SWIMMING: Wiffen wins his heat of the 800m freestyle and is the fastest qualifier for tomorrow’s final. The double world champion will have a centre lane in the final.
SWIMMING: Wiffen leads after 550m, after 600m, after 650m
SWIMMING: Wiffen leads after 500 metres.
SWIMMING: Wiffen is third after 250 metres, second after 300 metres, second after 350 metres, second after 400m.
SWIMMING: Wiffen is third after 50 metres, third after 100 metres, third after 150 metres, third after 200 metres.
SWIMMING: Wiffen is racing.
SWIMMING: Daniel Wiffen in the pool next in the 800m freestyle. Top eight from the four heats qualify from the final. He goes in heat four alongside two highly rated Aussies.
SWIMMING: Ireland’s Danielle Hill takes 16th spot in the 100 metres backstroke and is through to the semi-finals.
HOCKEY: Ireland’s gutsy performance ends in defeat. They were outstanding in the second quarter against the number three side in the world despite conceding a sucker punch of a penalty stroke with 20 seconds left before the interval. Lee Cole got Ireland’s goal. A much better display than the 2-0 defeat to Belgium in their first game.
Fulltime: Ireland 1 Australia 2
SWIMMING: Ireland’s Ellen Walshe has qualified for the 400m individual medley final in seventh place overall after a superb swim. She finished fourth in her heat in a time of 4:39.97 seconds. The Dubliner was eighth after the backstroke leg but powered through in the freestyle. She will be in Lane 1 for the final this evening (7.30pm).
NO GOAL: Australia look to have scored from their ninth penalty corner but after a referral it is disallowed for stick on stick action.
50 mins: Ireland 1 Australia 2
Rowing: Women’s lightweight double Mags Cremen and Aoife Casey have won their Repechage race by 20-metres and now advance to the semi-finals. The Canadian and Argentinian boats also went through.
End of third quarter: Australia 2 Ireland 1.
37 mins: Ireland under serious pressure now, Australia have forced a series of penalty corners, based on being more aggressive in their pressing of Ireland and being swift and accurate in their attacking. Ireland are a player down, didn’t see who got the yellow card. Australia 2 Ireland 1
GOAL: Australia re-take the lead from a penalty stroke 20 seconds before the interval. Tough blow for Ireland but they had become a little introverted after their goal, retreating and putting every player into their half. It gave Australia easy possession and the number three ranked side in the world made the pressure tell. Such a pity after Ireland had shown good aggression in that second quarter.
Halftime: Australia 2 Ireland 1
Ireland’s goalscorer Lee Cole, is the nephew of former Ireland captain and Avoca player Johnny Cole, who in turn is a former teammate club and international buddy or our own Johnny Watterson, who is at the match, covering it for the Irish Times.
GOAL, 26 mins: : Lee Cole grabs it, his 33rd goal for Ireland. A slick penalty corner move dispatched with precision. Ireland have grown into the game and have been full value for that goal. Ireland 1 Australia 1
Hockey 17 mins: Australia 1 Ireland 0
GOAL, 11 mins: Ireland have gone a goal behind in their hockey pool game against Australia, Corey Weyer the scorer. Ireland 0 Australia 1
Here’s how to plan your day around the Irish athletes competing in the Olympics
9am Men’s Hockey, Pool B, Ireland v Australia
9.30am start Equestrian – Eventing Show-jumping – team and individual, Aoife Clarke, Susie Berry, Austin O’Connor
10am Rowing, Women’s Lightweight Double Sculls (LW2x), Margaret Cremen & Aoife Casey, repechage 1/2 – first three in rep will qualify for semi-finals
10.06am Swimming, Women’s 400m IM, Ellen Walshe (heat 2/2)
10.19am Swimming, Women’s 100m Backstroke, Danielle Hill (heat3/5)
10.58am Swimming, Men’s 800m Freestyle, Daniel Wiffen, (heat 4/4)
11.05pm Sailing, Men’s Skiff, race 4, Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove
11.57pm Sailing, Men’s Skiff, race 5, Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove
12.49pm Sailing, Men’s Skiff, race 5, Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove
2.30pm Women’s Rugby Sevens, Pool B, Ireland V Australia
2.30pm Canoe Slalom, Men’s C1 semi-final, Liam Jegou
2.46pm Boxing, Women’s 60kg, Round of 16, Kellie Harrington V Allesia Mesiano (ITA)
7pm start Women’s Rugby Sevens, Placing & knockout matches
7.30pm Swimming, Women’s 400m IM final, Ellen Walshe, *dependent on progression
7.57pm Swimming, Women’s 100m Backstroke semi-final, Danielle Hill, *dependent on progression
8.10pm or later Badminton, Men’s Singles, Group P, Nhat Nguyen V Prince Dehal (NEP)
8.25pm Swimming, Women’s 100m Breaststroke final, Mona McSharry
Next into the boxing ring this afternoon is defending lightweight champion Kellie Harrington who faces Italy’s Alessia Mesiano in the last 16. Mesiano was a lightweight world bronze medallist in 2022 and comes into the fight with one victory already under her belt in Paris; a 4-1 victory over a Turk in the preliminary round. The duo have met once before, in an Ireland v Italy international in Belfast in 2021 which Harrington won 5-0.
