Another hugely impressive set of performances from Irish horses and riders at the highest level of world Show Jumping saw them fill four of the top 10 places in last night’s (Saturday) $401,000 Fidelity Investments Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, USA. Meath’s Cian O’Connor was best of the Irish after he […]
In another stunning result on the world stage, Irish riders claimed all of the top five places in last night’s (Thursday) five-star $73,000 Adequan WEF Challenge Cup Round 9 at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, USA. Offaly’s Darragh Kenny and the 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse Sligo Balou Boy took victory after a 10-horse jump-off,
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A strong performance which included six clear rounds from the Michael Blake-managed Irish Show Jumping team of Shane Sweetnam, Bertram Allen, Michael Duffy and Cian O’Connor, saw them finish as runners-up in the $150,000 four-star Nations Cup at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, which concluded in the early hours of this morning (Saturday). It was
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Irish Show Jumping team manager Michael Blake (pictured) has named his team for tomorrow’s (Friday) four-star FEI Nations Cup at Wellington in Florida, USA, which will be Ireland’s first team action of the 2021 season. Ireland have been drawn fourth to jump of the eight teams that take part and line out as follows: Cork’s
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Wexford’s Bertram Allen and The Irish Sport Horse Castlefield Vegas continued their excellent run of from, by taking a superb victory in Sunday’s €137,000 three-star Grand Prix at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, USA. From a start list of 45 combinations, 18 made it into the jump-off and at the finish Irish horses and
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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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Irish Dressage rider Anna Merveldt’s hopes of qualifying for this season’s FEI World Cup Dressage Finals received another huge boost today (Sunday), after she recorded an impressive ninth place finish in the FEI World Cup Freestyle Grand Prix at Salzburg in Austria. Drawn second to go of 13 competitors and riding the 12-year-old gelding Esporim,
The Tokyo Olympic qualification status of the athletes can be found AT THIS LINK which will be regularly updated. While many athletes are currently training from home, with little competition, see below a summary of relevant updates from sports to kick off the new year. To date 52 Olympic athletes have secured Olympic qualification spots
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Horse Sport Ireland’s Eventing High Performance Director Sally Corscadden today announced the updated Tokyo longlist squad and Tokyo 2020 potential squad for this years Olympic Games. Aoife Clark with Celus D’Ermac Z (ZANG) – 2011 bay gelding by Chico’s Boy (HOLST) and out of Valencia Odeveld (HOLST), by Corofino I (HOLST). Bred by M. Burno De La Dure.
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This week’s update includes a number of activities across our Olympic community – with international competitions taking place in Taekwondo, Golf and Cycling, all detailed below. Also, this week’s interview is with Judoka Megan Fletcher, who is currently sitting inside Olympic qualification in 14th place – she talks about training in her parent’s garden centre
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Ireland record another Nations Cup podium finish after thrilling battle in Spain For the second week in-a-row, the Irish Show Jumping team, managed by Michael Blake, have finished in third place in FEI Nations Cup competition – this time at Vejer De La Frontera in Spain. A massive 17 teams lined out at the Spanish
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Ireland’s 2019 European Championship bronze medallist Cathal Daniels continued his preparations for the Tokyo Olympic Games, with a commanding win in the feature CCI4*-S at this weekend’s Portugal Winter Tour in Barroca d’Alva. The Portugal Winter Tour is a chance for some international athletes to achieve the qualification standard needed for the Tokyo Olympic Games,
