Nicola Tuthill
Athletics
BIOGRAPHY
Nicola, whose dad Norman built her a throwing circle on the family’s dairy farm in her mid-teens, might have been targeting LA 2028 but has made incredible progress in the past year and is the youngest member of the athletics squad. She impressed by finishing ninth in the European final last month at her first major senior competition and, in May, became only the second Irish woman to throw over 70 metres after Eileen O’Keefe, extending her Irish U23 record.
An Ad Astra student in UCD where she studies science, she is only the third female Irish thrower to become an Olympian, following Patricia ‘Pat’ Walsh (ninth in discus in 1984), and world finalist O’Keeffe who competed in the hammer in 2008.
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Next Sunday evening, December 15th at 9:30 pm, the RTÉ Sport Awards 2024 will air live on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player. Hosted by Joanne Cantwell, Darragh Maloney, and Jacqui Hurley from Studio 4 in RTÉ, the event will celebrate Irish sporting excellence in front of an audience filled with the nation’s top athletes. [...]
FIONNUALA MCCORMACK 28TH IN MARATHON IN RECORD FIFTH GAMES
Becoming the first Irish woman ever to compete at five Olympic Games Team Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack finished 28th in the Women’s Marathon around the streets of Paris this morning. ATHLETICS The Wicklow woman ran a typically strong race, moving up the field throughout and left everything out on the course, as she became Ireland’s [...]
RHASIDAT ADELEKE FOURTH IN 400M OLYMPIC FINAL
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DAY 13 MORNING REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND
Team Ireland’s women’s 4x400m relay team have made yet more history at these Paris Olympic Games by becoming the first women’s relay team ever to make an Olympic final, qualifying with a third place finish in their heat. Hurdler Sarah Lavin and 800m athlete Mark English both ran really well placing sixth in their respective semi-finals but missed out on the [...]
WOMEN’S 4x400m RELAY TEAM MAKE HISTORY QUALIFYING FOR OLYMPIC FINAL
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