What's your finest sporting achievement?

RATM · 04-05-2010 01:35PM #1

Doesn't matter the sport- ping pong excepted

So what is your finest sporting hour since birth, regardless of what age it happened at.

For me then I guess the pinnacle of my sporting career was the U-15 GAA at school when we won and I was a underused substitute

I have since sailed across the Atlantic and I can snowboard even the steepest of slopes but I'm guessing that U-15 GAA final is as near as I'm ever going to get to sporting greatness

Danbo! · 04-05-2010 01:36PM

RATM wrote: »

Doesn't matter the sport- ping pong excepted

So, can I refer to ping pong or not?

bonerm · 04-05-2010 01:37PM

I once flew across the Atlantic. Boy were my arms were tired by the time I got to New York!

orourkeda · 04-05-2010 01:38PM

Playing a 7 under par round of pitch and putt in a scratch cup when i was half drunk.

damagegt · 04-05-2010 01:41PM

I won the welly toss at my local pattern when i was 7 and scored myself a pound.I haven't really done much to eclipse that.

Stinicker · 04-05-2010 01:44PM

bonerm wrote: »

I once flew across the Atlantic. Boy were my arms were tired by the time I got to New York!

Leg and arm room these days are so tight on the airlines.

Captain Darling · 04-05-2010 01:46PM

Individual sporting act would be scoring a volley from inside the centre circle at a junior soccer match. Hit it super sweet, curled all the way and hit off the post and went in. Made all the sweeter the fact that i gave away a penalty in the same game, so that made up for it.

Went onto win well.

Seloth · 04-05-2010 01:50PM

Winning a Potatoe sack race when I was 5

Lol I have done allot f others stuff,specially with Long distance Running but the bag race is always my favourite

4zn76tysfajdxp · 04-05-2010 01:53PM

I win the one-man tug of war contest I hold in my room every night.

hacx · 04-05-2010 01:55PM

2nd place in my 4th Class spud and spoon race.

oisinmc14 · 04-05-2010 01:56PM

Captain of the U-12 B-team*

*we lost every match....lol

MysticFred · 04-05-2010 02:00PM

Came 3rd in the egg and spoon in 1982. I was in 5th class in Dundalk. I can still remember that feeling of ecstasy.

Thanks OP. A moment of euphoric recall.

FortuneChip · 04-05-2010 02:00PM

Shot five under on the back nine of my local P&P course to shoot my first ever level par round. That was about a year ago.
Think that ranks high. Now if I break a 100 in golf any time soon, that will replace it

Agricola · 04-05-2010 02:01PM

Gold medal in 1st year of secondary school for 6 team soccer tournament! Was given it at a proper awards ceremony in the school hall after all the proper athletes (hurlers presenting the school) were given theirs.

I reasoned there was no topping those heights, so I retired to concentrate on the academic side of things!*

* Thats how I recall things, others say it was cos i was shít!

ibarelycare · 04-05-2010 02:03PM

North Leinster Hula Hoop Champion 1992

RATM · 04-05-2010 02:09PM

ibarelycare wrote: »

North Leinster Hula Hoop Champion 1992

Eating competitions don't count as sport :pac:

Tubberadora · 04-05-2010 02:25PM

I shot -11 in a pitch and putt qualifier for the Munster Intermediate Strokeplay and didnt qualify. It would have been enough to qualify for the senior but lost out on the back nine to somebody.
I played U14 hurling for Tipp.
Personally my favourite achievement though would be making my secondary schools senior team when I was 15. I was the youngest on it by a bit, and the only 3rd year on the team.

L.Jenkins · 04-05-2010 02:34PM

Finishing in the top 8000 out of 12000 runners in the Dublin City marathon, then driving home in agony having to stop every few miles to get out and walk. Left Athlone at 4am and arrived back at 9pm that night, good times.

tony1kenobi · 04-05-2010 02:38PM

Kumite runner up 1988.

Pride Fighter · 04-05-2010 02:39PM

3rd place, karate world championships. Mens sparring competition, purple, blue, green belt division.

AnonoBoy · 04-05-2010 02:41PM

Scored the winning penalty against Romania in World Cup '90.*

*

Subbuteo World Cup that is

thetonynator · 04-05-2010 02:43PM

Was going to post a serious achievement here, but no one else has so maybe not . . .

consultech · 04-05-2010 02:44PM

134 snooker break. An accumulation of 6 hours practice per day for about 4 years. Played for Ireland too...

helimachoptor · 04-05-2010 02:46PM

Many moons ago in the Carriglea mini world cup (6-a-side), we played the top team who beat us 7-0. We played them in the final and they hadnt lost a game. Only 3 players turned up. So one of the lads got in goals, me and the other lad played out field. 15 mins a side, ten minutes left i manager to get clean through on goal but one of their defenders makes a last ditch tackle before i pull the trigger.

A couple of minutes later i get clean through again and end up putting in through the keepers legs and in it goes. At this stage there's 2-300 people crowding the side lines, I end up going crowd surfing.

The match restarts, and 5-6 minutes of last ditch defending happen, we win, i'm a hero! What a day!

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 04-05-2010 02:49PM

I took a hard plastic football in the face a few times.

Lux23 · 04-05-2010 02:49PM

Shagging in a Peugeot 206.

TPD · 04-05-2010 02:50PM

Potted 3 balls on the break in a game of pool, all the one colour.
Cower in fear at my awesome sporting ability!

El Guapo! · 04-05-2010 02:56PM

Done a lap of Mary Harney in just under an hour :cool:

ucdmike · 04-05-2010 02:57PM

Up until a few days ago it was beating John Higgins in a frame of snooker. Now I'm beginning to think he may have let me win.....

ScumLord · 04-05-2010 03:02PM

Breaking a golf club in half and storming off the 3rd in a furious anger (into a field of cattle) because I'd already lost 6 golf balls.

flas · 04-05-2010 03:02PM

winning leinster youths cup couple of years ago then year after gettin to semi-final of under 21 eircom league!winning our group at kennedy cup years ago and regularly winning our football league!also few county medals but that was gaelic and we all stopped playing for them when they tried o make us choose which sport we would play so we all choose the football(soccer)!god that gaelic team instantly lost about 6 of our starting team!

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