Tokyo 2020: Team Ireland profiles - Meg Ryan (Gymnastics)

Irish national champion will compete in all-around event

Meg Ryan   at the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin. Photograph: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
Meg Ryan at the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin. Photograph: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Age: 19

Event: Women's All-Around

Club: Douglas GC

Coached by Emma Hamill in Cork, Ryan was a junior national champion in 2016 and 2017 and senior national champion in 2019 having first joined the Douglas club in 2007 aged seven. At the 2019 World Championships she finished just outside the automatic qualification, as first reserve, and was offered the quota spot once Olympic rankings in gymnastics closed in June. Her all-around event is set to see her compete across four events - the vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercises.

Ian O'Riordan

Ian O'Riordan

Ian O'Riordan is an Irish Times sports journalist writing on athletics