Irelands most likely Olympic 2012 Medals

CoachDudie

Dan man wrote: »

Yep it'll keep us ticking over until the big one comes... I'd say some athletes will show more emotion by actually making the standard than those winning the medals. Some of the distance races could be interesting, probably they won't be won at a crawl due to the fact that athletes are chasing the standards.

Yes the Europeans will be very watchable this year. I know there's a good few Irish athletes putting in huge effort to get the times in Helsinki. For some it will be their last chance to make the Olympics so yes expect lots of jumping around and tears of joy from some even if they only finish top ten but get the time.

K_1

CoachDudie wrote: »

Well in fairness that was a little early for the London games.

An Olympic forum would be perfect for threads like this. Another one with information for fans who will be attending, especially with a lot of Irish living in London they could give local knowledge. Ticket information (although it's getting late for that), I'm sure Dan would be starting an Irish at the Olympics thread or something. You could have a thread for predictions, another for betting tips. A drug scandal thread.
I'm sure people could think of loads more. It would be filled with threads full of valuable information. Makes sense to start it but you or I don't make those decisions.

Given that the sports forum (that this thread is actually in) is rarely used for anything else (this is the only really active thread), why not just make all those threads, and more in this forum?!

Dan man

Here is the current state of play in terms of Olympic qualification at the Men's 470 World Sailing Championships in Barcelona. The top 7 nations in this list at the end of the competition will earn quota places for the London 2012 Olympics. Overall the Irish duo of Ger Owens and Scott Flanigan lie 15th overall but are crucially in 3rd place in the battle for Olympic qualification.

Note: I have only included the countries that the Irish guys are in competition with in terms of Olympic qualification. Remember the lower the score the better. A first place finish in a race will add just 1 point to that team's total, and a 30th place finish adds 30 points to that team's tally, not a good result for their ambitions of a good finish overall.
The top 7 on this list at the end of the competition will be awarded Olympic quota places for their respective countries.

POSITION|COUNTRY|RACE 1|RACE 2|RACE 3|RACE 4|TOTAL
1|Russia|14|5|2|7|28
2|Canada|22|2|1|4|29
3|IRELAND (Ger Owens/Scott Flanagan)|5|9|9|10|33
4|South Korea|10|4|14|6|34
5|South Africa|10|13|4|7|34
6|Turkey|17|7|10|7|41
7|Slovenia|16|12|6|13|47
8|Ukraine|6|14|16|16|52
9|Chile|16|11|18|14|59
10|Poland|9|17|23|25|74
11|Denmark|29|16|19|11|75
12|Hungary|23|17|20|18|78
13|Brazil|13|33|33|8|87
14|Czech Republic|29|21|19|20|89
15|Belgium|15|26|26|27|94
16|Venezuela|11|27|29|33|100
17|Ecuador|32|19|22|29|102
18|India|21|28|27|27|103
19|Malaysia|11|31|31|31|104

Dodge

Maybe put a column for the score without the current discard score too Dan. So
Canada 7
Russia 14
South Korea 20
South Africa 21
Ireland 23
Turkey 24
Slovenia 29
Ukraine 36

etc

CoachDudie

K_1 wrote: »

Given that the sports forum (that this thread is actually in) is rarely used for anything else (this is the only really active thread), why not just make all those threads, and more in this forum?!

Ok, might try that. Don't think it would last but we'll see.

Dan man

Dodge wrote: »

Maybe put a column for the score without the current discard score too Dan. So
Canada 7
Russia 14
South Korea 20
South Africa 21
Ireland 23
Turkey 24
Slovenia 29
Ukraine 36

etc

I will do once the race scores come through from today, it will give a more accurate reflection of the standings.