Following his brilliant win in his opening game on Saturday Badminton double Olympian Nhat Nguyen will face Prince Dehal of Nepal in his second group game tomorrow night.
The Ireland women’s Sevens rugby team face gold medal favourites Australia at the Stade de France this afternoon (1.30, Irish time) in their final Pool game. The Irish team lost to GB but beat South Africa and even if they lose will hope to qualify for the quarter-finals at one of the two best third placed teams in the pools.
In Canoe Slalom double Olympian Liam Jegou returns to action when he goes in the semi-final of the men’s C1 at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium. 16 paddlers will each get just one run down the 250m course with the top 12 gaining a spot in the Olympic final. Clare man Jegou, who qualified in 16th place will be the first to take on the course and try and post a strong time when the event starts at 2.30pm.
In the morning swimming session at the La Defense three Irish swimmers will feature. Dubliner Ellen Walshe will contest the heats of her favoured event, the women’s 400m Individual Medley, in which she swam a new Irish record of 4:37.18 last month. Danielle Hill will race in the heats of the women’s 100m backstroke, an event in which she became the first Irishwoman to break the minute mark in last May.
Reigning world champion Daniel Wiffen will make his first appearance at these Games when he lines up in the heats of the men’s 800m freestyle; he is the third fastest entrant on a time of 7:39.19.
In Sailing, after their impressive win in race three on Sunday Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove return to the water in Marseilles for races four, five and six of the men’s Skiff.
Irish schedule (check the full day-by-day guide):
- Badminton Nhat Nguyen (Men’s singles) v Prince Nahal, from 8.10pm
- Rowing: Margaret Cremen, Aoife Casey (Women’s lightweight double sculls repechage - top 3 to semi-finals), 10am
- Hockey: Ireland v Australia, 9am
- Boxing: Kellie Harrington (60kg Round of 16), v Alessia Mesiano (Ita), 2.46pm
- Equestrian: Austin O’Connor, Aoife Clark, Susie Berry (Three Day Eventing, Jumping Individual), from 10am
- Sailing: Robert Dickson/Seán Waddilove (Men’s skiff) Races 4-6 from 1.05pm
- Swimming: Daniel Wiffen (Men’s 800m Freestyle heats), from 10am, Danielle Hill (Women’s 100m Backstroke), from 10am, Mona McSharry (Women’s 100m Breaststroke final), 7.30pm
- Women’s Rugby Sevens: Ireland v Australia, 1.30pm
- Canoe Slalom: Liam Jegou (Mens C1, semi-final, finals), from 2.30pm
Morning and welcome to our live coverage of day three of the Olympic Games. Team Ireland will be in action across nine sports in Paris today. John O’Sullivan here, again, this time to blog the Olympics. I know it’s shameless!
Double world champion Daniel Wiffen starts his Games in the 800m heats at 10am while Mona McSharry goes in the 100m Breaststroke final this evening after a superb performance in last night’s semi-final.
The men’s hockey team get day three underway when they play Australia in their second pool game, having lost the opener 2-0 to Belgium. We will be keeping an eye on that game which starts at 9.0am, Irish time.
In Equestrian pursuits the Eventing team of Susie Berry and Austin O’Connor with Aoife Clarke now replacing Sarah Ennis, will contest the third and final element of their competition when they go in the show jumping at the Palace of Versailles. They lie eighth overall in the team event.
O’Connor is 14th individually after his impressive cross country test. The final day will feature the team show jumping phase in the morning, followed by a second round of jumping for the top 25 combinations, after which the individual medals will be decided. The Corkman is within striking distance of a top 10 finish.
One Irish rowing crew will be back on the water; women’s lightweight double Mags Cremen and Aoife Casey race in the repechages of their event, and must finish in the top three to advance to the semi-finals.
