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Ireland national rugby sevens team qualified for the first time at the Olympics by winning the gold medal at the 2020 Final Olympic Qualification Tournament in Monaco, defeating the favorites France in the final 28–19. [31] Team roster. Ireland's 12-man squad plus one alternate was named on 6 July 2021. [32] Head coach: Anthony Eddy
The team also surpassed the Atlanta 1996 record of 3 Olympics golds in a games, including both a first Olympic medal and Olympic gold medal in Gymnastics as well as a first ever gold for the men in Swimming. The 2024 Paris games also marked 100 years since Ireland's first appearance at the summer games.
The women's field hockey tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was the eleventh edition of the field hockey event for women at the Summer Olympic Games. It was held from 24 July to 6 August 2021. All games were played at the Oi Hockey Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy won gold while Fiona Murtagh, Eimear Lambe, Emily Hegarty and Aifric Keogh won bronze at the Olympics. Ireland’s medal heroes return home from Tokyo Skip to ...
Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals, surpassing its gold medal tally of 16 at both the 1964 and 2004 summer editions. [9] Athletes from that nation also won 58 medals overall, which eclipsed its record of 41 overall medals won at the previous Summer Olympics. [10] American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the Games with five ...
Kellie Anne Harrington OLY (born 11 December 1989) [2] is an Irish retired amateur boxer.During her career she was double Olympic gold medalist, winning at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and 2018 World champion.
The U.S. won silver in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and bronze in Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021 after it was postponed a year by the COVID-19 pandemic. In all, the USWNT has seven medals at the ...
Ireland entered ten boxers (four men and the maximum six women) into the Olympic tournament. Tokyo 2020 Olympians Michaela Walsh (women's featherweight), Aoife O'Rourke (women's middleweight), and defending champion Kellie Harrington, along with two other rookies (Dean Clancy and Jack Marley), secured the spots on the Irish squad in their ...