Team Ireland - Paris 2024 Qualification Tracker

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Squad announcement for world athletics relays  

 

Our big names all there on the women’s sides including Adeleke, Mawdsley, Healy and Becker. Interestingly Becker only listed as reserve for the mixed. The men include Tom Barr, Cillin Greene and Jack Raftery. Stalwart of the mixed team Chris O’Donnell is only listed as a travelling reserve

 

No Men’s team so we have 4 men and 7 women travelling. 

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So far today in the rowing finals;

 

Keogh/Murtagh silver behind the Dutch. They looked OK so probably still in the top 4/5 but without Australia and Romania we won’t know if they’re likely to contend for a medal yet

 

Doyle/Lynch went off very slow but had an insane finish to grab bronze. They’ll need to be more consistent to challenge in Paris

 

The women’s four were miles off two GB boats and finished in 4th as the Dutch eased away. Still a good regatta for them though and I’m more confident they’ll qualify now 

 

Timoney/Corrigan win the B final and let’s hope the illness/injury is behind them 

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Gracenote medal predictions for Ireland

 

Gold 

McCarthy/O’Donovan

McClenaghan

 

Silver

Kelly Harrington

Cian O’Connor

Wiffen 800m

 

Bronze

Rory McIlroy

Wiffen 1500m

 

 

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Rowing team for the European champs 

 

Lightweight double

Paul O’Donovan/Fintan McCarthy

 

lightweight  single 

Jake McCarthy

 

openweight single

Paul O’Donovan (!)

 

lightweight single 

Mags Cremen

Openweight double

Zoe Hyde/Alison Bergin

 

Aoife Casey isn’t fit. Hyde was injured for World Cup 1 so they’re in here

 

It’ll be interesting to see if POD does the heavyweight single and the LW double…

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Why don't Ireland ever enter the European qualification regatta? Is it a case of 'If they can't do it via final qualifier then they're not good enough?'

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  On 4/23/2024 at 9:35 PM, duineeile said:

Why don't Ireland ever enter the European qualification regatta? Is it a case of 'If they can't do it via final qualifier then they're not good enough?'

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The continental qualifier is only open to nations that qualified 0 or 1 boat at the World Championships. Ireland qualified 6 boats there so we aren’t eligible to compete.

Edited April 23, 2024 by OlympicIRL

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Ah yeah was thinking it must be something like that! Makes sense 

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  On 4/22/2024 at 12:56 PM, dodge said:

Rowing team for the European champs 

 

Lightweight double

Paul O’Donovan/Fintan McCarthy

 

lightweight  single 

Jake McCarthy

 

openweight single

Paul O’Donovan (!)

 

lightweight single 

Mags Cremen

Openweight double

Zoe Hyde/Alison Bergin

 

Aoife Casey isn’t fit. Hyde was injured for World Cup 1 so they’re in here

 

It’ll be interesting to see if POD does the heavyweight single and the LW double…

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No lightweight doubles. Presume an injury/illness to Fintan. Paul still down for the heavyweight singles

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Confirmed by Fintan that he’s not 100%. Same with Aoife Casey. I’m told it’s not serious and there’s no worries for the rest of the season 

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  On 4/24/2024 at 6:37 PM, dodge said:

Confirmed by Fintan that he’s not 100%. Same with Aoife Casey. I’m told it’s not serious and there’s no worries for the rest of the season 

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Not ideal of course but that’s a relief to hear it’s a minor issue.