September Sports Star of the Month: Jenny Egan
FOLLOWING her tremendous silver medal win in the Women’s K1 5000m race at ICF Senior Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen, Jenny Egan has been declared The Echo Sports Star for the Month of September.
The Lucan kayaker served up a brilliant tactical race and demonstrated great strength and determination to take the runner-up spot after a huge group dash for the finish line.
Egan, who had won bronze in this very event back in 2018, went one better this time around, finishing just behind winner Emese Kohlami of Hungary and ahead of Great Britain’s Lizzie Broughton – the 2018 World gold medallist.
She followed that feat up with a fifth place finish at the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in Romania and capped off her season by retaining her World Number One ranking in the Women’s K1 5000m class.
Topping the table in that division for the first time back in 2019, Egan believed she was a strong contender to do it again in 2021 having finished runner-up in the ICF World Cup 5000m race in Russia before scooping that World Championship silver in Copenhagen last month.
