Ireland National Thread

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As of 2 January 2020...

 

47 quotas earned in 11 different sports

 

Sports with quotas earned in alphabetical order:

 

Athletics - 5

 

• Ciara Mageean (1,500m)
• Alex Wright (20k walk)
• Brendan Boyce (50k walk)
• Fionnuala McCormack (marathon)
• Paul Pollock (marathon)

 

Others that would get place by virtue of their current ranking would be Thomas Barr, Mark English and Phil Healy. Of the highly rated juniors; high jumper Sommer Lecky and heptathlete Kate O'Connor have the best chance of making the early step up.

 

Canoeing - Slalom - 1

 

• boat (men's C1)

 

Ireland are unlikely to qualify any more boats in canoeing with our best sprint canoeist being Jenny Egan who specializes in longer (non-Olympic) distances. Robert Hendrick qualified the boat but himself and Liam Jegou are set to fight for the ticket to Tokyo.

 

Cycling - Road - 3

 

• Men's Road race (3 quotas)
• Men's ITT (1 quota)

 

With several riders at world tour level, the fight for Olympic spots will be on next year.

 

Equestrian - 9

 

• Eventing (team with 3 individuals)
• Dressage(team with 3 individuals)
• Show jumping (team and 3 individuals)

 

Finally a full Irish quota!

 

Gymnastics (artistic) - 1

 

• Rhys McClenaghan

 

Rhys's bronze medal performance in the pommel final at the world championships was enough to earn him a spot. Megan Smith is first reserve on the womens side

 

Field Hockey - 16

 

• Women's team

 

The women's team have qualified for the first time. Could they repeat their amazing World Cup medal winning performance from 2018?

 

Modern Pentathlon - 1

 

• Natalya Coyle

 

Natalya will be hoping for her third top 10 placing in the Olympics in Tokyo. Arthur Lannigan O'Keefe could medal if everything goes right but he struggled with injuries. He needs to have a great start to 2020 to shoot up the rankings.

 

Rowing - 7

 

• Women's Single sculls - w1x
• Women's pair - w2-
• Men's double sculls - m2x
• Men's lightweightt double sculls - lm2x

 

Whoever is with Paul O'Donovan in the lightweight double sculls will be a medal favourite in Tokyo. Paul has won the last two world championships, one with his Rio medal winning brother Gary and the other with newcomer Fintan McCarthy. Sanita Puspure is double world champion and only injury or horrendous luck will stop her from medaling in Tokyo. The men's double won silver this year and are improving all the time. Ireland will try and qualify a women's 4 next year.

 

Sailing - 1

 

• Laser Radial

 

Aisling Kelleher won the quota but Rio medalist Annalise Murphy has dropped her 49er FX plans to try and get in the Radial boat for Tokyo. The 49er crew and a couple of Laser individuals have one more shot at qualifying this year.

 

Swimming - 2

 

• Darragh Greene (100m, 200m breast)
• Shane Ryan (100m back)

 

Irish swimming is one of the only sports that have stricter rules than the IOC for qualifying so neither of these may actually go. Greene achieved his time at the worlds so has to get close to it at the Irish nationals in 2020 to validate it. Everyone else, including Ryan, has to earn the OQT at the Irish nationals. Brendan Hyland and Mona McSharry look the two most likely to add to the team in individual events but swimmimg Ireland is aiming to bring a 4x100m medley relay team and is currently OK in the ranks

 

Taekwondo - 1

 

• Jack Woolley

 

After being so close in 2016, Jack qualified through the olympic rankings and is consistently in the top 10 in the world.

 

Likely/possible quotas in these sports

 

Badminton

Nhat Nguyen is currently in a rankings spot. The mixed doubles of Sam and Chloe Magee are outside the top 16 but may sneak in. 

 

Boxing

Traditionally our strongest Olympic sport. Ireland will be hoping to have at least 8 of the 13 quotas available next year. Our women's team is particularly strong and they'll hope to win medals next year. The European qualifiers start in march

 

Cycling

On the track we may qualify 2 women (madison rankings) and maybe one man (omnium). The qualification criteria is complicated and there are a couple of world cup events to go.

 

Diving

Oliver Dingley and Clare Cryan have hopes for next year through the world cup series.

