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The Irish equestrian team for the Olympics has been announced and the big news is that the dressage team has been withdrawn :(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

 

 

 

 

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Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team

 

 

 

:IRL IRELAND :IRL

 

94

athletes

53

men athletes

41

women athletes

50

events

18

sports

 

 

 

NEW QUALIFIER:

 

2 GOLF NAME QUALIFICATION
Men's Individual Stroke Play 074006vvxx33vxxfo9on03.png McILROY Rory Olympic Golf Ranking, 6th Place
Men's Individual Stroke Play 074006vvxx33vxxfo9on03.png 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.

 

 

 

 

shamrock-6-1.jpg

 

Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team

 

 

 

:IRL IRELAND :IRL

 

95

athletes

53

men athletes

42

women athletes

51

events

19

sports

 

 

 

NEW QUALIFIER:

 

1 DIVING NAME QUALIFICATION
Women's 10m Platform 073953j4889qqs6a89ss2q.png 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.

 

 

 

 

shamrock-6-1.jpg

 

Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team

 

 

 

:IRL IRELAND :IRL

 

97

athletes

53

men athletes

44

women athletes

53

events

19

sports

 

 

 

 

NEW QUALIFIER:

1 EQUESTRIAN

NAME QUALIFICATION
Individual Eventing 073958os0tqqyyj40qyqmq.png HOLSTEIN Heike  Sambuca Received reallocated quota after Irish dressage team withdrew (pending Appeal)

 

1 SWIMMING NAME QUALIFICATION
Women's 100m Backstroke 074004qzeiewtibzm4nmtt.png 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.

 

 

 

 

shamrock-6-1.jpg

 

Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team

 

 

 

:IRL IRELAND :IRL

 

100

athletes

54

men athletes

46

women athletes

56

events

20

sports

 

 

 

 

NEW QUALIFIER:

2 TRIATHLON NAME QUALIFICATION
Men's Individual 074038u8zi6aguc4p60ozc.png WHITE Russell ITU Individual Olympic Qualification Ranking - Currently Ranked 64th and Occupying Quota Position in ITU Simulation
Women's Individual 074038u8zi6aguc4p60ozc.png 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 074004qzeiewtibzm4nmtt.png 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.

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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 :d 

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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? 

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