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Irish sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2023 Sailing World Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, 2023 49er European Championship in Vilamoura, Portugal, and 2024 ILCA 6 World Championships in Mar del Plata, Argentina. The team was announced on 18 June 2024. [43] Medal race events
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 2020.
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 ...
A daily breakdown of which countries are leading the overall medal count in the 2024 Paris Olympics. ... Team USA got off to a relatively slow start on Day 1 but nabbed its first individual gold ...
Each medal weighed 455–529 g (16–19 oz), had a diameter of 85 mm (3.3 in) and was 9.2 mm (0.36 in) thick. [21] The gold medals were made with 98.8 percent silver and 1.13 percent gold, while the bronze medals were made up with copper, zinc, and tin. [22]
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.
O'Donovan and McCarthy once again represented Ireland at the 2024 Summer Olympics, claiming their second successive gold medal in the lightweight double sculls and also becoming the only Irish Olympian to medal at three games. [40] Just a few weeks after his Olympic success O'Donovan won gold in the Single Sculls at the World Championships in ...
He was the second Irish swimming medalist at the 2024 games and the first individual Olympic Gold medal winner from Northern Ireland since 1972. [13] [14] [15] On 4 August, Wiffen won the bronze medal in the 1500m freestyle final, with a time of 14:39.63.