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Relentless Performance Leads Ireland U-20 Women To Record Win

Captain Jane Neill scored two tries in a player-of-the-match performance a ..

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“Over the Moon”: Brídíní Óga Win Historic Success for Antrim Camogie

  Report provided by Daragh Ó Conchúir. “We’re over the moon,&#82 ..

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Women’s Rugby World Cup: The Green Wave is coming

Eight years. That’s how long Ireland’s women have waited to return to the Rugby ..

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Transgender Sprinter Halba Diouf’s Determined To Fight Olympic Ban

French sprinter Halba Diouf’s has expressed that she feels marginalised and hounded after the World Athletics (WA) announced in March that the WA governing body has banned transgender women who have gone through male puberty from competing in women’s events, leaving Diouf’s Olympic dreams shattered. WA explained their decision was based on the “need to protect the female category.” “I …

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Rowers Launch New Fund To Support The Sport

What started out as a fun Instagram account has now become a new fund aimed at helping future young rowers. Set up by the Irish women’s team (that went on to Olympic Bronze in 2021), the Big Strong Gorls (BSGs) fund will channel money earned through the sale of branded kit and merchandise via Powerhouse Sport towards financially supporting the …

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Olympic Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay To Debut In 2024

World Athletics announced that a marathon race walk featuring 25 teams, each comprising one male and one female athlete, will complete the marathon distance (42.195km) in four legs of approximately equal distance, at next year’s Olympic Games in Paris. Each athlete will complete two legs of just over 10km each, alternating male, female, male, female. According to World Athletics, the marathon …

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Ireland Women’s Sevens head coach departs as squad seek Olympic qualification

Ireland Women’s Sevens head coach Aiden McNulty has left his position with Allan Temple-Jones announced as his replacement. Temple-Jones previously held the role of Head of Athletic Performance for the Ireland Sevens from 2017-2021 and makes his return after two seasons with the Cell C Sharks in South Africa with McNulty after taking up the position of Provincial Talent Coach …

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Russia seeks Olympics alternative, backed by China

As the war in Ukraine rages on, sporting sanctions against Russia and Belarus (Russia’s primary ally in the war) continue to be enforced worldwide. The IOC has reaffirmed that while Russian and Belarusian athletes will be able to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympics, “No flag, anthem, colours, or any other identifications whatsoever of these countries” will be allowed, with …

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Ruth Chepngetich defends Nagoya Women’s Marathon title and wins record $250,000

Ruth’s extraordinary solo run at the Nagoya Women’s Marathon awarded her with the biggest first prize in the world, US$250,000, for the second consecutive year. The Nagoya Women’s Marathon 2023 was held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, and Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya successfully defended her title, winning the women-only World Athletics Platinum Label road race in 2:18:08. Although she could …

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Rhasidat Adeleke: “Maybe that comes down to me not knowing my limits yet.”

Rhasidat Adeleke is nowhere near her peak in her athletics career. In 2022, the 20-year-old athlete broke 5 Irish records; The indoor 60m, 200m and 300m and the outdoor 200m and 400m. In only her 6th race over 400m not only did she break a national record, she only narrowly missed out on a medal coming 5th in her debut …

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Irish sprinter Sharlene Mawdsley: “I was running for fun, and then I got a small bit better as I got older and I wouldn’t have known that if I dropped out of the sport”

Sprinter Sharlene Mawdsley was part of the women’s 4x400m relay team that broke a national record at this Summer’s European Championships, crossing the line with a time of 3:26.06. “It was obviously unreal that we broke the national record. I think we all did go in trusting our abilities and we knew we could produce a really good time. I …

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IABA, IOC Condemn Russian-led IBA’s Suspension of Ukraine Boxing Federation

The Irish Athletic Boxing Association has released a blistering statement condemning “utterly and without reservation” the International Boxing Association’s “illegal” suspension of the Ukrainian National Boxing Federation (FBU): “The IABA…stands in solidarity with our sister federation and calls for the immediate restoration of full IBA membership for the Ukrainian Boxing Federation.” The suspension was placed on the FBU last week …

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