Ireland at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Template:Infobox Olympics Ireland Ireland will compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics. It will be the 19th Summer Games that Ireland has contested as a nation.

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

As of 21 July, Ireland have qualified 16 Athletes in 17 different events.

Men's competition

100 & 200 metres

• Paul Hession

400 metres

• David Gillick

800 metres

• Thomas Chamney

1,500, 5,000m, 10,000m

• Alistair Cragg (will choose event(s) at a later date)

20k Walk

• Robert Heffernan

50k Walk

• Jamie Costin
• Colin Griffin

Marathon

• Martin Fagan

Women's competition

100m hurdles

• Derval O'Rourke

400 metres

• Joanne Cuddihy

400 metres hurdles

• Michelle Carey

3000 metre steeplechase

• Roisin McGettigan
• Fionnula Britton

20K Walk

• Olive Loughnane

Marathon

• Pauline Curley

Hammer

• Eileen O'Keeffe

Badminton

Main articles: Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Scott Evans	Singles	Zwiebler (GER)

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Chloe Magee	Singles	Tolmoff (EST)

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Ireland qualified five boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. Barnes became the first when he qualified at the World Championships. Nevin was the second, qualifying at the first European qualifying event. Joyce, Sutherland, and Egan brought the number to five at the 2nd European tournament.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Patrick Barnes	Light flyweight
John Joe Nevin	Bantamweight
John Joe Joyce	Light welterweight
Darren Sutherland	Middleweight
Kenneth Egan	Light heavyweight

Canoeing

Main articles: Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Ireland qualified one competitor for the Canoeing events in the 2008 Olympics. Eoin Rheinisch qualified an Irish boat in K1 Slalom event by virtue of his 17th place finish in the 2007 World Championships. Ireland will not have any competitors in the flatwater events.

Slalom

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinal		Final		Total	Rank
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eoin Rheinisch	K-1

Cycling

Main articles: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Ireland qualified 2 places for the road race as a result of UCI rankings. Robin Seymour qualified for his 3rd men's cross country race. On June 18th, the Olympic Council of Ireland announced that david O'Loughlin had secured a place in the Individual Pursuit event of the track programme. Initially the UCI had announced a list of qualifiers that did not include O'Loughlin

Mountain Biking

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Robin Seymour	Cross-country

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Philip Deignan	Road race
Nicholas Roche	Road race

Track

Men's Individual Pursuit

• David O'Loughlin

Equestrian

Main articles: Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Eventing

Although Ireland did not qualify for the team event in the 2008 Olympics, as a result of having 5 individual riding spots qualify, they are automatically entered into the team event. Austin O'Connor, Geoffrey Curran, Louise Lyons, Niall Griffin and Patricia Ryan will compete in eventing.

Jumping

As a result of Jessica Kuerten's world ranking, Ireland earned one individual place in show jumping at the 2008 games. As Kuertan opted not to ride in the Olympics, the place has been awarded to Denis Lynch.

Fencing

Main articles: Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Siobhan Byrne secured her place in the Olympics by winning silver at the qualifying tournament in Istanbul in April.

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Siobhan Byrne	Individual sabre

Rowing

Main articles: Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Ireland has qualified two boats for the rowing events at this years Olympics. The Men's heavyweight four qualified by finishing tenth at the 2007 World Championship. The Lightweight four took the last available qualifying spot by finishing 2nd at the last Olympic qualifying regatta in Poznan in June 2008.

Men

Athlete(s)	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Alexander Kornilov Jonno Devlin Cormac Folan Sean O'Neill	Fours
Sean Casey Paul Griffin Cathal Moynihan Gearoid Towey	Lightwegiht <br\> fours

Men's Fours - Alan Martin as a travelling subsitute.

Men's Lightweight four - Richard Coakley as a travelling subsitute.

Sailing

Main articles: Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Score	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Philip Lawton Gerald Owens	470
Stephen Milne Peter O'Leary	Star

Women

Athlete	Event	Race											Score	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Ciara Peelo	Laser Radial

Open

Athlete	Event	Race											Score	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Tim Goodbody	Finn

Shooting

Main articles: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Derek Burnett will be competing in the Men's Trap.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final		Rank
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Derek Burnett	Trap

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Andrew Bree: Men's 100 & 200 metres breaststroke and Men's 200 metres individual medley

Aisling Cooney: Women's 100m Backstroke

Melanie Nocher: Women's 200m Backstroke and 200m Freestyle

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Emma Davis became Ireland's first ever Olympic qualifier for the Triathlon when her 15th place at the 2008 World Championships guaranteed her enough ranking points.

Women

Athlete	Event	Swim	Cycling	Run	Total	Rank
Emma Davis	Individual

See also

• Ireland at the 2008 Summer Paralympics