Canoe Slalom Jegou Confirmed as Team Ireland Member for Tokyo Olympic Games Canoe Slalom racer Liam Jegou has become the first Team Ireland athlete to be selected for the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer. Originally from Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, Jegou has already stamped his mark on the international stage, winning silver in the 2014 […]
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Hockey: The Irish women’s team’s remarkable run to the Hockey World Cup final in London, the pinnacle of the sport outside of the Olympic Games, earned them an historic silver medal. Coached by Graham Shaw and captained by Katie Mullan, the hockey team’s thrilling sequence of matches got the whole country behind them and their
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Rowing: World Rowing Championships 2018 Plovdiv, Bulgaria Irish Results – Sunday 16th September 2018 Sanita Puspure Wins Ireland’s Second Gold Medal Sanita Puspure has today been crowned World Champion after winning Gold in the women’s single sculls. Following a week of highly impressive form, Puspure executed yet another dominant performance in the final in
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CYCLING MASSIVE crowds flocked to cycling’s World Road Championships in Bergen in September where the huge attendances and support saw it favourably compared to when Norway hosted the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994. Best of the Irish over some demanding courses were Olympian Nicholas Roche and Mark Downey. Roche’s 12th in the 31km
Jenny Egan took the bronze medal in the 26.2 kilometre K1 race at the Canoe Marathon World Championships in South Africa on Saturday. Egan won a world championship medal, a bronze, as a junior, and has come close to matching it on more than one occasion – most notably last year, when a handle broke
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Congratulations to Ireland’s Liam Jegou has qualified for the semi finals of the Slalom World Championships in Lee Valley, London and puts himself in contention to qualify for Rio 2016. 19 year old Jegou ,an OCI scholarship athlete showed great maturity to complete his second run in 90.83 secs and took ninth of the 10
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Congratulations to Brendan Irvine who Salman Alizada (Azerbaijan) to guarantee Team Ireland’s first medal at the European Games. He will now meet Zamotayev of the Ukraine for a place n the final of the Men’s Light Fly. “It was a proper battle,” said Irvine, “and I knew it was going to be. He was the
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Jenny Egan put in a superb performance this afternoon in the women’s Kayak Single (K1) 5000m Final in Mingachevir. Maryna Litvinchuk led from the front and was a deserved winner. However the scrap for Silver and Bronze medals was between Lana Belcher (GB) and Ranata Csay (Hungary) and Jenny Egan. Egan eventually lost out by
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Team Ireland canoeists had a solid start in their non preferred events today. Following on from her brother Peter (and Simas Dobrovolsksi semi final qualification Jenny Egan finished 7th in the K1 500m semi final and qualifies for the B Final. David Pringle said “Jenny set a new PB and National record in K1 500m
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Peter Egan and Simas Dobrovolskis qualified for the semi final of the K2 1000m after they finished 7th in their heat this morning at Mingachevir . Team Manager Dave Pringle said “the k2 1000m is not their preferred distance so they are happy with the result” http://www.baku2015.com/canoe-sprint/event/kayak-double-1000m-men/phase=cfm121900/index.html?intcmp=sr-bycountry-byday-schline-result
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Team Ireland Canoeing have just left the main athlete village in Baku for their competition athlete village. Mingachevir will host the Canoe Sprint competition during the Baku 2015 Games. The fourth biggest city in Azerbaijan, Mingachevir is famous for its water reservoirs and known as the City of Lights. Over three exciting days of competition,
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Top Irish golf prospect Olivia Mehaffey and World Youth Olympic canoe Medallist Robert Hendrick inspired by their experiences at the Nanjing Youth Olympics in 2014 have made significant progress in recent weeks. Mehaffey defied harsh conditions at one of golf’s toughest courses, Royal Troon, and collected the most prestigious prize yet in her career, the Helen Holm Trophy. Mehaffey,
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