Ireland National Thread

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The Irish women's hockey team for the Olympics was announced today:

 

https://olympics.ie/hockey-team-announcement/

 

1 Ayeisha McFerran (GK)

2 Chloe Watkins 

3 Hannah Matthews 

4 Sarah Torrans 

5 Nicci Daly 

6 Roisin Upton 

7 Hannah McLoughlin 

8 Deirdre Duke 

9 Katie Mullan 

10 Shirley McCay 

11 Sarah Hawkshaw 

12 Lena Tice 

13 Naomi Carroll 

14 Lizzie Holden 

15 Sarah McAuley 

16 Anna O’Flanagan 

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RESERVE - Michelle Carey 

RESERVE -  Zara Malseed 

RESERVE GOALKEEPER Liz Murphy GK

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The Irish equestrian team for the Olympics has been announced and the big news is that the dressage team has been withdrawn

At most they can only hope to receive a reallocated quota in individual dressage but it's not certain either. We were never going to trouble the medals anyway but it's sad that our historic first team dressage qualification has come to this.

 

However, the showjumping and eventing squads have been named....meet the team

 

 

JUMPING:

 

Bertram Allen with Pacino Amiro

Darragh Kenny with VDL Cartello

Cian O’Connor with Kilkenny

 

Reserves:

Shane Sweetnam with Karlin Van’t Vennehof

Michael Duffy with Zilton SL Z (

 

EVENTING:

 

Cathal Daniels with Rioghan Rua

Sarah Ennis with Horseware Woodcourt Garrison

Sam Watson with Tullabeg Flamenco

 

Reserves:

Austin O’Connor with Colorado Blue

Joseph Murphy with Cesar V

 

 

 

 

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QUALIFICATION UPDATE

 

 

Updated after the official confirmation that Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry have qualified for the Olympics in men's golf and the removal of the Irish dressage team quotas.

 

We now have 94 athlete quotas (53 men and 41 women) in 50 events, across 18 different sports.

 

 

 

 

 

Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team

 

 

 

IRELAND

 

94 athletes	53 men athletes
	41 women athletes
50 events	18 sports

 

 

 

NEW QUALIFIER:

 

2 GOLF		NAME	QUALIFICATION
Men's Individual Stroke Play		McILROY Rory	Olympic Golf Ranking, 6th Place
Men's Individual Stroke Play		LOWRY Shane	Olympic Golf Ranking, 18th Place

 

 

The full qualification tracker can be found here:

 

 

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QUALIFICATION UPDATE

 

 

Updated with confirmation of the historic qualification of Tanya Watson who will become the first female diver to represent Ireland at an Olympic Games

 

We now have 95 athlete quotas (53 men and 42 women) in 51 events, across 19 different sports.

 

 

 

 

 

Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team

 

 

 

IRELAND

 

95 athletes	53 men athletes
	42 women athletes
51 events	19 sports

 

 

 

NEW QUALIFIER:

 

1 DIVING		NAME	QUALIFICATION
Women's 10m Platform		WATSON Tanya	2021 FINA World Cup, 14th Place

 

 

The full qualification tracker can be found here:

 

 

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QUALIFICATION UPDATE

 

 

Updated with the qualification of Danielle Hill in women's 100m backstroke after swimming the OQT standard at the Irish Performance Meeting today.

I have also reinstated Heike Holstein in Dressage who receives an individual quota spot after the withdrawal of the team (pending appeal).

 

We now have 97 athlete quotas (53 men and 44 women) in 53 events, across 19 different sports.

 

 

 

 

 

Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team

 

 

 

IRELAND

 

97 athletes	53 men athletes
	44 women athletes
53 events	19 sports

 

 

 

 

NEW QUALIFIER:

1 EQUESTRIAN		NAME	QUALIFICATION
Individual Eventing		HOLSTEIN Heike  Sambuca	Received reallocated quota after Irish dressage team withdrew (pending Appeal)

 

1 SWIMMING		NAME	QUALIFICATION
Women's 100m Backstroke		HILL Danielle	By OQT Entry Standard

 

 

 

The full qualification tracker can be found here:

 

 

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QUALIFICATION UPDATE

 

 

Updated after the official confirmation today that triathletes Carolyn Hayes and Russell White have qualified for the Olympics and have been selected for Team Ireland.

