Congratulations to Ireland’s Robert Kendrick who has qualified for the semi-final of the men’s C1 Obstacle slalom. He will now face Slovenia’s Leon Breznik for a place in the final on Wednesday 27th August at 08.23am Irish Time. Watch it live on Olympic TV http://www.olympic.org/ Race Number Start Time Course Bib Name Birth Date 2 15:23:00 1 […]
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Congratulations to Ciara Ginty on winning a silver medal in the Nanjing 2014 women’s lightweight boxing competition. It was a brave performance from a very talented young women but on the day Gonzales of the USA deserved her victory and the Gold Medal. All of our Team Ireland boxers, their coaching team and Olympic Council
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Results to date for Team Ireland can be viewed here. In action tomorrow 26th August: Kevin Le Blanc and Olivia Mehaffey in the mixed golf competition, Robert Hendrick in Slalom C1 heats and Ciara Ginty boxing for Gold in women’s light weight.
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As the young ambassador for Team Ireland Leah Ewart’s role throughout the games is to encourage the athletes to participate in the Culture and Education Programme (CEP) which gives them the opportunity to make new friends, to learn about other cultures and backgrounds and to experience the Olympic values. Furthermore, she is there to help the athletes
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Kevin Le Blanc and Olivia Mehaffey are in 27th position on +5 over par after two rounds of the Youth Olympic Games mixed golf competition. The current leaders are Emily Pederson and Alex Pultz on -7 under par. Teams are made up of one male and one female player. Players are primarily from the same NOC,
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Michaela Walsh (Swinford AC) produced a fine performance in the Shot Put final at the World Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China throwing a personal best of 15.69 to place 6th. This improved on her personal best of 15.59m she set when qualifying for the A final. Adam King (Iveragh AC) was 8th in the Hammer
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Donegal’s Michael Gallagher competes for Team Ireland in the Men’s Heavy (91kg) Bronze Medal scheduled today at 14.15pm (Irish Time) Best wishes to Michael. To watch http://nanjing.ovp.olympic.tv/ http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/ENG/BX/BXR173A_YO2014BXM091102ENG.htm Int. Expo Centre Hall D 25 Aug 21:15 Competitors Player Colour KIM Jin Nyong GALLAGHER Michael
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Christina Desmond narrowly lost her bronze medal contest today in Nanjing in the women’s middle weight category. However its been a fantastic tournament for Christina and she and Irish Boxing can be very proud of her achievements in Nanjing for Team Ireland. Irish coach Billy McLean said “Christina gave it 110% against a very good Australian
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Results for the Irish Team can also be viewed here. Athletics: Roseanna McGuckian finished 11th in the Women’s 200 meters: 1. Gold – Jamaica – WHYTE Natalliah 23.55 2. Silver – Ukraine – KOBA Dzhois 23.94 3. Bronze – United States of America – JOHNSON Brandee 24.28 4. Kenya – THOMAS Maureen Nyatichi 24.43 5.
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Results for the Irish Team can also be viewed here. Athletics: Louise Shanahan finished 6th in Women’s 800 m with her Personal Best at 2:08.29 1. Gold – Ghana – BISSAH Martha 2:04.90 2. Silver – Ethiopia – NEGERI Hawi Alemu 2:06.01 3. Bronze – Germany – KALIS Mareen 2:06.03 4. Italy – BELLO Elena
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The Boxing competition draw has just been published online. Click on the following ling to view: http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/BX/YO2014_BX_C58_BX0000Y23.pd In the women’s middleweight category Christina Desmond gets a bye into the semi final and faces CHEN from Taipei – click on the link for Christina’s draw: http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/BX/YO2014_BX_C75_BXW075000.pdf Daily Competition Schedule Sat, 23 Aug Start Time Location
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Roseanna McGuickian ran 24.77 in the women’s 200m heats and is ranked 10th overall from the 3 heats, just missing out on the final by 0.03 seconds. Congratulations on an excellent run in a very competitive world class field of 200m athletes. Summary – Women’s 200m Qualifications Rank Bib Name Wind Result
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