Dan man

At the men's Finn World Championships in Falmouth, Ireland's Ross Hamilton finished 47th and 41st in today's 2 races. Here are the provisional standings:

POSITION|COUNTRY|RACE 1|RACE 2|RACE 3|RACE 4|RACE 5|RACE 6|TOTAL
1|Poland|9|10|8|(15)|12|5|44
2|Germany|23|13|30|(54)|23|11|100
3|Czech Republic|10|(37)|31|30|24|24|119
4|Austria|29|11|21|35|(36)|28|124
5|China|21|31|33|(38)|29|17|131
6|Turkey|32|30|25|(64)|43|9|139
7|Norway|44|46|18|55|26|(95)|189
8|Hungary|39|29|43|46|(50)|34|191
9|Cyprus|47|44|48|33|(53)|38|210
10|India|38|38|62|52|46|39|213
11|IRELAND (Ross Hamilton)|73|40|45|(58)|41|47|231


Unfortunately Ross has virtually no chance of making the Olympic quota places now at this stage (top 6 in the above list). Hard luck to him.
In better news, the Irish men's 470 duo of Ger Owens and Scott Flanigan had another good day on the waters in Barcelona. They finished in the top 15 in both races today meaning their campaign for Olympic qualification remains bang on track. I will update later when I get official results. They may actually have done enough to secure Olympic qualification at this stage.

Dan man

Ger Owens and Scott Flanigan have qualified Ireland a quota place to sail the men's 470 event at the London Olympics. Their results today (13th in both race 5 and 6) seen them qualify for the gold fleet. Due to the fact that the field has been split into gold and silver fleets they are now guaranteed to finish in the top 7 of those unqualified nations in the rankings thus meaning they have done enough to earn Olympic qualification. Excellent news, our fifth boat to qualify for the Games. Ireland's team has now grown to 48 members, 8 of which will be competing in Weymouth for the sailing competition. Sailing is only second to athletics in terms of Irish qualifiers for 2012...it has been a very successful qualifying campaign for our sailors for the most part. Well done to them.

Dan man

Irish lightweight boxer Katie Taylor has received a walkover this morning at the World Championships in China as her opponent from Romania failed to show up. This means Taylor is now guaranteed a medal and even more crucially, if another European boxer loses in the quarter finals in this division this morning then Katie will be officially qualified for London 2012.

Dan man

Big news this morning for all you Irish Olympic fans...Katie Taylor has qualified for London 2012!
A defeat for the French boxer has meant that there can be no more than 3 Europeans in the lightweight semi-finals thus ensuring that Taylor will get one of the 3 Olympic quota places for Europe in this division.
Super way to start the day!
Our number of qualifiers has now risen to 49!

Dan man

At the European Olympic Qualifying event for Canoe Sprint in Poznan, Poland, Ireland's Neil Fleming finished in 5th place in his heat of the men's K1 1,000m. Only the winner advanced automatically to the final with all of the other boats now going into a semi-final (effectively a repechage) for the remaining spots in the final. He needs to finish in the top 3 in his semi-final in order to make the final.
Also competing in Poznan this morning was Jenny Egan in the women's K1 500m. She placed 5th in her heat and missed out on the top 3 needed to ensure an automatic place in the final, so like Neil she must compete in a semi-final repechage where a top 3 placing will be needed to make the final.
In the men's K2 200m the Irish duo of Sean Marchetti and Val Pierce finished last in their heat but as all boats at least qualify for the semi-finals they will have another outing.
Good to see so many Irish boats represented in Poznan.

Dodge

http://www.olympicsport.ie/sports/canoeing/4980-jezierski-competes-for-ireland.html

Jezierski got his passport in time too. Races in the Canadian events. Frst up is C1 200m this afternoon

Dodge

Quick summary?

Athletics; 18 A standard holders, of which 1 won't go. 2 have A standard in 2 events
Swimming; 2 A standard holders, who can swim in additional 5 events in which they hold B standards
Cycling; 1 Track, 3 road, one of which can also ride time trial
Sailing; 5 boats, total of 8 sailors
Showjumping; 2
Equestrian; 3 individuals who can also eneter as team
Boxing; 6
Canoeing; 2
Gymnastics;1
Triathlon; 1
Shooting; 1
Badminton; 1
Judo; 1

So I make that 49 competitors travelling in possible 45 events (not including individual apparatus in Gymnastics)

Dodge

Oh and just because Grainne Murphy is qualified in 5 events, doesn't mean she will race in all 5. some clash (like 200m free and 200m IM on day 3)

Dodge

Andrzej Jezierski has won his heat in the C1 200m race in Poland. Straight through to tomorrow's final. Fastest qualifier too

Jennifer Egan has qualified as 9th fastest for the k1 500m final too

Top 2 qualify for Olympics

Dan man

At the Women's Laser World Sailing Championships in Boltenhagen, Ireland's Annalise Murphy made the best possible recovery from a disatrous start to her campaign by clinching a 1st and a 2nd in races 3 and 4. After a 65 and a 33 from yesterday's two races Annalise is really up against it to challenge for the top positions. Her inconsistency is a real worry as apart from a couple of bad races each event, she is arguably as good as any other sailor in her class. She moves up to 27th place overall but will be looking for another strong day on the German waters tomorrow.
Annalise has already booked her place at the London Olympics but will be looking to lay down a marker to her rivals at these championships.

