Irish in action at the Olympics on Tuesday
From 9am: Jake Passmore (Diving - 3m springboard preliminary round) - finished 21st and misses out on a place in the semi-finals
From 9am: Daniel Coyle and Shane Sweetnam (Showjumping - Individual final) - both missed out on a medal, Coyle retiring after picking up 16 faults, Sweetnam finishing with 12
9.05am: Sophie O’Sullivan (Athletics - 1,500m heat one) - finished seventh, goes in to tomorrow’s repechage
9.17am: Sarah Healy (Athletics - 1,500m heat two) - finished seventh, goes in to tomorrow’s repechage
10.20am: Sharlene Mawdsley (Athletics - 400m repechage, heat one) - finished third and misses out on a place in the semi-finals
10.44am: Sophie Becker (Athletics - 400m repechage, heat four) - finished second and misses out on a place in the semi-finals
2.43pm: Finn Lynch (Sailing - Dinghy medal race)
4.30pm: Lara Gillespie, Mia Griffin, Kelly Murphy and Alice Sharpe (Cycling - Track team pursuit qualifying)
10.06pm: Kellie Harrington v Wenlu Yang (Boxing - 60kg final)
Athletics: “Despite two brave efforts of utmost conviction, both Sophie O’Sullivan and Sarah Healy just missed out on automatic qualification from the heats of the women’s 1,500 metres inside the Stade de France on Tuesday morning.” Ian O’Riordan reports from Paris.
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Diving: Jake Passmore won’t progress to the semi-finals of the 3m springboard after finishing 21st out of the 25 competitors - the 19-year-old needed a top 18 placing to advance.
Athletics: Like Sharlene Mawdsley, Sophie Becker misses out on a place in the 400m semi-finals after finishing a fine second in her repechage, her time of 51:28 not enough to take one of the two fastest losers’ slots. Both runners will be back in the women’s 4x400m relays on Friday.
Athletics: No joy for Sharlene Mawdsley in her 400m repechage, finishing third in a time of 51.18. Sophie Becker is up next in her heat. It’s live on the RTE News channel.
Showjumping: Germany’s Christian Kukuk, Maikel van der Vleuten of the Netherlands and Switzerland’s Steve Guerdat are through to a jump-off for gold. Well for some.
From Malachy Clerkin in Versailles: No medal at the showjumping. Daniel Coyle was going well until he hit four in a row coming down to the final part of the course and retired. Shane Sweetnam picked up 12 faults and made no impression on the medal race either.
Showjumping: It’s not to be, there’ll be no showjumping medals for Ireland at these Games. Twelve faults for Shane Sweetnam and James Kann Cruz.
Showjumping: Drat - Daniel Coyle and Legacy retired after picking up 16 faults, so there’ll be no medal for them. Can Shane Sweetnam and James Kann Cruz make it through to the jump-off for gold? They’re up next.
Showjumping: Here come Daniel Coyle and Legacy. A clear round and they’re through to the jump-off.
Showjumping: Oooh, Martin Fuch’s horse clipped the last fence to miss out on a clear round. So, still just three so far - remember, all those with a clear round go in to a jump-off.
Showjumping: We have a third clear round, from Switzerland’s Steve Guerdat. We’re heading for a jump-off.... hopefully with Irish involvement.
Showjumping: There are just six riders to come in the individual final - and there are still just two clear rounds, from Germany’s Christian Kukuk and Maikel van der Vleuten of the Netherlands. So, it’s nearly Daniel Coyle and Legacy time. Shane Sweetnam and James Kann Cruz will be up right after Coyle, with France’s Julien Epaillard, on Dubai Du Cedre, the last man out. As Malachy Clerkin put it: squeaky-hoof time. It’s live on RTE2.
From a melting Malachy Clerkin: “Getting towards squeaky-hoof time in Versailles. After 20 riders have completed the course, we still have only those two clear rounds for Germany and the Netherlands. Shane Sweetnam and Daniel Coyle will be the 28th and 29th riders to go - should happen in the next 15 minutes or so.”
Athletics: Sarah Healy and Sophie O’Sullivan will be back in action tomorrow morning in the 1,500m repechage after both finished seventh in their heats this morning. Healy fell over the line as she tried to hold on to sixth in her heat, but was pipped by Maia Ramsden - the New Zealander’s time was 4:02.83, Healy’s 4:02.91. Excruciating.
