Ireland’s three medal winners from the European Indoor Championships: who they are and their journey to the medal podium Sarah Healy, Mark English and Kate O’Connor each claimed a medal during the final day of action in Apeldoorn Mon Mar 10 2025 - 14:51 Three medals for Ireland as Sarah...
Up next for Zheng, who arrived in New York having played just two hard court matches since winning the Olympic singles gold medal on the Parisian clay at Roland Garros, will be a clash with Russia’s Erika Andreeva. At Arthur Ashe Stadium, defending champ...
For Detailed List of Irish Medal of Honor Winners: . . 1890:Irish Medal of Honor winner Patrick Ginley Irish born (1822) Patrick Ginley is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor twenty-six years after the incident where he showed his courage. Ginley won the award while serving as a Privat...
Take a Look at These Irish Men Mary, They Are Our Gold Medal Winners and Champions of CourageIRELAND'S heroic Paralympic team proved Mary Ellen Synon wrong yesterday when they won two gold medals at the Sydney Games.Beattie, Jilly
A silver medal for Ciara Mageean in the women’s 1500m brought Northern Ireland’s performance at the Commonwalth Games to a most satisfying conclusion. Earlier in the week, multi-eventer Kate O’Connor had taken silver in the women’s heptathlon and Mageean was determined to do at ...
Luca & Matthew came 6th overall and just missed out on a medal being the 2nd U26 pair and medals being given to the top pair of each age category. Directly after was the World Youth Teams Championship in the same venue. Our U21 team got a late invite and the following were the ...
PIERRE de Coubertins vision for the Olympic Games was captured most famously in his plea that taking part be considered more important than winning. It is repeated to this day, mostly by hopelessly disconnected romantics who despair about winning in sport. The noble barons motivations and ideal...
McCANN GOES CLOSE TO OLYMPIC PLACE:(By Shane Stokes Oct 9)Irish rider David McCann performed above expectations against a field of more established professionals in the elite time trial at the world championships in Hamilton this evening,More... ...
Winners receive silver medals The actual medals given to winners in the 1896 Games were different from what we're familiar with today: First prize was given a silver medal (and an olive branch), and second prize a bronze (and a laurel branch). The medals depict Zeus and Nike. The gold...
Starting in Paris this summer, track and field athletes who win gold in each of the 48 events will also walk away with $50,000. World Athletics have also promised to extend the cash prizes to Olympic silver and bronze medal winners at the LA 2028 Games. ...