Athletics

BIOGRAPHY Susan Smith (later Walsh) competed in the women's 400 metres hurdles at two Olympic Games - reaching the semi-finals at Atlanta 1996 and finishing 4th in her heat at Sydney 2000, where she pulled a hamstring in the warm-up but insisted on running regardless. From Waterford, she came from a family steeped in GAA [...]

BIOGRAPHY Sinéad Delahunty (later Delahunty-Evans) competed in the women's 1,500 metres at two Olympic Games - reaching the semi-finals at Atlanta 1996 and competing in her heat at Sydney 2000. From Kilkenny, she was recruited by Providence College in Rhode Island, where she became a six-time All-American under legendary Irish coach Ray Treacy - the

BIOGRAPHY Sean Cahill competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, finishing 7th in his heat in 14.28 seconds - a performance made all the more remarkable by the circumstances in which it was achieved. A few weeks before the Games he tore his Achilles tendon. With the assistance of

BIOGRAPHY Roman Linscheid competed in the men's hammer throw at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, finishing with a best throw of 68.14 metres in the qualifying round but not advancing to the final. Linscheid was in outstanding form prior to the Games - at a meet in Chicago he threw a personal best of 73.38

BIOGRAPHY OTHER ATHLETICS OLYMPIANSSEE ALL ATHLETES Adrian O’DwyerAilish SmythAlex WrightAlistair CraggAndrew CoscoranAndy RonanAnn Keenan-BuckleyAoife CookeAva HutchinsonBarbara JohnsonBasil CliffordBertie MessittBob TisdallBreda Dennehy-WillisBrendan BoyceBrendan O’ReillyBrendan QuinnBrendan ReillyBrian FayCaitríona JenningsCarey MayCarlos O’ConnellCaroline O’SheaCathal DoyleCatherina McKiernanCatriona CuddihyCharles ReidyChris O’DonnellCiara EverardCiara MageeanCiarán Ó LionáirdCillin GreeneClaire BerginClaire WalshCliodhna ManningColin GriffinConor McCulloughCormac FinnertyDavid GillickDavid KennyDavid MatthewsDeclan HegartyDeirdre GallagherDeirdre RyanDerval O’RourkeDick HooperDonal McCarthyEamonn

BIOGRAPHY Mark Mandy competed in the men's high jump at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games but failed to clear 2.24 metres in the qualifying round and did not advance to the final. OTHER ATHLETICS OLYMPIANSSEE ALL ATHLETES Adrian O’DwyerAilish SmythAlex WrightAlistair CraggAndrew CoscoranAndy RonanAnn Keenan-BuckleyAoife CookeAva HutchinsonBarbara JohnsonBasil CliffordBertie MessittBob TisdallBreda Dennehy-WillisBrendan BoyceBrendan O’ReillyBrendan QuinnBrendan

BIOGRAPHY Marie Davenport competed in the women's 5,000 metres at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, finishing 14th in her heat in 15:59.12 and not advancing to the final - a performance all the more remarkable for the fact that she was only 19 years old at the time. She returned to the Olympics eight years

BIOGRAPHY Kathy McCandless competed in the women's 5,000 metres at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, finishing 10th in her heat in 15:55.66. A native of California, McCandless was offered athletic scholarships to several universities in her home state but instead enrolled at Princeton University in New Jersey, an Ivy League institution, where she opted out

BIOGRAPHY Gary Ryan competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, setting a new Irish national record of 20.78 seconds in his first round heat before being eliminated in the second round after clocking 20.89. He became the first Irish athlete to break the 21.00 seconds barrier, achieving it twice in

BIOGRAPHY Eugene Farrell competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, finishing 6th in his heat in 47.18 seconds and not advancing to the quarter-finals. OTHER ATHLETICS OLYMPIANSSEE ALL ATHLETES Adrian O’DwyerAilish SmythAlex WrightAlistair CraggAndrew CoscoranAndy RonanAnn Keenan-BuckleyAoife CookeAva HutchinsonBarbara JohnsonBasil CliffordBertie MessittBob TisdallBreda Dennehy-WillisBrendan BoyceBrendan O’ReillyBrendan QuinnBrendan ReillyBrian FayCaitríona JenningsCarey

BIOGRAPHY Deirdre Gallagher competed in the women's 10 kilometres race walk at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, finishing 23rd. A student at University College Dublin, she took a year's sabbatical from her studies to prepare for the Games and qualified with a time that was 18 seconds inside the A standard - a comfortable margin

BIOGRAPHY David Matthews competed in the men's 800 metres at two Olympic Games - reaching the semi-finals at Atlanta 1996 and finishing 5th in his heat at Sydney 2000. From Leixlip, Co. Kildare, Matthews won the Irish Schools 800 metres title for Coláiste Chiaráin in Leixlip in 1992 and was quickly taken under the wing