Each weekend we take a look back on the sporting highs from across Ireland and around the world through the medium of numbers.
33
For the second time in four games of the Allianz Football League, Kerry scored the equivalent of 33 points, running up 6-15 against Tyrone after starting the campaign with 4-21 against Galway. To put that in context it is ten points more than the highest score Dublin have hit in any of the last three years of the same competition.
4
Cavan and Tipperary were the stories of last year’s Championship spanning decades to win their first Ulster and Munster Football Championships. After a ‘back to reality’ Allianz League season though both will compete in Division Four next season
19
Novak Djokovic won his 19th Grand Slam title at the French Open, putting him one behind Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal. He also became the first player of the modern era to win two titles at each of the four main events of the year.
6
The finishing position in the European Championships secured by the Irish Women’s Hockey team after a 3-0 win over Italy.
29
The age of Christian Eriksen whose cardiac arrest on the pitch during Saturday’s European Championship game sent shock around the sporting world. On the spot CPR is being suggested as having been critical in saving his life.
Here is a list of CPR courses operated around the country and approved by the Irish Heart Foundation
1
Just shy of his 37th birthday, Jonathan Caldwell won his first event on the European Tour at the Scandinavian Mixed Open with a closing round of 64. Caldwell played on the Walker Cup-winning team in 2007 alongside Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy.
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