Jason Smyth
Hometown: Derry Coach: Classification: T13 Disability Group: Vision Impaired Jason is the fastest Paralympian of all-time and still holds the World and Paralympic records in T13 100m (10:46) and 200m (21.05), which he set at the London Paralympics in 2012. He won double T13 sprint gold on his Paralympic debut in Beijing 2008, retained them […]
Niamh McCarthy
Hometown: Cork Coach: Alison O’Riordan Classification: F41 Disability Group: Niamh was one of Ireland’s sensational ‘Rebel Treble’ of medal-winning discus throwers from Cork in Rio 2016, winning F41 discus silver on her Paralympic debut with her penultimate throw of 26.67m. That came less than three years after she was first identified through a Paralympics Ireland […]
Jordan Lee
Hometown: Killarney Coach: Classification: T47 Disability Group: Jordan, who was born with a foreshortened left arm, was a sporting ground-breaker even before he turned to Para athletics because, in his teens, he was the first one-handed player to ever represent their Country Nationally in the World, when he played for Ireland at age 15. A […]
Mary Fitzgerald
Hometown: Kilkenny Coach: John McCarthy Classification: F40 Disability Group: Mary first encountered throwing through an induction day with the Irish Wheelchair Association when she was 11 and immediately fell in love with it. She is a person of small stature and competed in the World Dwarf Games in Michigan in 2013. She was selected to […]
Patrick Monahan
PATRICK MONAHAN Hometown: Naas, Co Kildare Coach: Classification: Disability Group: Acquired A car accident in 2007 left Pat in the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) for three months and a wheelchair user since but, since his first marathon, in Dublin, in 2013 which he completed in two hours and 38 minutes, he has become world-class. He […]
Patrick Flanagan’s Wheelchair Damaged
Irish Para Swimmer, Patrick Flanagan’s wheelchair sustained damage whilst being transported on a flights between Fuerteventura, Madrid and London Heathrow on August 13th. The flights, that were operated by Iberian Airlines left Fuerteventura on August 13th at 11:00 stopping in Madrid at 14:40 before continuing on to London Heathrow at 15:45 and landing on London […]
Team Ireland Departs for Paralympic Games
Team Ireland’s Para Athletics team assembled at Dublin Airport this morning to board Aer Lingus flight EI 154 on the first leg of their journey to Japan ahead of the Paralympic Games. Para Table Tennis player, Colin Judge joined the Para Athletics team as the last large departure for Team Ireland to the Paralympic Games. […]
Eight Athletes Named to Represent Ireland in Para Athletics
Paralympics Ireland have named a strong Para Athletics Team to represent Team Ireland at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The world’s fastest Paralympian, Jason Smyth, will be the returning for his 4th Paralympic Games where he will hope to extend his amazing record of never having lost a competitive Para Athletics race. He will be […]
Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy Age: 24 Hometown: lives in St Barnet, Mill Hill, West London. Coach: Elder Klatzko Horse: Clever Boy Classification: Grade I Events: Individual Test, Team Test, Freestyle. Michael qualified for Tokyo on his previous horse (Skjoldsgaard Hipp-vo) with whom he was 12th at the 2019 European Championships. He says COVID restrictions actually helped him […]
Kate Kerr Horan
Kate Kerr-Horan Age: 28 Hometown: Tinahely, Co Wicklow. Coach: Donie McNamara. Horse: Serafina T Classification: Grade III. Events: Individual Test, Team Test, Freestyle. This is Kate’s first Paralympics and she has been partnering Serafina for three years. She has been on the Irish High Performance team since 2011, was ninth in the World Equestrian Games […]
Rosemary Gaffney
Rosemary Gaffney Age: 62 Hometown: Clonmel, Co Tipperary. Coach: Sue Smallman. Classification: Grade IV. Horse: Werona Events: Individual Test, Freestyle Classification: Grade IV. Rosemary is particularly delighted to make her Paralympic debut in Tokyo after being Ireland’s ‘reserve’ for London 2012 and Rio 2016. She has ridden since she was five but two major accidents […]
Tamsin Addison
Tamsin Addison Age: 48 Hometown: Radnage, Buckinghamshire. Coach: Joyce Fearn. Horse: Fahrenheit (10 year old Danish Warm Blood, bay gelding) Classification: Grade V Events: Individual Test, Team Test, Freestyle Tamsin, who is born and based in England, became the first person in the world to regrow a bone in her upper arm (humerus) after being […]
