The Olympic Council of Ireland has chosen 14 year old Mona McSharry from Co. Sligo as the Irish flag bearer at the Closing Ceremony in Baku’s National Stadium tomorrow (Sun June 28). Mona, who swims with Ballyshannon S.C., is the youngest member of Team Ireland and will join flag bearers from 50 nations at […]
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A final, two semi-finals, two Irish Junior Records and a World Junior Championships qualification saw Ireland’s swimmers complete their best day so far at the Baku Aquatics Centre on day three of competition at the European Games in Azerbaijan. Ireland’s quartet of Danielle Hill, Mona McSharry, Emma Reid and Rachel Bethel qualified for the
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Best wishes to Mona McSharry, Emma Reid, Danielle Hill and Rachel Bethel who will be on this evening in their first Final of the European Games. Hill led the team off with the Backstroke turning at the 50m mark in 5th place, swimming her third event of the morning she then pulled it back in the
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Team Ireland swimmers have produced excellent results this morning at the Baku 2015 European Games. The highlight being the 4x100m relay team qualifying for this evenings final in a time of 4:19:56 and Emma Reid qualifying for the 100m Fly semi-final in a time of 1:02:66, Rachel Bethel qualifying for the 200m freestyle semi-final.
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James Brown has finished in 16th place overall in the semi-final of the 200m Individual Medley at the European Games in Baku. Having swam a lifetime best in this morning’s heats of 2:06.55 the Ards SC swimmer was unable to match that time in the semi-final touching in 2:07.15. Speaking after his swim, the 18
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Team Ireland boxer Sean McComb ensured at least a bronze medal at the inaugural European Games in Baku by winning his lightweight quarter-final on Tuesday. McComb from Belfast secured a unanimous points decision over Turkey’s Yasin Yilmaz, with all three of the judges’ scorecards reading 29-28 in his favour. The 22-year-old southpaw, a member of
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Ireland’s swimmers had an impressive first morning in the pool at the European Games in Baku with two swimmers progressing to semi-finals. Mona McSharry was first up in the heats of the 50m Breaststroke. 14 year old McSharry, competing at her first international championships, blazed through the swim clocking an impressive 32.84 and knocking almost
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A 12 strong Irish swimming team will begin competition tomorrow, Tuesday, at the 1st European Games in Baku. The team, led by Pearse McGuigan (Swim Ireland Connacht Performance Centre Coach) and assisted by Peter Hill (Larne ASC), will compete from the 23rd – 28th June at the Baku Aquatics Centre, 526 swimmers will compete in
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Schedule for Team Ireland: Tuesday 23 June 3×3 Basketball 19:30 Women’s Pool C Ireland vs Slovenia Badminton MAGEE Chloe 09:40 Women’s Singles Group Play Stage Group F Chloe Magee vs Kristine Sefere (LAT) MAGEE Chloe and MAGEE Sam 13:40 Mixed Doubles Group Play Stage A
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Congratulations to Team Ireland’s Natasha McManus and coach Sally Freeman – Natasha has made this evening’s 3m Springboard Final, in the top 10 of the 12 finalists. Well done!! Here are the full results of the qualification round: http://www.baku2015.com/cycling-road/event/men-road-race/phase=crm012100/index.html?intcmp=sport-hp-schline-eventdetail
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Congratulations to Natasha McManus who finished 19th in the preliminary round of the Women’s Diving 1m Springboard event at the 2015 European Games, European Games Park, Baku. McManus performed well in her first major multi sport championship and will compete again in the 3m preliminary round on Sunday. The confidence gained today will be invaluable on
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Fiona Doyle was last night named High Performance Athlete of the Year at the Swim Ireland Annual Awards in the Citywest Hotel, Saggart. Doyle, who is originally from Limerick but based at the University of Calgary in Canada, had an outstanding year in 2014 and won the award based on her performances, in particular her
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