K_1

Jenny Egan races at 9.22 (8.22 here I think ) tomorrow morning. As the slowest final qualifier, shes in lane 9, but with the windy conditions, depending on wind direction this could actually be an advantage! The competition in this class, is crazy, it's a huge achievement getting this far, but she'll need to pull off the race of her life tomorrow to finish top 2. Best of luck to her.

Andrzej Jezierski races at 16.05 (15.05 here), and as he is fastest qualifier he won't have to race a semi final tomorrow, which should be another advantage. Its looking good for him at the moment!

Jenny Egan has her 200m semi final at 12.45 (11.45 here), she has a good chance of qualifying for the final, but the 500m is her better event. Shame there's no 1000m or she'd be an Olympic medal prospect!

Dan man

EDIT:
Just editing this list to update the fact that Ireland has it's 50th qualifier for the London Olympics. Andrzej Jezierski in the C1 200m sprint canoeing has booked his place by finishing in the top 2 qualifying positions at the Final Olympic qualifying tournament in Poznan. Andrzej has been living in Cork for a number of years and his Olympic preparations have been based there.

UPDATE:
Since I last updated this list (less than a week ago) the Irish team expanded to 49 members as 3 more athletes booked their places at the London Olympics.
Dublin sailors Ger Owens and Scott Flanigan qualified in the men's 470 class. London 2012 will be a third consecutive Olympics for Owens whereas young Scott Flanigan will head to his maiden Olympics at the tender age of 19. He is the second youngest member of the Irish team this time around after Grainne Murphy, who will also be 19 when she competes in London.
The news that we've all been waiting for came through this morning when Bray boxer Katie Taylor guaranteed her place at the Olympics by advancing to the World Championships semi-finals in China. She becomes Wicklow's third team member.



* denotes the fact that the current number may reduce by one when the women's marathon team is finalised.

County|Number of athletes qualified|Details|
Dublin|10*|Linda Byrne, Ava Hutchinson, Maria McCambridge, Deirdre Ryan, Annalise Murphy, Mark Kenneally, Barry Murphy, David Burrows, Ger Owens, Scott Flanigan
Antrim|5|Ryan Seaton, Michael Conlan, Paddy Barnes, Lisa Kearney, Hannah Craig
Cork|4|Derval O'Rourke, Robert Heffernan, Ciaran O'Lionaird, Peter O'Leary
Donegal|3*|Brendan Boyce, Chloe Magee, Caitriona Jennings
Down|3|Matt McGovern, Martyn Irvine, James Espey
Wicklow|3|Fionnuala Britton, Stephanie Reilly, Katie Taylor
Galway|2|Olive Loughnane, Paul Hession
Kilkenny|2|Darren O'Neill, Joanne Cuddihy
Wexford|2|Grainne Murphy, Adam Nolan
Derry|1|Aileen Morrison
Kildare|1|Eoin Rheinisch
Leitrim|1|Colin Griffin
Longford|1|Derek Burnett
Westmeath|1|John Joe Nevin
Other/Abroad|4|Alistair Cragg (South Africa), Kieran Behan (England), Andrzej Jezierski (Poland), Tori Pena (U.S.A.)






Additional Info:

