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Ireland sent a record 134 athletes to the Games, across 15 sports. 2024 also marked the centenary of Ireland's first independent appearance at the 1924 Olympic Games, also in Paris, after the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922.
The Irish have a long established record of encouraging athletes with direct Irish heritage to represent the nation under 'grandparent' citizenship rules, and the Irish Diaspora, including the large number of Irish heritage people in Great Britain, is explicitly recognised in the Irish constitution. The right of people form Northern Ireland to ...
She was selected to represent Ireland in the 5000 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, placing seventeenth overall. [11] That month, she lowered her personal best over 5000 metres again, to 15:20.93 in Oslo. [12] She won the 5000 metres title at the Irish Championships in Dublin in June 2024, running a time of 15:44.80. [13]
In 2024, the wide, wide world of sports saw repeat champions, first-time titlists, a grand Paris summer and some epic fails. The winners and losers:
In June 2024, she placed second behind Sophie Becker in the 400 metres at the Irish Athletics Championships. [14] In July 2024, she was officially selected for the relay pool at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [15]
PARIS (AP) — Red, white, and blue. And green. American tennis player Danielle Collins isn’t just getting support from her own country at the Paris Olympics.Irish fans have adopted her as one ...
Sophie Becker (born 16 May 1997) is an Irish athlete who competes as in the sprint events and mainly specialises in the 400 m.. She has represented Ireland at the Olympic Games and World Championships, and won a silver medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships with the women's 4 x 400 metres relay team which set a new Irish national record.
With just 100 days to go until the start of the Olympic Games in Paris some of Northern Ireland’s finest athletes are preparing to showcase their talents on the grandest stage in sport.