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RECIPIENTS OF €200,000 IOC SCHOLARSHIP FUND REVEALED – MILANO CORTINA 2026
The Olympic Federation of Ireland today revealed the recipients of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Scholarships, with a total pot of almost €200,000 to be distributed among eight athletes, to assist them with their preparations for the next Winter Olympic Games which takes place in Italy in 2026. The athletes represent seven different disciplines, representing …
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Olympian Emily Kay Announces Her Retirement | Cycling
Emily Kay announces her retirement from cycling with immediate effect. A talented track cyclist, the 28-year-old steps off the bike following a successful career that saw her pick up bronze medals at the European Championships, UCI World Cup and Commonwealth Games. Kay represented the United Kingdom and England in international competitions before switching allegiances to Ireland …
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The Mastermind Behind Team Ireland’s Success in Boxing – Zauri Antia
Described as ‘the mastermind behind Team Ireland’s success in boxing’, Zauri Antia was the very popular winner of the OFI’s prestigious President’s Award recently for services to Irish Olympic sport. The word ‘mastermind’ conjures up images of an evil genius hiding his secrets in a mountainous lair but there is nothing surreptitious about Antia or …
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400,000 TICKETS FOR PARIS 2024
Paris 2024 will release 400,000 tickets to the public on the global sales platform on 30th November 2023 at 10:00am (CET) 09:00AM (IST). Tickets for all sports are expected to be on sale. Please logon to paris2024.org to apply on the 30th of November!
FUTURE GAMES
STAY SOCIAL
Team Ireland’s top athletics stars are set for the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary ☘️
📆 19-27, August
For the first time ever, @vmsportie will broadcast live coverage of the championships across all nine days 📺
A full schedule can be found here on our website ☘️
You do not want to miss this 🔥
#TeamIreland | #WorldAthleticsChamps
A weekend that will go down in history ✍️
The current and future rising stars of Irish swimming in a stunning display and never been done before top the final medal table at the LEN U23 European Swimming Championships 🥇
Read the full weekend report on our website ☘️
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When the world descended on Scotland 🏴
Team Ireland at the UCI Cycling World Championships ☘️
Some great performances for the team and a good set up for 2024 🇫🇷
🚴♀️ Lara Gillespie continues her stunning run of form finishing 9th in the Women’s Omnium | Ireland’s highest placing ever 👊
🚴♀️ Women’s Team Pursuit finish 9th with vital points collected for Paris
🚴 Darren Rafferty was a handful of seconds away from a podium finish in the U23 Time Trial
🚴♀️Lucy Benezet Minns finished 4th in the Junior Women’s Time Trial after a stellar performance for her debut 👊
The current and future rising stars of Irish cycling is ✨
Read the full weeks report on our website!
📸 Swpix
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Leaving the youth fleet in 2022 by winning the Triple Crown 🥇
⛵️Youth World Championships
⛵️ISAF Youth World Championships
⛵️Youth European Championships
Still in the infancy of her senior level programme Paris Scholar Eve McMahon will continue building her experience this week in the senior fleet for the ILCA6 women’s single-handed event at The Hague, Netherlands. The first and biggest of the national qualifying events for Paris 2024.
The 2023 Sailing World Championships take place from 8-20 August ☘️
#TeamIreland #ParisScholar
✨ medal moments ✨
Conor Murphy 🥈 Time Trial
Cian Crampton 🥉 Discus Throw
The future is 🌟
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RESULTS DAY 7️⃣ | EYOF
What a day 🔥☘️
Our second medal 🥉with Cian Crampton in the Boy’s Discus Throw ⚡️
Nicole Dinan finally got her EYOF campaign underway in the girl’s 1500m finishing 11th 🙌🙏
To the future 🌟
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Our Permanent TSB Flagbearers for the Closing Ceremony of the European Youth Olympic Festival 👇
𝙂𝙮𝙢𝙣𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙈𝙘𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 & 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙮 ☘️
Maeve McGuinness has improved immensely since competing at EYOF 2022 🤸♀️
Conor Murphy’s performance in the time-trial was something special ⚡️
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Cian Crampton… ✍️ remember the name
Bronze 🥉 in the Boy’s Discus Throw at the European Youth Olympic Festival ☘️
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SCHEDULE DAY 7️⃣ | EYOF
The final day of competition has arrived 👊
Permanent TSB Flagbearer Cian Crampton is up first in the Discus Throw Final ⚡️
Nicole Dinan finally gets her EYOF competition started 🏃♀️ in the 1500m Final!
Watch the action live | eoctv.org
#TeamIreland | #EYOFMaribor2023
RESULTS DAY 6️⃣ | EYOF
The penultimate day of competition for Team Ireland at the EYOF 👊
🏃♂️Davey Davitt was agonisingly close to a medal in the 400m hurdles, finishing 4th just 0.1 off 🥉
🏃♂️Oisin McGloin made his debut for Team Ireland in the 3000m finishing 11th in Europe 🙌
🏃♀️ Leila Colfer, Katie Doherty, Hollie Kilroe and Amy-Jo Kieran’s ran a seasons best in the Medley Relay
🏃♂️ Jesse Osas, Donal Martin, Davey Davitt and Jason O’Reilly ran a brand new record 🔥
🏊♀️ Ava Jones was also in action in the pool this morning for the 50m freestyle finishing in 27.35 👊
One more day to go! ☘️
#TeamIreland | #EYOFMaribor2023
SCHEDULE DAY 6️⃣ | EYOF
Ava Jones is the sole swimmer in the pool this morning 👊
Finals time for athletics with Davey Davitt in the 400m Hurdles and Oisin McGloin in the 3k 🔥
Watch the action live | eoctv.org
#TeamIreland | #EYOFMaribor2023
RESULTS DAY ✋ | EYOF
Another day of top performances from Team Ireland across swimming, athletics and cycling 👊
🎽 | Athletics
🏃♀️Enya Silkena finished the Heptathlon with a new PB of 5072 9th overall 🙌
🏃♂️Donal Martin flew to 6th in the 200m
🏃♂️Michael Kent jumped his way to 8th in Europe on his birthday 🎂
🚴♂️🚴♂️🚴♂️ | Cycling
🚴♀️Aliyah Rafferty, Greta Lawless and Kate Murphy were racing around Maribor for the Girl’s Road Race finishing 13th 43rd and 38th respectively
🚴♂️David Gaffney, Conor Murphy and Philip O’Connor were next up finishing in 25th, 41st and 87th respectively with an early lap crash for Philip but still finishing out the race 💪
🏊♀️ | SWIMMING
🏊♂️Sean Donnellan competed in his second semifinal of the week - boys 100m butterfly finishing 14th in Europe 👊
🏊♀️Ava Jones finished her semifinal of the girl’s 100m breaststroke in 10th overall
🏊♂️Brydan Byrne was the final swimmer to compete this evening in the final of the Boy’s 200m backstroke finishing in 6th 🔥
#TeamIreland | #EYOFMaribor2023