 

Golf

Ireland will qualify 4 for golf next year with McIlroy and Lowry being medal contenders on their day in the men's. Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow will go in the women's event

 

Judo

We currently have 2 judoka in ranking positions; Ben Fletcher and Megan Fletcher. Nathan Burns is just outside the cut off in the rankings

 

 

Triathlon

Russell White and Carolyn Hayes are our best hope of qualifying for Tokyo and both are just inside the quota spots at the moment.  Hayes was 6th at the European Championships in May and is a relative newcomer to the sport. She'll easily shoot up the rankings list with performances like that. The ranking period ends in May 2020.

 

It's unlikely we'll have qualifiers in  other sports but  maybe the rugby sevens team can surprise us or someone new comes along next year!

 

 

 

Edited February 12, 2020 by dodge

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TEAM  is now 48 as Stephen Scullion is added to the list having finished 5th in the IAAF gold label Houston marathon.

 

Our "track and field" team is now up to 6 with only one track qualifier, and no field qualifiers 

Edited February 12, 2020 by dodge

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In Canoe Slalom, Liam Jegou has won the selection contest and will travel to his first Olympics in July.

 

In sailing, Annalise Murphy was by far the best of the Irish in the recent first world cup event. She's on course to win the Laser Radial selection

 

One last chance for our Laser and 49er crews to qualify. 2 spots available for Laser while only one for 49er. 

 

The 49ers are listed as second alternates though so may have a back door opportunity if 2 qualified crews pull out

Edited February 19, 2020 by dodge

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Team  is now at 49 with Kevin Seaward running the second fastest marathon by an Irish man to become the 3rd man to reach the qualifying standard. Himself and Pollock through time, Scullion through his 5th place in Houston

 

Any more and a selection will have to be made

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As of 3 March 2020...

 

53 quotas earned in 11 different sports

 

Sports with quotas earned in alphabetical order:

 

Athletics - 7

 

• Ciara Mageean (1,500m)
• Alex Wright (20k walk)
• Brendan Boyce (50k walk)
• Fionnuala McCormack (marathon)
• Paul Pollock (marathon)
• Stephen Scullion (marathon)
• Kevin Seaward (marathon)

 

Others that would get place by virtue of their current ranking would be Thomas Barr, Mark English and Phil Healy. Big spring ahead for them and some others

 

Canoeing - Slalom - 1

 

• Liam Jegou (men's C1)

 

Ireland are unlikely to qualify any more boats in canoeing with our best sprint canoeist being Jenny Egan who specializes in longer (non-Olympic) distances. Robert Hendrick qualified the boat but Liam Jegou won the selection.

 

Cycling - Road - 3

 

• Men's Road race (3 quotas)
• Men's ITT (1 quota)

 

With several riders at world tour level, the fight for Olympic spots will be on next year.

 

Cycling - Track - 4

 

• Men's madison (2 quotas) + Omnium
• Women's madison (2 quotas) + Omnium

 

With both madison crews qualifying, Ire;and will have it's largest track cycling team since qualification began. Mark Downey and Felix English look set for the mens team. The womens team could be any 2 from Lydia Boylan, Lydia Gurley, Shannon McCurley or Emily Kay

 

Equestrian - 9

 

• Eventing (team with 3 individuals)
• Dressage(team with 3 individuals)
• Show jumping (team and 3 individuals)

 

Finally a full Irish quota!

 

Gymnastics (artistic) - 1

 

• Rhys McClenaghan

 

Rhys's bronze medal performance in the pommel final at the world championships was enough to earn him a spot. Megan Smith is first reserve on the womens side

 

Field Hockey - 16

 

• Women's team

 

The women's team have qualified for the first time. Could they repeat their amazing World Cup medal winning performance from 2018?

 

Modern Pentathlon - 1

 

• Natalya Coyle

 

Natalya will be hoping for her third top 10 placing in the Olympics in Tokyo. Arthur Lannigan O'Keefe could medal if everything goes right but he struggled with injuries. He finished 3rd in the opening world cup of the year

 

Rowing - 7

 

• Women's Single sculls - w1x
• Women's pair - w2-
• Men's double sculls - m2x
• Men's lightweightt double sculls - lm2x

 

Whoever is with Paul O'Donovan in the lightweight double sculls will be a medal favourite in Tokyo. Paul has won the last two world championships, one with his Rio medal winning brother Gary and the other with newcomer Fintan McCarthy. Sanita Puspure is double world champion and only injury or horrendous luck will stop her from medaling in Tokyo. The men's double won silver this year and are improving all the time. Ireland will try and qualify a women's 4 next year.

