350,000 USD to be distributed across thirteen sports
The Olympic Federation of Ireland today revealed the recipients of the Paris Scholarships, as preparations are already underway for the Summer Olympic Games in Paris 2024. A total pot of $350,000 will be distributed to Olympic hopefuls with the Women’s Hockey team awarded the team grant of $100,000. The fifteen individual grants to a total of $250,000 were awarded to athletes from twelve sports.
The funding for the grants is primarily provided through a combination of International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Olympic Solidarity programme funding and OFI funding, split $250,000 from the IOC and the remaining $100,000 from the OFI to allow for a greater number of scholarship awards in Ireland.
The scholarships aim to support the athletes in their preparation for Paris, and to assist on the qualification journey. Athletes were nominated by the national federations and are representative of a mix of Olympians targeting a second Games, and athletes targeting an Olympic debut.
Making the announcement, Team Ireland Chef de Mission for the Paris Olympic Games, Gavin Noble, said,
“Thirty-five individual nominations were received from nineteen member sports for the Paris Scholarship fund, and today we are delighted to formally announce our Paris scholars and of course our support of the women’s hockey team. In the Tokyo cycle, twelve scholarships were awarded, and from those nine athletes qualified for the Games, with two finalists at the Tokyo Olympics. Naturally, we are aiming to build on those results. Through the support of the International Olympic Committee Solidarity Fund, and with the additional backing of Permanent TSB, Allianz and Deloitte, we are able to fund more athletes, to a higher level than ever before, and it is very much part of our performance and commercial strategy that we continue to move in this direction.”
Details of all recipients are below:
TEAM GRANT – $100,000
Women’s Hockey Team
The Women’s Hockey Team were awarded the team grant of $100,000 to assist with their preparations towards Paris 2024. The team consists of both experienced players who competed in the Tokyo Olympics, and emerging talent looking to make their Olympic debut in Paris.
INDIVIDUAL GRANTS – $15,000 PER PERSON
| Rhasidat Adeleke | Athletics | Dublin |
| Nhat Nguyen | Badminton | Dublin |
| Adam Hession | Boxing | Galway |
| Daina Moorhouse | Boxing | Wicklow |
| Noel Hendrick | Canoeing | Kildare |
| Lara Gillespie | Cycling | Wicklow |
| Ciara McGing | Diving | London/Donegal/Mayo |
| Olivia Mehaffey | Golf | Armagh |
| Sive Brassil | Modern Pentathlon | Galway |
| Alison Bergin | Rowing | Cork |
| Jake McCarthy | Rowing | Cork |
| Aoife Hopkins | Sailing | Dublin |
| Eve McMahon | Sailing | Dublin |
| Paddy Johnston | Swimming | Down |
| Jack Woolley | Taekwondo | Dublin |
