SPORTSMAIL QUIZ
QUIZ ANSWERS
1 Ronnie Delany won a gold medal at the 1956 Games in which event?
2 In what event did Kieran Behan compete for Ireland at Rio 2016?
3 Which female American track and field athlete had five Olympic medals stripped in 2007 over the use of performance-enhancing drugs?
4 In which event do competitors fence, shoot and swim?
5 Which country is the reigning men’s Olympic volleyball champion?
6 Which city hosted the 1976 summer Olympics?
7 Fourteen countries competed in the first modern
Games in 1896. Which country topped the medal table?
8 Who is the president of the International Olympic Committee?
9 Which city has held the modern Games three times?
10 Athletes from what country always walk on first during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony?
11 And which country’s athletes go last?
12 Who was Ireland’s flag bearer at Rio 2016?
13 Complete the sequence of 100m winners: Linford
Christie, Donovan Bailey, Maurice Greene…
14 In what year did women first compete at the Olympic Games?
15 What city is due to host the 2024 Games?
16 What animal features in every Olympic opening ceremony?
17 Who won Ireland’s first gold medal on the track?
18 Who is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games?
19 The 100m final in which Games has been described as ‘the dirtiest race in history’?
20 Two Irishmen finished in the top 10 in the 1984 marathon. John Treacy, who took silver, was one. Who was the other?
21 What British director was in charge of the 2012 opening ceremony?
22 What Irish rower came fourth in the final of the 2000m in 1976, having broken the world record in his semi-final?
23 Who did Sonia O’Sullivan finish second to in the 5000m at Sydney?
24 Who won Ireland’s first ever Olympic medal?
25 Who was the native of Bohola, Co Mayo, who won golds in discus for the US in 1904 and 1908?
26 Who won Ireland’s only medal at Helsinki 1952?
27 Whom did Katie Taylor beat in her Olympic final at London 2012?
28 Who beat John Joe Nevin in his Olympic final at London 2012
29 What was the name of Cian O’Connor’s horse that was disqualified after finishing first in Athens 2004?
30 Golf returned to the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 and four golfers, two men and two women, represented Ireland. Who were they?