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The Paralympics is currently taking place in Paris.
There are 35 athletes representing Ireland in the games across nine different sports.
Ireland has competed in the Paralympic games every four years since its inception in Rome in 1960. Irish Paralympians have brought home a total of 233 medals since the Rome Games in 1960.
Now we have added two more medals to that haul.
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Róisín Ní Riain secured Ireland’s first medal of 2024. She went into Friday evening’s S13 100m backstroke final ranked second in the world.
She made sure to keep that spot as she walked away with the silver medal that evening.
How incredible!
“It’s a nice feeling to be able to win a medal tonight. There are always goals and expectations I have for myself,” she said after the race.
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“I was just really excited to get out tonight. I think that’s a really nice way to be. I wasn’t too nervous. I don’t get overly nervous. I get more excited and I’m genuinely very excited every time I get out to race, especially when the backstroke is probably my favourite event. I always love a race like that. We have so much more to come in the pool (Team Ireland). It’s only the start really for us.”
On Sunday, Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal nabbed the second medal of the games.
And we couldn’t be more proud!
They claimed their sixth Paralympic Games medal in Paris after winning silver in the B 3,000m individual pursuit in tandem cycling.
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This medal joins their haul of two golds and one silver won in Tokyo, as well as the one gold and one silver they secured in Rio.
After a decade cycling together, this race marked the end of their partnership. And it was certainly an emotional way to end.
We can’t wait to see where our next medal comes from!
