It’s another busy day for Team Ireland at the Olympic Games.
Team Ireland have won another medal at the Olympic Games, this time in rowing.
Rowers Philip Doyle and Daire Lynch have taken bronze after finishing third in the Men’s Double Sculls Final.
The duo finished behind Romania in first and the Netherlands in second. The success marks Ireland’s fourth ever rowing medal at an Olympic Games.
It is Ireland’s fourth medal of the Paris Games.
Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, Paris. Men’s Double Sculls Final A – Ireland’s Daire Lynch and Philip Doyle after finishing third. Photo: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Elsewhere, the Women’s four team have won the B final, which means they finished 7th overall, while Alison Bergin and Zoe Hyde finished fourth in the women’s Double Sculls B final to finish 10th overall.
Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove can also secure a medal today.
A top-4 finish in the Men’s Skiff medal race will guarantee them a place on the podium.
Staying on the water, and Finn Lynch and Eve McMahon get their respective dinghy campaigns underway.
Noel Hendrick goes in the Semi Finals of the Men’s K1 Canoe Slalom this afternoon.
Jack Marley can secure Ireland’s second boxing medal of the games with victory over Davlat Boltaev of Tajikistan in the men’s heavyweight quarter-finals.
And Daina Moorehouse will make her Olympic debut, facing World Championship bronze medallist Wassila Lkhadiri in the flyweight last-16.
Last night, Roscommon Middleweight Aoife O’Rourke was beaten by Poland’s Elzbieta Wojcik in a contentious split decision.
In the pool this morning, Tom Fannon has won his heat in the 50-metre freestyle, breaking his previous Irish record in the process. He’ll return to the pool for the semi finals this evening.
Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry represent Ireland in the men’s golf, which is underway at Le Golf National. McIlroy is three under par halfway through his round, while Lowry is level par through four holes. Hideki Matsuyama and Matthias Schmid lead on 6 under par.
It’s do or die for the Ireland men’s hockey team today, if they want to progress to the quarter-finals.
Only a win will do against Argentina – that gets underway at 12.15pm.
Cian O’Connor is part of the Irish Showjumping team that will take part in qualifying this morning.
The top ten of the 20 countries involved will advance to the final.
