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Template:Infobox Olympics Ireland Ireland is competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. It is the 19th Summer Games that Ireland has contested as a nation under the Olympic Council of Ireland.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Bronze Darren Sutherland Boxing Middleweight 22nd

After winning their quarter-final bouts, boxers Paddy Barnes [1] (Light flyweight), Kenny Egan [2] (Light heavyweight) and Darren Sutherland [3] (Middleweight) are guaranteed at least a bronze medal each.

Results by event

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

16 Irish athletes qualified for 17 different Olympic events in 2008.[4]

Men
Athlete Events Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Paul Hession 200 m 20.59 3 Q[5] 20.32 1 Q[6] 20.38 5 [7] Did not advance
David Gillick 400 m 45.83 4 Did not advance
Thomas Chamney 800 m 1:47.66 5 [8] Did not advance
Alistair Cragg 1500 m 3:44.90 8 Did not advance
Alistair Cragg 5000 m 13:38.57 6 Q[9]
Robert Heffernan 20 km walk 1:20:36 8
Jamie Costin 50 km walk 4:15:16 44
Colin Griffin 50 km walk DQ
Martin Fagan Marathon
Women
Athlete Events Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Derval O'Rourke 100 m hurdles 13.22 6 Did not advance
Joanne Cuddihy 400 m 53.32 6 Did not advance
Michelle Carey 400 m hurdles 57.99 7 Did not advance
Fionnula Britton 3000 m steeplechase 9:43.57 10 Did not advance
Roisin McGettigan 3000 m steeplechase 9:28.92 2 Q 9:55.89 14
Olive Loughnane 20 km walk 1:27:45 7
Pauline Curley Marathon 2:47:16 63
Eileen O'Keeffe Hammer 67.66m 10 Did not advance

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)
L 18-21 21-18 19-21 [10]   		Did not advance

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)
W 18-21 21-18 21-19 [11]   		 Jun Jae-youn (KOR)
 L 21-12 21-13 [12] 		Did not advance

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.[13] Nevin was the second, qualifying at the first European qualifying event.[14] Joyce, Sutherland, and Egan brought the number to five at the 2nd European tournament.[15]

Athlete Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final Overall
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank
Paddy Barnes Light flyweight Bye Ecuador Jose Luis Meza
W 14-8 [16] 		Poland Łukasz Maszczyk
W 11-5 		China Shiming Zou
Fri 22 7PM 		Sun 24 1:30PM
John Joe Nevin Bantamweight Algeria Abdelhalim Ourradi
W 9-4 		Mongolia Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan
L 9-2 [17] 		Did not advance
John Joe Joyce Light welterweight Hungary Gyula Kate
W 9-5 [18] 		Dominican Republic Felix Diaz
L +11-11 (CB) [19] 		Did not advance
Darren Sutherland Middleweight Bye Algeria Nabil Kassel
W RSC [20] 		Venezuela Alfonso Blanco
W 11-1 		United Kingdom James DeGale
Fri 22 3PM 		Sat 23 8:45PM
Kenny Egan Light heavyweight United States Virgin Islands Julius Jackson
W 22-2 		Turkey Bahram Muzaffer
W 10-2 [21] 		Brazil Washington Silva
W 8-0 		United Kingdom Tony Jeffries
Fri 22 9PM 		Sun 24 3:50PM

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.[4] Ireland did 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 88.52 18 87.81 12 176.33 15 Q 88.85 10 Q 88.06 4 176.91 4
[22]
[23]


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 6:39:42 (+15:53) 81
Nicholas Roche Road race 6:34:26 (+10:37) 64

Track

Men's Individual Pursuit

Athlete Event Qualifying 1st Round Finals
Time Rank Opposition
Time 		Rank Opposition
Time 		Rank
David O'Loughlin Men's individual pursuit 4:26.102 11 [24] Did not advance

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 were automatically entered into the team event.

Athlete Horse Event Dressage Cross-country Jumping Total
Qualifier Final
Penalties Rank Penalties Rank Penalties Rank Penalties Rank Penalties Rank
Geoffrey Curran Kilkishen Individual 61.70 59 30.40 39 2.00 33 Did not advance 94.10 32
Niall Griffin Lorgaine Individual 50.60 35 26.40 41 12.00 39 Did not advance 109.00 38
Louise Lyons Watership Down Individual 57.40 55 28.40 35 9.00 34 Did not advance 94.80 33
Austin O'Connor Hobby Du Mee Individual 52.80 42 34.40 36 0.00 27 Q 0.00 26 87.20 21
Patricia Ryan Fernhill Clover Mist Individual 78.70 68 34.80 47 13.00 44 Did not advance 126.50 43
From:
Geoffrey Curran
Niall Griffin
Louise Lyons
Austin O'Connor
Patricia Ryan 		as above Team 160.80 10 265.10 8 276.10 8
Jumping

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

Individual Jumping

Athlete Horse Event Ind. Round 1 Ind. Round 2 Ind. Round 3 Final
Round A Round B Total
Penalties Rank Penalties Total Rank Penalties Total Rank Penalties Rank Penalties Rank Penalties Rank
Denis Lynch Lantinus Individual 1 14 1 2 4 6 8 8

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 PolandIrena Więckowska
L 8-15 		Did not advance

Rowing

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

Ireland qualified with two boats for the rowing events. 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.

