Eight Irish athletes will compete on Day Five of the Paralympic Games in Paris. However, the timings of the Para triathlon events and the swimming element in the River Seine still need to be confirmed.

RTÉ will have three bursts of coverage, at 0900, 1600 and 1900, featuring Daráine Mulvihill, Joanne O’Riordan, Evanne Ní Chuilinn, Ailbhe Kelly, Catherine Walsh and Jason Smyth.

Here is when and in what the Irish athletes are competing.

 

Team Ireland Paralympics

09:37 Deaten Registe Para Swimming SB14 100 metre Breaststroke Heat

10:43 Shauna Bocquet Para Athletics T54 1500 metres heat

11:05 TBC Chloe MacCombe and Catherine Sands Para triathlon PTVI

11:05 TBC Judith MacCombe and Eimear Nichols Para triathlon PTVI

11:40 Cassie Cava Para triathlon PTS4

12:45 Colin Judge Para Table Tennis Round of 16 

09:37 Deaten Registe Para Swimming SB14 100 metre Breaststroke Heat **

** If Advancing to the Final

 

And here is a little more about each of them as individuals

 

Deaten Registe

Deaten is a newcomer to the Irish Para swim team and will make his Paralympic debut in Paris. His first major international performance was at the 2024 Para Swimming European Championships in Madeira, where he placed 4th in the 100m Breaststroke final.

 

Shauna Boquet

Shauna will make her Paralympic debut in Paris in August. She first appeared for Ireland at the Para Athletics World Championships last summer.

The rising para athletics star posted three personal bests over one weekend in June at the WPA Grand Prix in Switzerland, pushing 11:07:20 in the 5k, 16.38 in the 100m and 3:17.22 in the 1500m. She then broke her personal best in the 1500m at the Daniela Jutzeier Memorial.

Bocquet took to the track in the 800m Wheelchair Women at the Wanda Diamond League in London this July and stormed home setting a new PB of 1:48.42 and a 4th place finish.

She is a student at Atlantic Technological University studying Sport and Exercise Science. She will be starting her third year in September.

Bocquet played a pivotal role in developing the new athletics track in Craughwell. In October 2020, during Covid, she did her first marathon (26 miles is 42km) on a 5km road loop, which she completed in two hours and 22 minutes as part of “The 42 Challenge”, which raised €50,000 and funded the initial groundworks. A combination of further fundraising and government funding raised the rest of the €355,000 costs, and the track was completed in three years in a place that describes itself as ‘the village that loves athletics’.

 

Chloe MacCombe and Catherine Sands

 

Chloe will make her Paralympic debut in Paris with her guide, Catherine Sands. She took up triathlon just over five years ago and won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022.

Chloe qualified for Paris 2024 3rd in the world rankings.

 

Chloe is a twin sister of fellow teammate Judith MacCombe. The sisters have a form of albinism which affects their vision.

 

Judith MacCombe and Eimear Nichols

 

Judith will also be making her Paralympic debut in Paris with her guide Eimear Nicholls. She took up triathlon just over five years ago and competed in the in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022.

Judith qualified for Paris 2024 9th in the world rankings.

She is a twin sister of fellow teammate Chloe MacCombe. The sisters have a form of albinism which affects their vision.

Eimear is an accomplished sportswoman; she began her professional triathlon career in 2011. In 2012, she won Ironman UK in Bolton and the Ironman 70.3 in Somerset. She became the first Irish winner of the Ironman and is the current Irish Ironman record holder with a time of 8.56.51 (Ironman Barcelona 2015). In 2013, she suspended her teaching career to devote herself fully to her sporting career and joined the TBB team, where Bella Bayliss and Brett Sutton coached her.

She was named Irish triathlete of the year in 2014 following a sensational year that saw her claim victories at Challenge Rimini, Ironman UK 70.3, Embrunman, Ironman Mallorca, and Challenge Sardinia, along with a host of other podium placings. In the same year, Mullan was also a member of the Northern Irish team at the Commonwealth Games Mixed Team Relay, where she helped Team NI to a sixth-place finish.

After a long injury break, Eimear returned to racing in November 2017 with a victory at Ironman 70.3 Xiamen in China.

 

Cassie Cava

 

Cassie Cava competed for Team GB until 2017, switching to Ireland in 2018 when she won the PTS4 category of WPS Edmonton. Cassie went on to win bronze at the 2018 and 2019 World Triathlon Grand Finals.

 

Colin Judge

 

Paris will be Colin’s second Paralympic Games. He came agonisingly close to qualifying for the 2016 Paralympics in Rio and was ranked fourth in the world in Class 2 in 2017.

He won the Class 2 European title in 2017 but was reclassified to Class TT3 in May 2018 which significantly increased the numbers and standard of his competitors.

A recipient of an Ad Astra scholarship while he studied at UCD, he took a career break from his job as an actuary with KPMG in 2019 to train full-time for Tokyo. In 2020, he won double gold (singles and team) at the Polish Open and double bronze (singles and team) at the Spanish Open.

He qualified for Tokyo by winning a bronze medal at the World Qualifying Tournament in Slovenia in June 2021.

In 2023, Judge won bronze medals at the European Championships and the French Open. His form continued into 2024 when he won silver at the Czech Open.

Colin was born without both legs and part of his right arm. He plays with his right arm.

Eight-time Paralympian Michael Cunningham is among his training partners in Ireland. He trains in Irishtown Stadium and at the Sport Ireland Institute and competes for the UCD Table Tennis Club.

He was one of Ireland’s flag bearers at the Opening Ceremony of the Games.

 

 

 

 

 

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