 

Sailing - 1

 

• Laser Radial

 

Aisling Kelleher won the quota but Rio medalist Annalise Murphy has dropped her 49er FX plans to try and get in the Radial boat for Tokyo. The 49er crew and a couple of Laser individuals have one more shot at qualifying this year.

 

Swimming - 2

 

• Darragh Greene (100m, 200m breast)
• Shane Ryan (100m back)

 

Irish swimming is one of the only sports that have stricter rules than the IOC for qualifying so neither of these may actually go. Greene achieved his time at the worlds so has to get close to it at the Irish nationals in 2020 to validate it. Everyone else, including Ryan, has to earn the OQT at the Irish nationals. Brendan Hyland and Mona McSharry look the two most likely to add to the team in individual events but swimmimg Ireland is aiming to bring a 4x100m medley relay team and is currently OK in the ranks

 

Taekwondo - 1

 

• Jack Woolley

 

After being so close in 2016, Jack qualified through the olympic rankings and is consistently in the top 10 in the world.

 

Likely/possible quotas in these sports

 

Badminton

Nhat Nguyen is currently in a rankings spot. The mixed doubles of Sam and Chloe Magee are outside the top 16 but may sneak in. 

 

Boxing

Traditionally our strongest Olympic sport. Ireland will be hoping to have at least 8 of the 13 quotas available. Our women's team is particularly strong and they'll hope to win medals next year. The European qualifiers start in March

 

Diving

Oliver Dingley and Clare Cryan have hopes for this year through the world cup series.

 

Golf

Ireland will qualify 4 for golf next year with McIlroy and Lowry being medal contenders on their day in the men's. Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow will go in the women's event

 

Judo

We currently have 2 judoka in ranking positions; Ben Fletcher and Megan Fletcher. Nathan Burns is just outside the cut off in the rankings

 

 

Triathlon

Russell White and Carolyn Hayes are our best hope of qualifying for Tokyo and both are just inside the quota spots at the moment.  Hayes was 6th at the European Championships in May and is a relative newcomer to the sport. She'll easily shoot up the rankings list with performances like that. The ranking period ends in May 2020.

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, dodge said:

As of 3 March 2020...

 

53 quotas earned in 11 different sports

 

Sports with quotas earned in alphabetical order:

 

Athletics - 7

 

• Ciara Mageean (1,500m)
• Alex Wright (20k walk)
• Brendan Boyce (50k walk)
• Fionnuala McCormack (marathon)
• Paul Pollock (marathon)
• Stephen Scullion (marathon)
• Kevin Seaward (marathon)

 

Others that would get place by virtue of their current ranking would be Thomas Barr, Mark English and Phil Healy. Big spring ahead for them and some others

 

Canoeing - Slalom - 1

 

• Liam Jegou (men's C1)

 

Ireland are unlikely to qualify any more boats in canoeing with our best sprint canoeist being Jenny Egan who specializes in longer (non-Olympic) distances. Robert Hendrick qualified the boat but Liam Jegou won the selection.

 

Cycling - Road - 3

 

• Men's Road race (3 quotas)
• Men's ITT (1 quota)

 

With several riders at world tour level, the fight for Olympic spots will be on next year.

 

Cycling - Track - 4

 

• Men's madison (2 quotas) + Omnium
• Women's madison (2 quotas) + Omnium

 

With both madison crews qualifying, Ire;and will have it's largest track cycling team since qualification began. Mark Downey and Felix English look set for the mens team. The womens team could be any 2 from Lydia Boylan, Lydia Gurley, Shannon McCurley or Emily Kay

 

Equestrian - 9

 

• Eventing (team with 3 individuals)
• Dressage(team with 3 individuals)
• Show jumping (team and 3 individuals)

 

Finally a full Irish quota!

 

Gymnastics (artistic) - 1

 

• Rhys McClenaghan

 

Rhys's bronze medal performance in the pommel final at the world championships was enough to earn him a spot. Megan Smith is first reserve on the womens side

 

Field Hockey - 16

 

• Women's team

 

The women's team have qualified for the first time. Could they repeat their amazing World Cup medal winning performance from 2018?

