1988 Summer Olympics / Participant (Ireland)

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Ireland participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , South Korea , with a delegation of 61 athletes (52 men and nine women).

Participants by sport

Archery

• Joe Malone

  Individual: 69th place

• Noel Lynch

  Singles: 74th place

• Hazel Greene Pereira

  Women, singles: 38th place

Boxing

• Wayne McCullough

  Light flyweight: 9th place

• Joe Lawlor

  Flyweight: 17th place

• John Lowey

  Bantamweight: 9th place

• Paul Fitzgerald

  Featherweight: 17th place

• Michael Carruth

  Lightweight: 9th place

• Billy Walsh

  Welterweight: 33rd place

• Kieran Joyce

  Middleweight: 9th place

Judo

• Eugene McManus

  Lightweight: 19th place

canoe

• Pat Holmes

  Single kayak, 1000 meters: semi-finals

  Two-person kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals

• Alan Carey

  Two-person kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals

• Declan Burns

  Two-person kayak, 1000 meters: semi-finals

• Peter Connor

  Two-person kayak, 1000 meters: semi-finals

athletics

• Marcus O'Sullivan

  1500 meters: 8th place

• Gerry O'Reilly

  1500 meters: heats

• John Doherty

  5000 meters: 9th place

• Eamonn Coghlan

  5000 meters: semi-finals

• Frank O'Mara

  5000 meters: heats

• Dick Hooper

  Marathon: 24th place

• John Frances Woods

  Marathon: 52nd place

• John Treacy

  Marathon: DNF

• Thomas Joseph Kearns

  110 meter hurdles: quarter-finals

• Brendan Quinn

  3000 meter obstacle: semi-finals

• Jimmy McDonald

  20 kilometers of walking: 17th place

• Conor McCullough

  Hammer throw: 24th place in qualification

• Terry McHugh

  Javelin throw: 22nd place in qualification

• Carlos O'Connell

  Decathlon: 29th place

• Ann Keenan-Buckley

  Women, 3000 meters: heats

• Ailish Smyth

  Women, marathon: 46th place

• Marie Murphy-Rollins

  Women, marathon: 57th place

• Barbara Johnson

  Women, 400 meter hurdles: prelims

Cycling

• Cormac McCann

  Road race, individual: 45th place

  100 kilometers team time trial: 19th place

• John McQuaid

  Road race, individual: 49th place

  100 kilometers team time trial: 19th place

• Paul McCormack

  Road race, singles: 81st place

• Philip Cassidy

  100 kilometers team time trial: 19th place

• Stephen Spratt

  100 kilometers team time trial: 19th place

horse riding

• James Walsh

  Dressage, singles: 51st place

• Jack Doyle

  Show jumping, singles: 20th place

  Show jumping, team: 11th place

• Gerard Mullins

  Show jumping, singles: final

  Show jumping, team: 11th place

• Paul Darragh

  Show jumping, singles: Eliminated in qualification

  Show jumping, team: 11th place

• John Ledingham

  Show jumping, singles: Eliminated in qualification

  Show jumping, team: 11th place

• David Foster

  Eventing, individual: 16th place

• John Watson

  Eventing, individual: DNF

Wrestling

• David Harmon

  Welterweight, freestyle: group stage

rowing

• Patrick McDonagh

  Two with a helmsman: semi-finals

• Frank Moore

  Two with a helmsman: semi-finals

• Liam Williams

  Two with a helmsman: semi-finals

swim

• Stephen Cullen

  200 meters freestyle: 50th place

  100 meters back: 29th place

  100 meters back: 27th place

• Richard Gheel

  200 meters freestyle: 57th place

  100 meters back: 36th place

  200 meters back: 25th place

• Gary O'Toole

  100 meters chest: 34th place

  200 meters chest: 18th place

  200 meter medley: 20th place

• Michelle Smith

  Women, 100 meters back: 27th place

  Women, 200 meters back: 17th place

  Women, 200 meter medley: 26th place

  Women, 400 meter medley: 25th place

• Aileen Convery

  Women, 100 meters back: 29th place

  Women, 200 meters back: 18th place

sailing

• Bill O'Hara

  Finn Dinghy: 21st place

• David Wilkins

  Flying Dutchman: 10th place

• Peter Kennedy

  Flying Dutchman: 10th place

• Aisling Byrne-Bowman

  Women, 470s: 18th place

• Cathy MacAleavey

  Women, 470s: 18th place

tennis

• Eoin Collins

  Doubles: 17th place

• Owen Casey

  Doubles: 17th place

Web links

• Irish Olympic Team from 1988 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )