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| Born | 10 September 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Shane O'Driscoll (born 10 September 1992) is an Irish lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida with the lightweight men's coxless pair. [1]
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