Natalya Coyle
Modern - Pentathlon
BIOGRAPHY
Tokyo marks Natalya’s third Olympic Games. In 2012 she became Ireland’s first modern pentathlete to qualify for an Olympics since the 1980s and finished ninth in London 2012. In Rio 2016 she finished sixth and she qualified very early for Tokyo 2020 by finishing 5th at the 2018 European Championships. She won her first individual World Cup medal in Sophia in 2018 (she had already made podium in mixed relay) and she won another individual World Cup silver in Egypt 2019. In the past 12 years she has made the World Cup Finals (involving the world’s top 36) nine times, narrowly finishing fourth in 2018 and fifth in mid-May this year.
PENTATHLON NEWS
IOC EB puts forward LA28’s additional sports proposal to the IOC Session
Baseball/softball, cricket (T20), flag football, lacrosse (sixes) and squash are the five sports submitted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Executive Board (EB) to the upcoming IOC Session as additional sports for the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 (LA28). These additional sports were proposed by the LA28 Organising Committee, for its edition of the Games only, […]
TEAM IRELAND MODERN PENTATHLON ATHLETES NAMED FOR EUROPEAN GAMES IN KRAKOW 2023
The Olympic Federation of Ireland has today named a three-person team to compete in Modern Pentathlon at the European Games in Krakow. Doubling up as the European Championships, the event in Krakow offers a significant opportunity for athletes to qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris next year, with eight quota spots available. Team Ireland […]
SIVE BRASSIL – A DUAL CAREER
OFI Paris Scholarship Recipient and Modern Pentathlete Sive Brassil MODERN Pentathlon’s Sive Brassil sent out the most emphatic marker yet of her progress when she bagged her highest finish (eighth) at the European Championships in Hungary in mid-September.Her previous best placing at Euros was 16th so what helped the 28-year-old from Ballinasloe make such a […]
European Modern Pentathlon Championships – Pentathlon Ireland Team
Sive Brassil and Isobel Radford Dodd will take on the continent’s best as Ireland’s challengers at the 2022 European Modern Pentathlon Championships in Hungary this week. Veteran Brassil will be leading the charge as she looks to build on a solid season of competition while Radford Dodd will be making her senior European debut in […]
MARATHON AND GOLF TAKE CENTRE STAGE IN TOKYO THIS MORNING WHILE COYLE ANNOUNCED AS FLAGBEARER FOR CLOSING CEREMONY
Morning report from Team Ireland on Day 15 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games All focus for Team Ireland was on the marathon and golf this morning as the women’s marathon got underway in Sapporo, while the final day of the Women’s Individual Stroke Play was held in Tokyo. With the Games now in their […]
GOLF, MODERN PENTATHLON, CYCLING AND ATHLETICS ROUND OUT BUSY DAY 13 FOR TEAM IRELAND
It was another jam-packed afternoon and evening in Tokyo for Team Ireland today, with a host of Irish athletes in action across a range of disciplines. Three-time Olympian Natalya Coyle got off to an impressive start in the Women’s Individual Fencing Round, and will now go into Day Two of her event lying in joint […]