Noc: | IRL |
Year: | 2018 |
Games: | Winter Olympics |
Games Link: | 2018 Winter Olympics |
Flagcaption: | Flag of Ireland |
Alt: | Refer to caption |
Nocname: | Olympic Federation of Ireland |
Location: | Pyeongchang, South Korea |
Date: | 9–25 February 2018 |
Competitors: | 5 |
Competitors Men: | 4 |
Competitors Women: | 1 |
Sports: | 4 |
Flagbearer: | Seamus O'Connor[1] |
Gold: | 0 |
Silver: | 0 |
Bronze: | 0 |
Appearances: | auto |
Ireland competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018. Five athletes represented the country in four sports.[2] [3] OCI Chief Executive Stephen Martin was chef de mission.[4] Ireland won no medals; the best finish was by Seamus O'Connor in the men's halfpipe snowboarding, who came 18th.
The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the delegation per sport.
width=120 | Sport ! | width=60 | Men ! | width=60 | Women ! | width=60 | Total |
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Alpine skiing | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Freestyle skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Snowboarding | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Total | 4 | 1 | 5 |
See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Ireland qualified two alpine skiers, one male and one female.[5]
Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
align=left rowspan=3 | Patrick McMillan | Men's combined | 1:25.77 | 61 | ||||
Men's downhill | 1:49.98 | 52 | ||||||
Men's super-G | 1:33.54 | 48 | ||||||
align=left rowspan=2 | Tess Arbez | Women's giant slalom | 1:22.12 | 56 | 1:18.12 | 50 | 2:40.24 | 50 |
Women's slalom | 59.47 | 51 | 59.00 | 47 | 1:58.47 | 46 |
See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Thomas Hjalmar Westgård, whose mother is from Dunmore, County Galway and who represented Ireland at the 2017 FIS Nordic World Championships,[6] competed for Ireland in 2018.[2] [7]
Athlete | Event | Classical | Freestyle | Total | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Deficit | Rank | ||
align=left rowspan=3 | Thomas Hjalmar Westgård | Men's 15 km freestyle | 37:36.6 | +3:52.7 | 63 | |||
Men's 30 km skiathlon | 44:48.3 | 57 | 41:12.7 | 60 | 1:32:34.2 | +16:14.2 | 60 | |
Men's 50 km classical |
See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification.
See main article: Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Seamus O'Connor competed at the 2014 games in the men's halfpipe and men's slopestyle events and received funding for the 2018 event.[8]