The 2021 Irish Canoe Slalom Team has been confirmed ahead of the Senior European Championships in Ivrea, Italy (6th 9th May). This event will also act as the European continental Olympic Qualifier, with spots up for grabs in the K1 Men, K1 Women and C1 Women. Ireland will be fielding an extremely strong team, with […]
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This evening’s weekly update includes highlights of upcoming events for both our Tokyo 2020 athletes and our Beijing 2022 athletes. You will also note that this week we have updated the number of athletes who have achieved qualifying times or spots in the Tokyo Olympics to reflect the changes to the Swim Ireland policy. This
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The European Olympic Committees (EOC) is pleased to announce the first three sports that have been officially confirmed from the previously announced provisional list of sports, that will make up a comprehensive and varied sports programme, including a number of Olympic Sports, for the European Games Kraków-Małopolska 2023. Canoe, Taekwondo and Modern Pentathlon have been
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. This weekend is relatively quiet for Irish Olympic athletes, competition wise, following last weekend’s sporting activities, which saw among other top results Ireland’s Liam Jegou win our first C1 Canoe Slalom World Cup gold medal in Pau. The Olympic qualification status of the athletes can be found AT THIS LINK which will be regularly
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EOC, Krakow-Małopolska agree on preliminary list of sports for European Games The European Olympic Committees (EOC) this weekend welcomed a delegation from Poland to the CONI headquarters in Rome for discussions on the 3rd edition of the European Games (EG), which are scheduled to take place in Krakow-Małopolska in summer 2023. The meeting was led
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Canoe Slalom Jegou Confirmed as Team Ireland Member for Tokyo Olympic Games Canoe Slalom racer Liam Jegou has become the first Team Ireland athlete to be selected for the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer. Originally from Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, Jegou has already stamped his mark on the international stage, winning silver in the 2014
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Hockey: The Irish women’s team’s remarkable run to the Hockey World Cup final in London, the pinnacle of the sport outside of the Olympic Games, earned them an historic silver medal. Coached by Graham Shaw and captained by Katie Mullan, the hockey team’s thrilling sequence of matches got the whole country behind them and their
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Rowing: World Rowing Championships 2018 Plovdiv, Bulgaria Irish Results – Sunday 16th September 2018 Sanita Puspure Wins Ireland’s Second Gold Medal Sanita Puspure has today been crowned World Champion after winning Gold in the women’s single sculls. Following a week of highly impressive form, Puspure executed yet another dominant performance in the final in
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CYCLING MASSIVE crowds flocked to cycling’s World Road Championships in Bergen in September where the huge attendances and support saw it favourably compared to when Norway hosted the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994. Best of the Irish over some demanding courses were Olympian Nicholas Roche and Mark Downey. Roche’s 12th in the 31km
Jenny Egan took the bronze medal in the 26.2 kilometre K1 race at the Canoe Marathon World Championships in South Africa on Saturday. Egan won a world championship medal, a bronze, as a junior, and has come close to matching it on more than one occasion – most notably last year, when a handle broke
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Congratulations to Ireland’s Liam Jegou has qualified for the semi finals of the Slalom World Championships in Lee Valley, London and puts himself in contention to qualify for Rio 2016. 19 year old Jegou ,an OCI scholarship athlete showed great maturity to complete his second run in 90.83 secs and took ninth of the 10
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Congratulations to Brendan Irvine who Salman Alizada (Azerbaijan) to guarantee Team Ireland’s first medal at the European Games. He will now meet Zamotayev of the Ukraine for a place n the final of the Men’s Light Fly. “It was a proper battle,” said Irvine, “and I knew it was going to be. He was the
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