 

At the Irish Performance Meet in Dublin, Ellen Walshe became the latest swimmer to achieve the OQT standard with her new national record in the women's 200m individual medley. Her selection is not yet certain though as the Swim Ireland selection policy stated that only swimmers who went within 1.5% of the OQT standard at the nationals in April would be eligible to qualify from this meet. However, it is most likely they won't stick strictly to that policy as Ellen went comfortably inside the FINA A time today. Either way she is eligible for a quota until Swim Ireland says otherwise so we will put her into the qualified basket for now.

 

That means we now have broken the 100 mark (!!!) in terms of athlete quotas (54 men and 46 women) with representatives in 56 events, across 20 different sports.

 

 

 

 

 

Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team

 

 

 

IRELAND

 

100 athletes	54 men athletes
	46 women athletes
56 events	20 sports

 

 

 

 

NEW QUALIFIER:

2 TRIATHLON		NAME	QUALIFICATION
Men's Individual		WHITE Russell	ITU Individual Olympic Qualification Ranking - Currently Ranked 64th and Occupying Quota Position in ITU Simulation
Women's Individual		HAYES Carolyn	ITU World Triathlon Ranking - Currently Ranked 32nd and Occupying Quota Position in ITU Simulation

 

1 SWIMMING		NAME	QUALIFICATION
Women's 200m Individual Medley		WALSHE Ellen	By OQT Entry Standard

 

 

 

The full qualification tracker can be found here:

 

 

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Before the world ranking qualifications close on Tuesday night, the following Irish athletes look to be safely inside the quota places and should be on the plane to Tokyo:

 

• Leon Reid (Men's 200m - though it’s uncertain yet if he will be selected)
• David Kenny (Men's 20km Walk)
• Phil Healy (Women's 200m)
• Nadia Power (Women's 800m)
• Sarah Healy (Women's 1500m)
• Sarah Lavin (Women's 100m Hurdles)

 

 

Then we have a group of athletes where it is touch and go whether they will make the cut:

 

• Marcus Lawler (Men's 200m - not in good form but looking like he might scrape into the quota places, but it will go down to the wire)
• Mark English (Men's 800m - hanging on to one of the last quota places but has one final chance of getting an Auto Q on Tuesday in Spain)
• Andrew Coscoran (Men's 1500m - currently in 42nd with only 45 making the cut. He has a last ditch attempt to make the Auto Q in Lucerne on Tuesday but that also means other rivals will also be chasing the Auto Q time. I have a feeling he will just make it but it could go either way)
• Phil Healy (Women's 400m - obviously not a disaster for her if she doesn't make it since she will have the 200m and the mixed relay to fall back on. She is currently hanging on for a place in the 400m but could be overtaken once the rankings are updated).
• Síofra Cléirigh-Buttner (Women's 800m)
• Louise Shanahan (Women's 800m - both Síofra and Louise seem to have edged out their compatriot Georgie Hartigan for the qualifying places but they are far from safe and both were on either side of the cut-off line before this weekend. It's too close to call at the moment. There could be re-allocations which could help their cause if some nations and athletes decline their quota but still it is not going to be clear until the very last moment).

 

 

There are a couple more with a faint glimmer of home (example: Tobin, Hartigan, O'Connor - needs withdrawals above her) but really I think the remaining quotas will come from the list above.

 

For the mixed 4x400m relay, it looks like Cillín Greene and Chris O'Donnell are odds on to make the team as well as Phil Healy. The other 3 places are still up in the air.

[dodge 1,024]

There’s only 4 places for the relay. Not 6. There’ll be non-quota alternates named probably but they won’t be part of the official squad

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3 minutes ago, dodge said:

There’s only 4 places for the relay. Not 6. There’ll be non-quota alternates named probably but they won’t be part of the official squad

Oh yes I forgot about that. Though on the coverage of the nationals Derval O’Rourke and Rob Heffernan were talking about 3 places up for grabs for men and women so they confused me as well  

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42 minutes ago, dodge said:

There’s only 4 places for the relay. Not 6. There’ll be non-quota alternates named probably but they won’t be part of the official squad

Can you name 4 and pick two more that have qualified for individual events?