1928 Summer Olympics / Participant (Ireland)

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Ireland participated in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , the Netherlands , with a delegation of 29 athletes (28 men and one woman).

Medalist

gold

Name (s)	sport	competition
Pat O'Callaghan	athletics	Hammer throwing

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Myles McDonagh

  Flyweight: 9th place

• Frank Traynor

  Bantamweight: 4th place

• George Kelly

  Featherweight: 17th place

• William O'Shea

  Lightweight: 17th place

• Patrick Lenehan

  Welterweight: 9th place

• John Chase

  Middleweight: 5th place

• Boy Murphy

  Lightweight: 5th place

• Matthew Flanagan

  Heavyweight: 9th place

athletics

• Denis Cussen

  100 meters: quarter-finals

• Dan Cullen

  200 meters: heats

• Sean Lavan

  200 meters: heats

  400 meters: quarter-finals

• Norman MacEachern

  800 meters: semi-finals

• Gerry Coughlan

  800 meters: heats

  3,000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Alister Clark

  110 meter hurdles: prelims

• Paddy Anglim

  Long jump: 21st place in qualification

• Theo Phelan

  Triple jump: 19th place in qualification

• Pat O'Callaghan

  Hammer throw: gold

• Con O'Callaghan

  Decathlon: DNF

Cycling

• John Woodcock

  Road race, individual: 44th place

• Bertie Donnelly

  Sprint: 2nd round

  1,000 meter time trial: 11th place

swim

• William Broderick

  400 meters freestyle: prelims

• Marguerite Dockrell

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: prelims

Water polo

• Men's team

  9th place

• Squad

  Stan Moore

  Norman Judd

  Michael O'Connor

  Thomas Dockrell

  John O'Connor

  Patrick McClure

  Charles Fagan

Web links

• Irish Olympic Team from 1928 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )