Irish in action at the Olympics today:
- 8am: Stephanie Meadow (Golf – women’s tournament first round)
- 9.15am: Sarah Lavin (Athletics – women’s 100m hurdles heats). Second in heat four, qualified for Friday’s semi-final.
- 10.10am: Brian Fay (Athletics – men’s 5,000m heats). 13th in heat two, failed to qualify for Saturday’s final.
- 10.48am: Jack Woolley (Taekwondo – men’s 58kg qualifying). Lost to Gashim Magomedov, must wait to see if he goes into repechage this evening.
- 10.55am: Mark English (Athletics – men’s 800m heats). Second in heat two, qualified for Friday’s semi-final.
- 11.17am: Leona Maguire (Golf – women’s individual first round)
- 11.45am: Sophie O’Sullivan (Athletics – women’s 1,500m repechage). Fourth in heat one, failed to qualify for Thursday’s semi-finals.
- 11.57am: Sarah Healy (Athletics – women’s 1,500m repechage). Fourth in heat one, failed to qualify for Thursday’s semi-finals.
- 12.13pm: Finn Lynch (Sailing – rescheduled men’s dinghy medal race)
- 7.45pm: Rhasidat Adeleke (Athletics – women’s 400m semi-finals)
Athletics: Sarah Healy pushed hard from the final bend but it’s another cruel fourth-place finish for Ireland.
She crossed the line in 4:07.60, behind Sintayehu Vissa of Italy in first, GB’s Revee Walcott-Nolan in second, and Agueda Marques of Spain in third.
Athletics: The pack is starting to straighten out. Australia’s Linden Hall leads as they take the bell.
Healy’s in fifth, needs third or better to qualify for the semi-finals.
Athletics: Heat two is off. Healy positioning herself at the front of the pack.
Athletics: Heartbreak for Sophie O’Sullivan. She misses out on qualification by just one spot.
The 22-year-old takes fourth. Her last push to the line couldn’t see her past Esther Guerrero.
Birke Haylom was home in first, followed by Italy’s Ludovica Cavalli in second.
Next up is Sarah Healy in the event’s second heat.
Athletics: O’Sullivan sticking to middle of the chasing pack. Ethiopia’s Birke Haylom is far out in front, she’s about 50m clear of Spain’s Esther Guerrero in second.
Athletics: Heat one of the women’s 1,500m repechage is off.
Sophie O’Sullivan running for Ireland. Needs a top-three finish to qualify for the semi-finals.
We’ll be heading back to Stade de France now shortly as Sophie O’Sullivan and Sarah Healy are in the women’s 1,500m repechage looking to qualify for tomorrow’s semi-finals.
O’Sullivan is up first in heat one at about 11.45am, followed by Healy in heat two.
Meanwhile in the women’s individual stroke play, Stephanie Meadow is now seven over thru 14, while Leona Maguire is two over after the first hole.
The round ends in 12-7 favour of Azerbaijan’s Gashim Magomedov, so he progresses to the quarter-finals.
If Magomedov gets to the final later, Woolley can get another chance in the repechage.
Taekwondo: Two seconds left on the clock in the second round, there’s a review to check a penalty. It’s 6-12 against Woolley.
Taekwondo: Woolley lands a head shot to take four points, but picks up a penalty for a punch.
Another penalty levels it to 4-4, but Magomedov’s gone ahead with a shot to Woolley’s trunk.
Taekwondo: First round goes to Magomedov, 7-4.
Taekwondo: Gashim Magomedov’s team have challenged a head shot which has been awarded after review.
Taekwondo: They’re under way at the Grand Palais. Woolley’s in blue.
We’ll take a break from the athletics now for a short while to focus on taekwondo.
Jack Woolley will become a two-time Olympian shortly when he takes to the mat in the men’s 58kg round of 16 against Azerbaijan’s Gashim Magomedov.
If you’ve forgotten the rules since Woolley’s last outing in Tokyo, Team Ireland have this explainer...
Athletics: In the men’s 800m, Mark English has qualified for Friday’s semi-finals.
He finished second in heat two, his time of 1:45.15 just .02 behind Gabriel Tual of France.
Athletics: All over in heat two of the men’s 5,000m, and its disappointment for Ireland’s Brian Fay who misses out on qualification for Saturday’s final.
Fay was home in 13th in 13:55.35, leaving him outside the top-eight finish needed to progress.
Athletics: Ah look at that, quelle surprise as the French say, Ingebrigtsen is up to first. One lap left.
Athletics: They’ve upped the pace and Brian Fay has slipped back the pack to fourth last.
Ingebrigtsen has started his pursuit of the leaders.
Athletics: Fay sticking to the middle of the pack.
Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen is up to his old tricks once again, sitting at the very back of the pack hardly breaking a sweat. Expect a late push from him.
Athletics: Drama at the finish of heat one in the men’s 5,000m. A fall in the pack on the final stretch brought down a handful of runners. Appeals likely to follow.
Heat two is just after getting under way, with Brian Fay in action.
Golf: While we’re waiting for the first heat of the men’s 5,000m to finish, the poor dears have to do 12.5 laps and their current pace can best be described as leisurely (all relative I hasten to add), let’s look at how things are going at Le Golf National.
Stephanie Meadow teed off at 9am alongside France’s Perrine Delacour and Belgium’s Manon de Roey. She’s currently on four over par, thru eight holes.
Leona Maguire will tee off at 11.17am.
Athletics: Next up on the track is Brian Fay, who is running in heat two of the men’s 5,000m which will set off shortly. The first heat has just got under way.
First eight finishers in each heat qualify for Saturday’s final.
“To have that one under the belt is great,” Sarah Lavin told David Gillick after qualifying for the semi-finals of the women’s 100m hurdles.
“I 100 per cent think that’s the scariest round, and the next one is the most difficult because so many girls are capable of making that top eight. You need to be clean and also just go for it, I think that’s hopefully the brave will be rewarded.
“It’s a pretty scary thing to do in a heat when all that’s up for offer is a Q (qualification) and yet you know that if you get the Q you get the day off tomorrow. So it was funny kind of bartering with myself, ‘come on Sarah, you can do this’, but I do need to be a lot more aggressive, keep myself a lot tighter over the hurdles.”
Of course, the downside of being on this morning’s schedule was a strict bedtime last night. Asked if she held out to watch Harrington’s fight, Lavin said: “I couldn’t, thank God I didn’t because I would have been bawling!
“Over breakfast this morning I watched her (Harrington) singing Grace and thank God I went to bed because it would have been all hours. But what a special person, and yeah, there’s an incredible atmosphere in the team.”
Athletics: Ireland is off to a good start at Stade de France as Sarah Lavin placed second in heat four to qualify for Friday’s semi-finals.
The Treaty woman put in a blistering 12.73 run, jumping cleanly to best all but Jamaica’s Danielle Williams, who crossed the line in 12.59.
Lavin goes into the semi-final as the 12th fastest qualifier. The event’s Olympic record-holder Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico qualified fastest with a 12.49.
Good morning everyone. Did we all dream of gold medals last night?
Day 12 in Paris is another busy one for Team Ireland, with action in golf, athletics, sailing and taekwondo.
But first, in case you missed last night’s glory for Kellie Harrington, Malachy Clerkin has you covered.
“She did it. In what was her last ever international fight, Kellie Harrington came to the gilded courts of Roland-Garros and kept stockpiling firsts,” he writes, having been among those who saw the Dubliner make history in Paris to become back-to-back Olympic champion.
“She was smooth and clinical, like she has been all through the boxing competition here. And it brought her to a place no Irish boxer has ever been.”
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Looking ahead, Sarah Lavin gets her Games under way, taking part in the heats of the women’s 100m hurdles, as does Jack Woolley, competing in the men’s 58kg taekwondo event.
Although mathematically out of the medals by his own calculations, Finn Lynch is also in the postponed medal race in the men’s dinghy race, and Stephanie Meadow and Leona Maguire are at Le Golf National for the opening round of the women’s individual stroke play.
Sarah Healy and Sophie O’Sullivan are in the women’s 1,500m repechage round, while Brian Fay is in the heats of the men’s 5,000m and Mark English competes in the men’s 800m heats.
Last up for Team Ireland will be Rhasidat Adeleke, taking to the starting blocks in the women’s 400m semi-final at around 7.45pm.
