QUALIFICATION UPDATE
It's been a busy day of updates in terms of Olympic qualification with World Athletics revealing the list of athletes qualified to the Olympics by ranking, the IGF releasing the list of qualified women for the Olympic golf tournament and with the announcement of the Irish men's road cycling team.
Starting with road cycling, Nicolas Roche, Dan Martin and Eddie Dunbar have been selected to represent the country in the men's road race with Roche going also in the men's individual time-trial. It will be Roche's 4th Olympic Games!
However, in terms of new quotas, Ireland has earned 11 more quotas in athletics after the world rankings list was finalised overnight.
Although this does not yet mean that Athletics Ireland or the Olympic Federation of Ireland will nominate all of those athletes, for the purposes of this tracker I am counting them as earned quotas at this moment in time. I will only count 10 additional quotas since Phil Healy will almost certainly take part in the mixed relay event. This brings the number of athletics qualifiers to 25 and puts athletics at the top of the table in terms of Irish qualifiers by sport for the Olympic Games.
The IGF also revealed the list of women qualified to the Olympics after the qualifying period came to an end. Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow (26th and 38th respectively in the Olympic qualifying list) have both earned a quota place and both look set to represent Ireland at the Games for a second time!
That means we now have secured 114 athlete quotas (59 men and 55 women) with representatives in 65 events, across 20 different sports.
Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team
IRELAND
114
athletes
59
men athletes
55
women athletes
65
events
20
sports
ATHLETICS QUALIFIERS:
25* ATHLETICS
NAME
QUALIFICATION
Men's 200m
REID Leon
By World Ranking
LAWLER Marcus
Men's 800m
ENGLISH Mark
By Entry Standard
Men's 1500m
COSCORAN Andrew
By World Ranking
Men's 400m Hurdles
BARR Thomas
By Entry Standard
Men's 20km Race Walk
WRIGHT Alex
By Entry Standard
KENNY David
By World Ranking
Men's 50km Race Walk
BOYCE Brendan
By Entry Standard
WRIGHT Alex
By World Ranking
Men's Marathon
SCULLION Stephen
By Entry Standard
SEAWARD Kevin
By Entry Standard
POLLOCK Paul
By Entry Standard
Women's 200m
HEALY Phil
By World Ranking
Women's 400m
HEALY Phil
By World Ranking
Women's 800m
POWER Nadia
By World Ranking
CLÉIRIGH-BUTTNER Síofra
SHANAHAN Louise
Women's 1500m
MAGEEAN Ciara
By Entry Standard
HEALY Sarah
By World Ranking
Women's 100m Hurdles
LAVAN Sarah
By World Ranking
Women's 3000m Steeplechase
FINN Michelle
By Entry Standard
FLANAGAN Eilish
By World Ranking
Women's Marathon
McCORMACK Fionnuala
By Entry Standard
COOKE Aoife
By Entry Standard
Mixed 4x400m Relay
TBD
2021 World Athletics Relays, 7th Place
* Ireland is awarded 4 quotas for the Mixed 4x400m Relay. It is almost certain that the relay squad will contain Phil Healy who is already qualified in the Women's 200m and 400m. Therefore, for the purposes of being as accurate as possible, I am only counting 3 new additional quotas to fill the relay squad.
NEW QUALIFIER:
2 GOLF
NAME
QUALIFICATION
Women's Individual Stroke Play
MAGUIRE Leona
Olympic Golf Ranking, 26th Place
MEADOW Stephanie
Olympic Golf Ranking, 38th Place
The full qualification tracker can be found here: