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 […]
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 […]
Nicole Turner
NICOLE TURNER Hometown: Portarlington, Co Laois Coach: David Malone Classification: S6 Disability Group: Hypocondroplasia Events: S6 50m Butterfly, SB6 100m Breaststroke, SM6 200m Individual Medley (IM) Nicole won a silver medal in the Youth category of the British Internationals on her senior international debut in 2015 and went on to reach six finals and swim […]
Róisín Ní Riain
ROISIN NI RIAIN Hometown: Drombanna, Co Limerick Coach: John Szaranek Classification: S13 Disability Group: Visually impaired Events: S13 100m Backstroke, S13 100m Butterfly, SB13 100m Breaststroke, S13 50m & 200m Freestyle, SM13 200m Individual Medley (IM) Roisin, from Limerick Swimming Club, is Paralympic Ireland’s youngest athlete in the Tokyo Paralympics. She announced her arrival on […]
Ellen Keane
ELLEN KEANE Age: 26 Hometown: Clontarf, Dublin Coach: David Malone. Classification: S8/9 Disability group: Amputee. Events:SB8 100m Breaststroke, S9 100m Backstroke, SM9 200m Individual Medley (IM). Personal Bests: 1:22.00, 1:15.44, 2:39.61. Season Bests: 1:22:21, 1:15:90, 2:40.74. Ellen, a bronze medallist in Rio 2016, is competing in her fourth Paralympic Games in Tokyo. She is an […]
