Team Ireland at Rio 2016: Day 1/16
Rio 2016 Team Ireland Live Blog: Day 1
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Rio 2016 – Team Ireland Profile
Pictures and Profiles of all 77 athletes competing for Ireland at the Olympic Games Rio 2016
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Speirs and Just A Jiff top 10 at Badminton
Ireland’s Camilla Speirs and her Irish Sport Horse, Portersize Just A Jiff, produced an outstanding final day performance, to record a top 10 finish at the world famous Badminton Horse Trials in the UK today. The Irish pair had started the day in 17th place after a clear Cross Country round on Saturday and they
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Irish Showjumpers into European Final Day
Ireland have made the cut for the European Team Championship Final in Germany after a nail-biting afternoon at Aachen that shook up the leaderboard. While the Irish quartet of Bertram Allen, Greg Broderick, Cian O’Connor and Denis Lynch dropped one place to hold overnight team ninth position, the afternoon’s action saw Germany unseated as the
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European Showjumping Championships Aachen
The European show jumping championships commence today in Aachen, Germany where Ireland bids to book a place at next year’s Olympic Games in Rio by finishing in the top three of those nations not already qualified. The Irish team which will line out for today’s opening speed round comprises Tipperary native Denis Lynch (39) with Thomas Straumann’s
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Rio 2016 Test Events Continue
Team Ireland Olympic sports continue to gain a performance advantage by familiarizing themselves with the environment they will experience at the Olympics next year by in the Rio Test Events. Following on from recent involvement by Horse Sport Ireland performance staff and Triathlon Ireland athletes and performance staff, Irish Sailing are next up in the Aquece Rio
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Victory in Aga Khan World Class
Congratulations again to Ireland’s show jumping team who emerged triumphant at the RDS in Dublin with a decisive win in the Aga Khan Trophy competition, registering a team total of four faults and the last man not needing to jump in the final round. Twenty year-old Wexford rider Bertram Allen opened for Ireland on the 17
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Cian O’Connor Interview
Cian O’Connor talks about life as one of Ireland’s world class top show jumping riders. Based at Karlswood Stables in County Meath, he achieved the pinnacle of his sporting career to date when claiming individual bronze at the London Olympic Games. Cian competes successfully all over Europe, America, the Middle East and China. He is also
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Aoife Clark International Eventing Rider
In a series of new interviews with some of Ireland’s top athletes we start with Aoife Clark, an Olympian and Irish International Eventing Rider. Aoife, gives an insight into her sport, her achievements to date and her future goals. Aoife from Kildare is based in Oxfordshire and was a member of the Irish Team at the
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Allen Third in World Cup Thriller
In his first ever World Cup Final, Wexford’s 19 year-old Bertram Allen was third overall at Las Vegas tonight (Sunday) in one of the tightest finishing scores ever seen in the famous competition. Starting with one penalty point on his card this evening, Allen and the 11 year-old grey mare Molly Malone had a single
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Allen wins first leg of FEI World Final
Nineteen year-old Irish rider Bertram sped to victory in the first round of the show jumping Longines FEI World Cup Final this morning (Friday) when he and the grey mare Molly Malone defeated riders from 18 other nations with an unbeatable time of 65.45 seconds. The one round Las Vegas speed class saw the Wexford teenager
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Allen triumphs in Dortmund Grand Prix
Congratulations to Ireland’s teenage show jumping star Bertram Allen who pulled off yet another triumph at the weekend (Sunday) when he won the three-star Dortmund Grand Prix on Billy Twomey’s 17 year-old stallion Romanov. Up against an international field mostly made up of older riders and younger horses, the 19 year-old Wexford native nevertheless broke
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