Weekend Round Up: Gillespie is a double European Champion, O’Sullivan and Healy go 1-2 in Espoo, Fay becomes the fastest Irishman ever over 5000m, Coscoran lowers his 1500m National Record, Irish Sailors finish up at the Olympic Test Event in Marseille It was a weekend marked by a long-awaited breakthrough, Gillespie having just been […]
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In the 22 years of Team Ireland competing at the European Youth Olympic Festival – Ireland has had significant success. There have been 70 medals won by Irish athletes in that time, and the most successful Games for Team Ireland was in Tibilisi in 2015, with a total of ten medals being spread across athletics
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IRELAND’S SARAH LAVIN WINS EUROPEAN GAMES ATHLETICS BRONZE A full three days after she raced Limerick’s Sarah Lavin has won Ireland’s second medal of these European Games. The Permanent TSB Flagbearer for Team Ireland claimed bronze in the 100m Hurdles after the completion of the event today in the three divisions that form part of the European Athletics
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The competition kicked off at the European Games in Krakow, Poland today, with athletics being the sole sport on the programme on the first day. Doubling up as the European Team Championships, Team Ireland’s 44-strong athletics team are competing in the event with the main objective of moving out of Division 3. Between the 20th of June
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A big night for Irish athletics in the 1500m at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze Meet in Nice yesterday, with Andrew Coscoran breaking the Irish senior 1500m record. Coscoran crossed in 3:32.68NR to take yet another win on the Continental Tour, breaking his 3:33.49 record from indoors in Birmingham earlier this year. The time betters Ray
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Tokyo Olympians Sarah Lavin & Liam Jegou to carry Flag at European Games Opening Ceremony Tokyo Olympians Sarah Lavin and Liam Jegou have been named by the Olympic Federation of Ireland as the Permanent TSB Team Ireland Flagbearers for the European Games in Krakow this month. The multi-sport Games will see 121 athletes compete
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Full Athletics Team Named for European Games Competition in Krakow 2023 Doubles as European Team Championships The Olympic Federation of Ireland has today named the forty-four athletes who will compete at the European Games in Krakow. While Athletics has featured on the European Games programme since 2015, this is the first time that
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Rhasidat Adeleke (Tallaght A.C.) has obliterated her own Irish 400m record at the NCAA Division 1 Prelims West in Sacramento, California in the early hours of this morning. Competing for a place in next month’s NCAA Finals in Austin, Adeleke produced a scintillating quarter-final performance to advance with ease, winning her race in an extraordinary
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April was a month to remember for Irish athletes and Team Ireland fans. A new European Champion, National Records, athletes writing themselves into the history books. The level of performance has risen and Irish athletes are now setting times that are World leading. Take a look at some of the action and results below.
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ADDITIONAL FUNDS ADDED WITH €115,000 DISTRIBUTED ACROSS 16 SPORTS Following an overwhelming response in applications to the Make a Difference athlete fund that was announced by the OFI Athletes’ Commission earlier this year, the Olympic Federation of Ireland has channelled an additional €50,000 directly to athletes. Athletes across sixteen sports were awarded a total amount
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OPPORTUNITY TO GET ENTRY TO THE MARATHON FOR ALL (10KM) Two Free Entries to be won to celebrate Paris 2024 500 Days To Go Next Tuesday, the 14th of March, people around the world will be celebrating 500 days to go until the biggest sporting event in the world. The next edition of the summer
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To celebrate International Women’s Day 2023, and Gender Equality Month, the Olympic Federation of Ireland has today announced a series of profiles of some of Ireland’s high-performance female coaches, who have been blazing a trail in Irish Olympic sport. The series kicks off today with interviews with two well-known names in Irish sport, Lisa Jacob
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