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The 2024 Summer Olympics was the most successful Olympics in the history of the nation, with Ireland breaking their previous record medal haul of 6 at London 2012. The team also surpassed the Atlanta 96 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 gold for ...
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from ...
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 highest number of golds achieved in a ...
The United States won the 2024 Olympics overall medal count with 126. China was second with 91, and Great Britain was third with 65. Host nation France finished with 64 total medals.
He is the 2024 pommel horse Olympic champion, the first gymnast to win an Olympic gold, or indeed, medal for Ireland. McClenaghan is also a double world champion on the pommel horse, having won gold in 2022 and 2023 , the first Irish artistic gymnast to win world championship gold, having been the first Irish gymnast to win a world medal with ...
In 2024, the wide, wide world of sports saw repeat champions, first-time titlists, a grand Paris summer and some epic fails. The winners and losers:
He qualified in first place for the 800m freestyle final and on 30 July, he won the gold medal with a new Olympic record time of 7:38.19. [12] The medal was Ireland's twelfth Olympic gold and first in swimming since the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was the second Irish swimming medalist at the 2024 games and the first individual Olympic ...
Team USA is leaving the 2024 Paris Olympics with a ton of extra hardware.. Just as they did in the 2020 Tokyo Games, American athletes took home more medals than any other country, finishing the ...