• So far the team is made up of 28 men and 18 women and 5 unknown equestrian riders. The number of women qualifiers however will be reduced by one when Athletics Ireland choose their marathon team.
• Qualifiers by province: Leinster (20), Ulster (12), Munster (4), Connacht (3).
• Kieran Behan (gymnastics qualifier) although born in London, England has Irish parents: mother is from Monaghan and father from Dublin.
• Tori Pena was born in California but competes for Finn Valley A.C. in Donegal and her grandmother was born in Derry.
• Maria McCambridge has been living in Donegal for the last few years and competes for Letterkenny A.C. She is married to Letterkenny runner Gary Crossan and she is now living in Donegal with her family. Caitriona Jennings rather ironically hails from Letterkenny but runs for Rathfarnam A.C. in Dublin.
• Olive Loughnane was born in Cork and indeed currently lives in Cork so she has strong connections to that county. Neverthless she grew up in Galway and is a product of Carrabane A.C. in Loughrea, Galway so I think in this case it may be fairer to include her in that county's total.
• So far, just as many Corkmen as Dublin men have qualified (3 a-piece).
• 9 qualifiers were born in Northern Ireland (6 men and 3 women).
• Lisa Kearney will be Ireland's first ever female judoka to take part in the Olympic Games.
• Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murphy is the most common surname, with 3 Murphys on the team.
• Trap shooter Derek Burnett is the oldest member of the Irish Olympic team at 41 years of age. Maria McCambridge is the oldest women on the team, she will be 37 when the Olympic Opening Ceremony takes place and the youngest being Grainne Murphy who is just 19. Flyweight boxer Michael Conlan is the youngest male on the team at just 20 years of age.
• The average age of our women when the Olympics get underway is 28.4yrs for women and 28.7yrs for the men. Overall the average is 28.6yrs for our Olympians.
• 26 of the qualifiers will be first-time Olympians in London; 9 qualifiers are returning for a second time with 8 of these 9 having previously competed in Beijing in 2008 and Maria McCambridge returning after having competed in Athens 2004; 4 qualifiers (Derval O'Rourke, Alistair Cragg, Eoin Rheinisch and Ger Owens) will be appearing in their 3rd consecutive Olympic Games; and a total of 4 Olympic veterans will be returning to the Olympic stage to make a 4th appearance, namely Robert Heffernan, Olive Loughnane and Derek Burnett who will travel to their 4th consecutive Olympics and David Burrows, who made his Olympic debut way back in Atlanta in 1996 (missed out on Beijing).

Pherekydes

K_1 wrote: »

Jenny Egan races at 9.22 (8.22 here I think ) tomorrow morning.

7th place in the final.

Cosmo Kramer

K_1 what has Andrzej Jezierski been doing for the last seven years? How did he go from World Champion to nowhere and then all of a sudden from nowhere back to being Olympic standard?

Best of luck to him in the final - he could be qualifier number 50.

Dodge

Just to be clear, he was world champion as part of a four man group. He did win solo medals, but just wanted to point it out.

The article posted earlier mentions he has been living and working here for years. Preesumably there wasn't much money in canoeing so he thought he'd sort his family out

Dodge

http://www.kayakpl.com/2012/EOQ/59.HTM

Andrzej goes in Lane 5. Top 2 advance.

Dan man

Annalise Muprhy wins another race at the Laser Radial Sailing World Championships in Boltenhagen. She finished 2nd in race number 6 also, really impressive racing by the young Irish woman. She continues to climb the leaderboard and is now up to 15th place overall and her scorecard now after 6 races reads (65), 33, 1, 2, 1, 2.
These latest results underline how dominant she can be in her fleet. She is such an exciting prospect for London 2012, just needs to get rid of that odd really bad race that she tends to have, otherwise she is a medal contender, no doubt about it.

Dan man

Andrzej Jezierski qualifies for London 2012 Olympics in the men's C1 200m canoe sprint. Ireland has it's 50th qualifier! He finished second in the final behind the Slovakian paddler. Well done Andrzej, excellent news.

Dodge

Andrezj finishes 2nd and qualifies for London!

K_1

Dodge wrote: »

Andrezj finishes 2nd and qualifies for London!

Brilliant! How do you have the result when its not up on the site yet?!

Dodge

its up now. A guy involved with the Olympic team tweeted result

http://www.kayakpl.com/2012/EOQ/59.HTM

K_1

Dodge wrote: »

its up now. A guy involved with the Olympic team tweeted result

http://www.kayakpl.com/2012/EOQ/59.HTM

http://eurovision.digotel.com/icf/index.html

Video here, conditions horrendous.

Dan man

The poor guy from Hungary was left at the start, gotta feel for him.

K_1

Dan man wrote: »

The poor guy from Hungary was left at the start, gotta feel for him.

Yeah,after 2 false starts too! Although he was the slowest qualifier.

Great result for Jezierski, 3 athletes from canoeing qualified in total!