Alan Martin and Richard Coakley were the travelling subsitutes for the Coxless Fours and Lightweight Fours respectively.

Men

Athlete(s) Event Heats Repechage Semifinals 'B' Final Overall
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Rank
Sean Casey
Jonno Devlin
Cormac Folan
Sean O'Neill 		Fours 6:02.85 3 Q 5:58.14 6 6:07.97 4 10
Richard Archibald
Paul Griffin
Cathal Moynihan
Gearoid Towey* 		Lightweight <br\> fours 5:52.32 4 R 6:21.81 1 Q 6:13.85 4 6:06.02 4 10

* Replaced by Richard Coakley in B Final


Both teams reached the B Finals in their respective disciplines, both finishing fourth. In the Lightweight Fours B Final, Gearóid Towey had to withdraw due to illness, and was replaced by substitute Richard Coakley.[25] (A spate of illness circulated in the regatta field during the heats and finals, to the extent Germany's lightweight men's four had to withdraw entirely from the semi-final after three crew-members were affected.)

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 Medal race
Philip Lawton
Gerald Owens 		470 22 1 17 15 1 25 21 15 13 24 Did not advance 129 16
Stephen Milne
Peter O'Leary 		Star 6 12 7 10 12 13 13 8 11 12 Did not advance 91 13

Women

Athlete Event Race Score Rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Medal race
Ciara Peelo Laser Radial 23 17 15 7 13 24 25 18 10 Did not advance 127 20

Open

Athlete Event Race Score Rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Medal race
Tim Goodbody Finn (22) 13 15 15 17 16 21 15 Did not advance 112 21

Shooting

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

Men

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Score Rank Score Total
Derek Burnett Trap 110 29 [26] Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

(Qualifiers for the latter rounds of all events are decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.)

Athlete Events Heat Semi-Final Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Andrew Bree Men’s 100 m breaststroke 1:01.76 NR 30 Did not advance
Men’s 200 m breaststroke 2:10.91 NR 12 Q 2:10.16 NR 11 Did not advance
Men’s 200 m individual medley Did not start
Aisling Cooney Women’s 100 m backstroke 1:02.50 31 Did not advance
Melanie Nocher Women’s 200 m backstroke 2:12.29 NR 20 Did not advance
Women’s 200 m freestyle 2:04.29 43 Did not advance

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 20:17 1:26:52 39:09 2:06:29.36 37

See also

References

  1. ^ ""Barnes secures guaranteed bronze"". RTÉ. 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  2. ^ ""Egan eases to bronze medal"". RTÉ. 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  3. ^ ""Sutherland secures Olympic medal"". RTÉ. 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  4. ^ a b Olympic Council of Ireland Irish Team profiles Cite error: The named reference "IrishOlympicTeam" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ ""Hession impresses in 200m"". RTÉ. 2008-08-18. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  6. ^ ""Hession wins quarter-final"". RTÉ. 2008-08-18. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  7. ^ ""Hession fails to qualify for 200m final"". RTÉ. 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  8. ^ ""Chamney finishes fifth in heat"". RTÉ. 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  9. ^ ""Cragg through to 5000 metres"". RTÉ. 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  10. ^ ""Evans beaten by a whisker"". RTÉ. 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  11. ^ ""Magee reveals her winning secret"". RTÉ. 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  12. ^ ""Magee loses out in badminton tournament"". RTÉ. 2008-08-10. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  13. ^ World Boxing Championships Chicago 2007
  14. ^ 1st AIBA European Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament
  15. ^ 2nd AIBA European Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament
  16. ^ ""Barnes through to quarter-finals"". RTÉ. 2008-08-16. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  17. ^ ""Nevin bows out in last 16"". RTÉ. 2008-08-16. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  18. ^ ""Joyce praises sports psychologist"". RTÉ. 2008-08-12. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  19. ^ ""Joyce bows out on countback"". RTÉ. 2008-08-14. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  20. ^ ""Sutherland pummels his way into quarters"". RTÉ. 2008-08-16. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  21. ^ ""Egan eases into quarter-finals"". RTÉ. 2008-08-14. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  22. ^ ""Eoin Rheinisch misses out on bronze"". RTÉ. 2008-08-12. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  23. ^ ""Rheinisch is happy with fourth place"". RTÉ. 2008-08-12. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  24. ^ ""O'Loughlin 11th in Individual Pursuit"". RTÉ. 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
  25. ^ RTE sport - Ireland fourth in Lightweight Four B final
  26. ^ ""Burnett bows out in Beijing"". RTÉ. 2008-08-10. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
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