Kellie Harrington has joined the pantheon of Irish sporting greats. She retained her Olympic lightweight title, defeating her Chinese rival Wenlu Yang, before confirming her retirement from the sport. Already the first female athlete to win two Olympic medals at different games, she now joins Pat O’Callaghan, Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy as the only Irish athletes to retain an Olympic title.
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Ciara Mageean has withdrawn from the Paris Olympics after failing to recover from an Achilles tendon injury. A statement by Team Ireland stated that Mageean had been dealing with a chronic Achilles issue in recent weeks and that “despite every effort made by Ciara and the Team Ireland medical team, the European champion will unfortunately be unable to toe the line tomorrow morning” in the women’s 1500m heats.
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Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen has won the bronze medal in the 1500m freestyle to become a double Olympic medallist. Six days after been crowned the new 800m Olympic champion, the 23-year-old had to give way to defending Olympic champion Bobby Finke, who led virtually from the start to win the gruelling 30-lap event in a new world record time of 14:30.67 holding off Wiffen and Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri.
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Rhys McClenaghan won Olympic pommel horse gold for Ireland with a breathtaking performance scoring 15.533 points. The County Down native banished the demons of the Tokyo games to achieve his life’s goal. Defending champion Max Whitlock finished out of the medals in his final competition before retirement with Nariman Kurbanov from Kazakhstan and Team USA’s Stephen Nedoroscik completing the podium.
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Ireland’s Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy retained their Olympic men’s lightweight double sculls title after winning gold in Paris. With the Irish support travelling to Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in their numbers, O’Donovan and McCarthy delivered a dominant showing on the outskirts of Paris as they backed up their gold medal from Tokyo three years ago.
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