A message from Malachy Clerkin, our man at the showjumping: “Greetings from Versailles, which is baking under a merciless sun this morning. The showjumping final is underway and the course is proving difficult so far. Two clear rounds among the first 10 riders, Germany’s Christian Kukuk and Maikel van der Vleuten of the Netherlands. Ireland’s Daniel Coyle and Shane Sweetnam will be the third-last and second-last of the 30 riders to go, shortly after 10am Irish time.”
Athletics: From 10.20am, Sharlene Mawdsley and Sophie Becker will attempt to qualify for the 400m semi-finals via the repechage. The first in each of the four races will go through, with the next two fastest qualifiers joining them. Mawdsley runs in the first heat, Becker in the fourth.
Athletics: Pure agony, Sarah Healy was caught right on the line in her 1,500m heat by New Zealand’s Maia Ramsden when it looked like she’d take sixth place and go through to the semi-finals. She finished in a time of 4:02:91. So, like Sophie O’Sullivan, Healy must go down the repechage route tomorrow if she is to make those semi-finals.
Athletics: Monday evening brought the gut-wrenching news that Ciara Mageean had to withdraw from today’s 1,500m heats due to an Achilles tendon injury. “I’m absolutely heartbroken not to be able to compete in my third Olympic Games,” she said. “I gave it everything to make it possible to be on the start line, but time was against me.” Ian O’Riordan reports on the latest of many injury setbacks for the Portaferry woman, at the very worst of times.
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Athletics: Sophie O’Sullivan, the daughter of you-know-who (hint: Sonia), has finished seventh in the morning’s first 1,500m heat, just one place short of automatic qualification for the semi-finals - she now goes through to the repechage. It was a terrific run by O’Sullivan, a personal best of 4:00:23, in a race won by Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay (3:58:84), with Britain’s Laura Muir second. Sarah Healy is up next in heat two. There’s live coverage on the RTE News channel.
Diving: First up for Ireland today is 19-year-old Jake Passmore in diving’s 3m springboard preliminary round. After his six dives, he needs to be in the top 18 to advance to the semi-finals.
Passmore is just the third Irish male diver to make it to an Olympic Games, after Eddie Heron, who competed in London in 1948, and Oliver Dingley, who qualified for Rio and Tokyo.
Born and raised in Bradford, his grandmother Elisabeth Barker from Dublin, Passmore has represented Ireland all along the way, winning the country’s first ever diving medal when taking bronze in the European Youth Championships in 2022.
His chief goal was qualifying for Los Angeles 2028, but two days before his 19th birthday, he got word that he was Paris-bound. “I almost don’t really have a word to describe the feeling,” he said of the news. “Not nervous ... I don’t know, absolutely blank.” Wishing the young fella well.
Showjumping: James Kann Cruz and Legacy, steered by Shane Sweetnam and Daniel Coyle, have hardly put a hoof wrong in these Olympic Games, so we probably shouldn’t have been hugely surprised by them having faultless rounds in yesterday’s qualifying for today’s individual final. Only France’s Julien Epaillard, on board Dubai Du Cedre, finished above them, so the three combinations will sit back and watch the first 27 competitors do their thing in Versailles before entering the arena. It’s live now on RTE2.
Good morning everyone. We had a break from medal-winning on Monday, but only because there were no medals to be won. Today? A whole different ball game, we’re gumming for more. Shane Sweetnam and Daniel Coyle are in the individual showjumping final, which gets under way at 9.0am this morning, having finished second and third, respectively, in the qualifying round. So, they’ll start second and third last in the 30-strong field.
And tonight, there’s the not so small matter of Kellie Harrington trying to upgrade her silver to gold when she takes on China’s Wenlu Yang in the 60kg final, the rather spectacular setting for the bout none other than Roland Garros which will host all the boxing finals.
Finn Lynch is through to today’s medal race in the dinghy event, but by his own calculation the best he can do is finish eighth, the points gap between himself and the leaders too wide.
In all, we have nine representatives in individual action today, as well as our women’s cycling track team pursuit quartet, so there’ll be a heap to keep an eye on. And athletics brings a string of must-not-miss finals, including the women’s 200m and the men’s long jump and 1500m where a lad by the name of Jakob Ingebrigtsen has half a chance of success.
