ON THE PLANE TO PARIS…

SIXTY-NINE Irish competitors have qualified for the Olympics so far between individual and team events, with Eve McMahon the latest when doing so at a sailing competition in Argentina on Tuesday.

With more places to be claimed, it looks likely that the largest ever Irish team will travel to Paris for the opening ceremony on Friday, July 26.

The record was set with 116 athletes across 19 sports competing in Tokyo in 2021, but that mark should be surpassed come the end of July.

ATHLETICS

Sarah Lavin (100m hurdles), Andrew Coscoran (1500m), Brian Fay (5000m), Rhasidat Adeleke (200m & 400m), Ciara Mageean (1500m), Sophie O’Sullivan (1500m), Sarah Healy (1500m), Fionnuala McCormack (marathon).

BOXING

Women’s: Kellie Harrington (Lightweight), Aoife O’Rourke (middleweight), Michaela Walsh (featherweight).

Men’s: Dean Clancy (lightweight), Jack Marley (heavyweight).

CANOEING – SLALOM

Noel Hendrick (K1 slalom), Madison Corcoran (K1 slalom), Robert Hendrick/ Liam Jegou (C1 slalom).

CYCLING

Three places secured: two places qualified in men’s road race, one of whom will compete in the time trial, and one place qualified in the women’s road race.

EQUESTRIAN

Eventing team (members to be confirmed); showjumping team (members to be confirmed).

GYMNASTICS

Rhys McClenaghan (men’s pommel).

ROWING

Aifric Keogh and Fiona Murtagh (women’s pair), Ross Corrigan and Nathan Timoney (men’s pair), Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan (men’s lightweight doubles), Aoife Casey and Margaret Cremen (women’s lightweight doubles), Zoe Hyde and Alison Bergin (women’s doubles), Philip Doyle and Daire Lynch (men’s doubles).

*The boat qualifies, not the athlete, so the rowers who qualified are not necessarily the ones who will compete at the Games.

RUGBY SEVENS

Men’s and women’s teams both qualified.

SAILING

Finn Lynch (ILCA 7 class), Sean Waddilove and Robert Dickson (skiff), Eve McMahon (ILCA 6 class).

*As in rowing, it is the boat that qualifies, so a different crew may compete at the Games.

SWIMMING

Mona McSharry (100m breaststroke), Ellen Walshe (200m IM), Daniel Wiffen (800m & 1500m freestyle).