Ireland at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Ireland competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included forty-two athletes, thirty-four men and eight women.^[1] Irish competitors won four medals, three silver and one bronze to finish sixty-first in the medal table.^[2]

Ireland at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	IRL
NPC	Paralympics Ireland
Website	www.paralympics.ie
in Athens
Competitors	42 in 7 sports
Medals Ranked 61st	Gold 0 Silver 3 Bronze 1 Total 4
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Conal McNamara	Athletics	Men's 400m T13
Silver	John McCarthy	Athletics	Men's discus throw F32/51
Silver	David Malone	Swimming	Men's 100m backstroke S8
Bronze	Derek Malone	Athletics	Men's 800m T38

Sports

Athletics

Men's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
John Fulham	T53	100m	15.80	7 Q	—		15.67	6
		200m	27.98	12	did not advance
Derek Malone	T38	400m	54.35	7 q	—		54.84	7
		800m	—				2:01.76
Conal McNamara	T13	200m	23.58	9	did not advance
		400m	—				50.62

Men's field

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
			Result	Points	Rank
Garrett Culliton	F52	Discus	15.86	-	5
		Shot put	6.81	-	10
Garrett Jameson	F32/51	Club throw	26.32	890	7
Tom Leahy	F32	Shot put	5.96	-	7
John McCarthy	F32/51	Club throw	19.21	750	9
		Discus	9.74	1078

Women's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Patrice Dockery	T54	5000m	DNF		—		12:50.84	9
Catherine Walsh	T13	400m	—				1:05.99	6

Women's field

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
			Result	Points	Rank
Lisa Callaghan	F35-38	Javelin	24.12	1087	5
Rosemary Tallon	F33/34/52/53	Javelin	8.72	1214	4
Catherine Walsh	F13	Long jump	4.55	-	6

Boccia

Individual events

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opponent	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Gabriel Shelly	Mixed individual BC1	Beltran (ESP)	L 3-9	3	did not advance
		Taksee (THA)	L 2-9
		Pearse (GBR)	W 7-3
		Villano (ARG)	W 11-0
		Gahleitner (AUT)	W 6-1
Roberta Connolly	Mixed individual BC2	Ferreira (POR)	L 1-9	2 Q	P Silva (POR) L 0-5	did not advance
		Scalise (ARG)	W 4-1
		Kwok (HKG)	W 4-3
Keith Hayes		Murray (GBR)	L 1-8	2 Q	Flood (NZL) L 0-9	did not advance
		Femtegield (NOR)	W 5-4
		Tsilikopoulou (GRE)	W/O
Martina Murphy		Steirer (AUT)	L 0-7	4	did not advance
		Siddiqi (DEN)	L 4-10
		Mongkolpun (THA)	L 0-10
John Cronin	Mixed individual BC3	Hanson (USA)	L 2-5	4	did not advance
		Polychronidis (GRE)	L 1-4
		Macedo (POR)	L 3-7
		Bidlas (CZE)	W 14-0
Gerry O'Grady		Pesquera (ESP)	L 1-8	4	did not advance
		Kabush (CAN)	L 4-6
		Krenek (CZE)	L 2-3

Pairs/teams

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries			Semifinals	Final
		Opponent	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
John Cronin Gerry O'Grady	Pairs BC3	Pesquera (ESP) /  J M Rodriguez (ESP)	L 1-3	3	did not advance
		Jackson (NZL) /  Dijkstra (NZL)	L 0-10
		Bidlas (CZE) /  Krenek (CZE)	W 5-3
Roberta Connolly Keith Hayes Martina Murphy Gabriel Shelly	Mixed team BC1/2	Portugal (POR)	L 3-8	4	did not advance
		New Zealand (NZL)	L 3-9
		Hong Kong (HKG)	L 4-9
		Thailand (THA)	W 11-1
		Denmark (DEN)	W 7-3

Cycling

Men's road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Denis Toomey Mark Kehoe (pilot)	Men's road race/time trial tandem B1-3	34:52	19

Men's track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		1st round		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Ian Mahon Mark Kehoe (pilot)	Men's 1km time trial tandem B1-3	—				1:14.38	18
	Men's individual pursuit tandem B1-3	5:15.37	17	did not advance

Equestrian

Athlete	Event	Total
		Score	Rank
Breda Bernie	Mixed individual championship test grade II	55.000	17
	Mixed individual freestyle test grade II	61.833	19

Football 7-a-side

The men's team didn't win any medals: they were 7th out of 8 teams.

Players

• Aidan Brennan
• Andrew Clint
• Kieran Devlin
• Paul Dollard
• Darren Kavanagh
• Joseph Markey
• Gary Messett
• James Murrihy
• Brendan O'Grady
• Alan O'Hara
• Peter O'Neill
• Finbarr O'Riordan

Tournament

Game	Match	Score	Rank
1	Ireland vs.  Ukraine (UKR)	0 - 6	4
2	Ireland vs.  Argentina (ARG)	2 - 5
3	Ireland vs.  Iran (IRI)	2 - 7
7th/8th classification	Ireland vs.  United States (USA)	4 - 0	7

Judo

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final/ Bronze medal contest
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Michael Doyle	Men's 73kg	Krieger (GER) L 99-99	did not advance
Tony White	Men's 81kg	Jonard (FRA) L 0000-1000	—		Lopez (USA) L 0000-1000	did not advance

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
David Malone	S8	100m backstroke	1:13.64	3 Q	1:12.55
Aidan McGlynn	S9	50m freestyle	29.15	19	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Claire Conway	S9	100m butterfly	1:24.37	16	did not advance

See also

• Ireland at the Paralympics
• Ireland at the 2004 Summer Olympics