2009 Cork Athletics Games
Written by: nicky in Upcoming Events on
Aug 28, 2009
The 2009 Cork Athletics Games are being organised by the Cork Wheelchair Sport & Youth Club. These games are open to Junior, Intermediate, Development, and Senior ‘Open and closed' athletes. These games are focused on fun and participation!
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Irish National Wheelchair Tennis Championships
Written by: nicky in Tennis, Reports & Results on
Aug 26, 2009
in association with INVACARE Ireland.
The fantastic facilities of David Lloyd, Riverview played host to the Irish National Wheelchair Championships from the 21st to the 23rd of August.
The tournament began on Friday afternoon with many exciting games being played out between contestants from all parts of Ireland, Scotland, England and Brazil using a round robin format to determine the ultimate finalists for the finals being held on Sunday.
Peter Moore and Jason Black contested the A Final on Sunday morning with Jason taking the title winning out 6-1, 6-2.
In the B Final Gary Craig and Jean Daly met with Jean Daly ultimately taking the title by winning 6-0, 6-2.
In the A doubles final, singles finalists Peter Moore and Jason Black paired up to face Ivor Jess and Stafford Lynn with Peter and Jason winning out
The B doubles final saw Jean Daly and Dave Bowyer beat Paul Gallagher and Christine Doyle 6-2, 6-2.
Overall the tournament received excellent feedback from the players and IWA – Sport would like to thank the sponsors INVACARE and Neil Harvey for sponsoring the prizemoney and the plates.
IWA – Sport would particularly like to thank Tennis Ireland for all the assistance in running the event, tournament referees Jim Watt and George Stevenson and Mark Bullock from the International Tennis Federation who travelled from the UK to present a coaching workshop to Tennis Ireland coaches on the Friday evening.
IWAS Junior World Championships, Notwil, Switzerland
Written by: nicky in Reports & Results, Athletics on
Aug 26, 2009
6 athletes and 3 staff did Ireland proud on the world stage during the IWAS Junior World Championships.
Despite having no track athletes on board, Ireland still finished 11th of 20 countries with 7 medals.
The team returned with a medals tally of 3 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.
Our medallists were Lorraine Regan who won gold in shot, silver in discus and bronze in javelin. Orla barry won gold in discus. Jamie Boyle won gold in discus and silver in shot. And David Berry won bronze medal in discus.
This was a very competitive world class games for athletes under 23 and is becoming harder to win medals every year since its inception in 2005. Team manager Seamus Wall, coach Pat Furlong and staff Aisling Wall were more than happy with the way the athletes performed and trained despite mixed weather conditions which varied between very hot and very cold.
Congratulations to the entire team who are already looking forward to the Czech Republic in 2010.
IWA – Sport National Basketball Squad European Championships
Written by: nicky in Reports & Results, Basketball on
Aug 25, 2009
The IWA Sport National Basketball Squad recently travelled to Latvia to participate in the European Wheelchair Basketball Championships Division C.
The standard was extremely high and indeed many of the teams participating included both full time professional and semi professional players.
Congratulations to the squad for their ongoing hard work and dedication to the training throughout the season past and their performance at the tournament.
Particular mention must be given to the hard working management team of Alain Tremblay, Quentin Barry and Orla Dempsey.
