Paddy Bermingham (athlete) explained

Patrick Joseph Bermingham (15 March 1886 – January 1959)[1] was an Irish police officer and sportsman, specialising in the discus.[2] He was from Moyasta[3] in County Clare and joined the Dublin Metropolitan Police.[2] [4]

Bermingham won ten Irish national discus titles: IAAA titles in 1919 and 1920, and NACAI titles in 1923–4–5–6–7, 1930, 1932, and 1933.[5] He held the Irish record at 151feet until 1939.[2] He won five English AAA discus titles: 1924–5–6, 1932, and 1934.[6] He also won four Irish titles in each of the 56 lbs weight throw events: for height (1923, 1925–6, 1929) and for distance (1923, 1925–6–7).[2] [5] He represented Ireland at the 1924 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated in the qualifying round of the discus competition; his longest throw would have qualified for the final six but was discounted as a foul.[2] His best mark of 40.42m (132.61feet) ranked him eleventh overall.[7] He is recorded as having competed in the 1934 British Empire Games, though sources vary as to whether he represented the Irish Free State or Northern Ireland.[8] [9] He finished outside the top seven.

He is buried in Mount Jerome cemetery.[1]

Several online football databases mistakenly suggest that Bermingham also played for the Irish Free State national football team vs Hungary in 1934, but that was a different Patrick Joseph Bermingham.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Irish Independent . 24 Jan 1959 .
  2. Book: Coiste Siamsa . Jubilee; A souvenir of 50 historic years of sport in the Garda Síochána . 1972 . Garda Síochána . 19.
  3. http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Clare/Einagh/Moyasta/1079464/ 1901 census
  4. Web site: Paddy Bermingham . Olympedia . 1 October 2021.
  5. Web site: Roll of Honour; Irish Athletics Champions 1873–2013. O'Callaghan. Pierce. Cyril Smyth. 2013. Athletics Ireland. 100, 119, 122. 22 May 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140305211313/http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/copy-of-roh-outdoor-1873-2012-final-version.pdf#page=100. 5 March 2014.
  6. Web site: British Athletics Championships 1919-1939. 2007. Athletics Weekly. 22 May 2013.
  7. Book: French Olympic Committee . French Olympic Committee . M.A. Avé . Les Jeux de la VIIIe Olympiade Paris 1924: rapport officiel. . c. 1925 . Librairie de France . Paris . French . 140 . TITRE III / ATHLÉTISME / ÉPREUVE No 18: LANCEMENT DU DISQUE . 2013-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110505163114/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924part1.pdf#page=138 . 2011-05-05 . dead .
  8. Web site: Pat Bermingham. Athlete Performance. Commonwealth Games Federation. 22 May 2013.
  9. Book: Phillips, Bob. Honour of Empire, Glory of Sport: The History of Athletics at the Commonwealth Games. 22 May 2013. 2000. Parrs Wood Press. 9781903158098. 25.
  10. News: Irish Times . 9 Nov 1970 .

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