BELFAST BOXING’S OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDALLIST AIDAN WALSH ‘THE LONGEST TEN SECONDS’ 25 April 2023 Aidan Walsh’s Olympic bronze medal moment is revisited in the second video in a three-part mini docuseries from the Olympic Federation of Ireland. The series reflects on some of the stories behind the Team Ireland Tokyo 2020 medallists. The Belfast boxer wrote […]
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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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Five Irish boxers Kellie Harrington, Amy Broadhurst, Tina Desmond and Caitlin Fryers and Aoife O’Rourke are through to tomorrow’s gold medal contests at the European Elite women’s championships in Budva, Montenegro. Earlier, there was disappointment for Tokyo Olympian and Commonwealth Games featherweight champion Michaela Walsh, who lost on a split decision to her long-time nemesis
Amy Broadhurst, Christina Desmond, Michaela Walsh, Shannon Sweeney, Kellie Harrington and Caitlin Fryers have all won their quarter-final bouts meaning Team Ireland have secured at least 6 Bronze medals and a chance at winning silver or gold in Montenegro. Broadhurst, moved into the light welterweight semi-finals with a victory over her Serbia’s Milena Malovic, she
Rhasidat Adeleke (Athletics)Rhasidat (who doesn’t turn 20 until August 2022) is from Tallaght and is already blazing a trail for Irish sprinting. In 2018, aged just15, she became the European Youth (U18) 200m champion in Hungary. In 2019 she won double sprint gold at the European Youth Olympics in Baku. In July 2021 she became
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Who doesn’t love the sound of the National Anthem? In the history of Team Ireland at the Olympic Games, Ireland’s National Anthem was played a total of seven times in almost 100 years. In Tokyo 2020 Amhrán na bhFiann got two more airings, bringing tears of joy to athletes and supporters of Team Ireland right
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Kellie Harrington wrote her way into the history books in Tokyo this morning, as she overcame Beatriz Ferreira of Brazil in stunning fashion by unanimous decision in the Women’s Light final. Harrington came into the bout having never met the Brazilian before, and Ferreira had proven herself as a force to be reckoned with in
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Kellie Harrington will box for gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games this coming Sunday as she put in a tough and gritty performance in her semi-final bout against Sudaporn Seesondee of Thailand this morning, to take the win – and a minimum silver medal – on a 3-2 split decision. They were neck-and-neck throughout,
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There was big excitement in Tokyo this evening as Team Irelandboxer, Aidan Walsh, officially received his Olympic bronze medal for the Men’s Welter (63-69kg). Having made his Olympic debut at this year’s Games, the Belfast boxer was thrilled to finish with a coveted Olympic medal: “When I walked into the club at eight years of
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Boxer Kellie Harrington put in a great morning’s work in Tokyo this morning against a tricky opponent in Imane Khelif of Algeria, to win by unanimous decision and guarantee at least a bronze medal. Despite a good opening minute from Khelif, Harrington got the measure of her quickly and from the midway point of the
There was big excitement in Tokyo this evening as Team Irelandboxer, Aidan Walsh, officially received his Olympic bronze medal for the Men’s Welter (63-69kg). Having made his Olympic debut at this year’s Games, the Belfast boxer was thrilled to finish with a coveted Olympic medal: “When I walked into the club at eight years of
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It was another action-packed morning for Team Ireland in a sweltering Tokyo this morning. There was disappointment for boxer, Kurt Walker, who lost out in his quarter-final bout with USA’s Duke Ragan by the finest of margins, a 3-2 split decision after a pulsating contest. In athletics, there were fantastic performances from Eilish Flanagan and
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