Dublin Airport. In the right form she is another medal hope for Ireland.

Johnny Watterson

Johnny Watterson

Johnny Watterson is a sports writer with The Irish Times