 

Modern Pentathlon - 1

 

• Natalya Coyle

 

Natalya will be hoping for her third top 10 placing in the Olympics in Tokyo. Arthur Lannigan O'Keefe could medal if everything goes right but he struggled with injuries. He finished 3rd in the opening world cup of the year

 

Rowing - 7

 

• Women's Single sculls - w1x
• Women's pair - w2-
• Men's double sculls - m2x
• Men's lightweightt double sculls - lm2x

 

Whoever is with Paul O'Donovan in the lightweight double sculls will be a medal favourite in Tokyo. Paul has won the last two world championships, one with his Rio medal winning brother Gary and the other with newcomer Fintan McCarthy. Sanita Puspure is double world champion and only injury or horrendous luck will stop her from medaling in Tokyo. The men's double won silver this year and are improving all the time. Ireland will try and qualify a women's 4 next year.

 

Sailing - 1

 

• Laser Radial

 

Aisling Kelleher won the quota but Rio medalist Annalise Murphy has dropped her 49er FX plans to try and get in the Radial boat for Tokyo. The 49er crew and a couple of Laser individuals have one more shot at qualifying this year.

 

Swimming - 2

 

• Darragh Greene (100m, 200m breast)
• Shane Ryan (100m back)

 

Irish swimming is one of the only sports that have stricter rules than the IOC for qualifying so neither of these may actually go. Greene achieved his time at the worlds so has to get close to it at the Irish nationals in 2020 to validate it. Everyone else, including Ryan, has to earn the OQT at the Irish nationals. Brendan Hyland and Mona McSharry look the two most likely to add to the team in individual events but swimmimg Ireland is aiming to bring a 4x100m medley relay team and is currently OK in the ranks

 

Taekwondo - 1

 

• Jack Woolley

 

After being so close in 2016, Jack qualified through the olympic rankings and is consistently in the top 10 in the world.

 

Likely/possible quotas in these sports

 

Badminton

Nhat Nguyen is currently in a rankings spot. The mixed doubles of Sam and Chloe Magee are outside the top 16 but may sneak in. 

 

Boxing

Traditionally our strongest Olympic sport. Ireland will be hoping to have at least 8 of the 13 quotas available. Our women's team is particularly strong and they'll hope to win medals next year. The European qualifiers start in March

 

Diving

Oliver Dingley and Clare Cryan have hopes for this year through the world cup series.

 

Golf

Ireland will qualify 4 for golf next year with McIlroy and Lowry being medal contenders on their day in the men's. Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow will go in the women's event

 

Judo

We currently have 2 judoka in ranking positions; Ben Fletcher and Megan Fletcher. Nathan Burns is just outside the cut off in the rankings

 

 

Triathlon

Russell White and Carolyn Hayes are our best hope of qualifying for Tokyo and both are just inside the quota spots at the moment.  Hayes was 6th at the European Championships in May and is a relative newcomer to the sport. She'll easily shoot up the rankings list with performances like that. The ranking period ends in May 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

I would be very hopeful that we can break the 80 mark for the team but a lot depends on how many qualify in Athletics. Currently we have 6 people inside the rankings but that will change when the competition gets serious later in the year. Sadly the Magees have fallen dow the rankings badly since Autumn and from being inside the qualifying mark have now 3 or 4 countries ahead of them.

The big issue now is how many qualification events are going to fall to the Corona virus.

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Well, following the historic qualification of the first ever Irish dressage team, the postponement of the Olympics was undoubtedly a heartbreak for Judy Reynolds.

 

It is indeed very questionable whether Vancouver will be fit enough to compete at the age of 19, but Judy remains hopeful...

 

http://www.eurodressage.com/2020/03/30/olympics-2021-too-late-judy-reynolds-vancouver-k

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After a year away...

 

A quick update to say that we've officially added one boxer (Brendan Irvine) and unofficially another (Kurt Walker will be in through the rankings).  No one else but a lot more athletes are in qualifying spots and we'll hopefully add 2 sailors this week

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Additions in the last month

 

Sailing - 49er - Probably Dickson & Waddilove

 

Swimming - 100m Breast - Mona McSharry

Swimming - 800m free - Daniel Wiffen

 

Athletics - marathon - Aoife Cooke

 

Next month sees Diving and Rowing with chances 

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3 hours ago, dodge said:

Additions in the last month

 

Sailing - 49er - Probably Dickson & Waddilove

 

Swimming - 100m Breast - Mona McSharry

Swimming - 800m free - Daniel Wiffen

 

Athletics - marathon - Aoife Cooke

 

Next month sees Diving and Rowing with chances 

 

The swimming European Championships coming up in May is also another big chance for a few of the swimmers who are very close the the FINA A time to make the team as well as a couple of relay teams who could strengthen their chance of qualification.