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Medals in Current Games

Medals in Current Games
Rank Men Women MixedOpenTotal Total
Rank
1 2 3 Total 1 2 3 Total 1 2 3 Total 1 2 3 Total 1 2 3 Total
32 1 0 1 2 3 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 7 41

General Interest

Ireland has sent a delegation of athletes to each edition of the Paralympic Games since 1960. The NPC won two gold medals on its first appearance at the Games in Rome, with Joan Horan claiming Paralympic titles in both swimming and archery.

Rosaleen Gallagher competed at the five editions of the Games between 1968 and 1984, and is among Ireland's most outstanding Paralympians. The majority of her success came in athletics, where she won gold in pentathlon, shot put, and wheelchair racing, but she also secured podium finishes at the Games in swimming, table tennis, and archery.

Other notable Irish Paralympians include Gerard Dunne, who won nine medals [four gold, one silver, four bronze] in swimming across the 1984 and 1988 Games, and Tom Leahy, whose record includes gold medals in both athletics [discus throw] and boccia. Leahy [between 1984 and 2012] also shares the Irish appearance record at the Paralympic Games with John Twomey [from 1984 to 2016], with both athletes competing at eight editions of the Games

More recently, sprinter Jason Smyth has won five individual athletics gold medals. He claimed the men's T13 100m and 200m titles at both Beijing 2008 and London 2012, and also successfully defended his 100m crown again at the Rio Games in 2016. Smyth's athletics teammate Michael McKillop impressed in his first three Paralympic Games, securing gold in the T37 800m [2008 and 2012] and T37 1500m [2012 and 2016].

Website
http://www.paralympics.ie/

Anthem

Amhran na bhFiann [The Soldier's Song]
Words by Peadar Kearney and Liam O Rinn, music by Peadar Kearney and Patrick Heeney.
1926

Flagbearers

IRL
 Sport Class: T47
IRL
 Sport Class: PWL

Membership

Paralympics Ireland
1989

Officials

Eimear Breathnach

Participation

1960
16 [Tokyo 2020 included]
Medals per sport
SportGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Archery1102
Athletics373963139
Boccia3126
Cycling Road43310
Equestrian0134
Football 7-a-side0123
Lawn Bowls72312
Snooker1304
Swimming1010929
Table Tennis35917
Total666694226

Medals per year
YearGoldSilverBronzeTotal
201644311
201283516
20083115
20040314
20005319
199613610
19920347
198813111842
198420153166
1980421117
1976410620
19722428
19680459
19602002
Total666694226
Legend
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Gold Medal
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Silver Medal
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Bronze Medal
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Gold Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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