Each weekend we take a look back on the sporting highs from across Ireland and around the world through the medium of numbers.

100.35

Liam Jegou’s time in seconds on his final run in the World Cup Canoe Slalom in Pau. This was the first time Ireland had won Gold at the event and Jegou now has to be considered a live medal prospect for Tokyo having been the first Irish athlete to qualify for the games. He is from Ballyvaughan in County Clare though he relocated to Pau in France earlier this year to acclimatise to the track. Sunday was just reward for that level of attention to detail.

90 minutes and 57 seconds

They were level at half time, level at full time, and heading towards a potential equalising point in the 57th second of the one minute of injury time that was being played at the end of 90 minutes of high tension football in the semi-final of the Munster Football Championship. Cork were patient to beyond what felt like breaking point in trying to fashion an equaliser, just as they had done at the end of regular time. Then it was Luke Connolly with a long free that just made it over the line.

Kerry were up by two points, then up by one and the clock was ticking steadily down. A break through the defence, a pass when a shot was on, then recycle back to Connolly from a long way out but no choice. He sends it high into the Pairc Uí Caoimh floodlights. It’s not going to come around and its dropping short. Tommy Walsh one of two Kerry players who just need to get a touch and secure a Munster Final place. But it drops behind his shoulder and Mark Keane is there, all the way from Australia, he shoots, he scores, Kerry is out. Cork is in rapture.

7-14

It was not as close in Aughrim as Meath ran up what must be close to a Championship record in scoring 7 goals and 14 points against Wicklow.

4,000,000

The US Dollar prize pot for the Breeders Cup Turf horse race in Lexington, Kentucky on Saturday night. It was the first win at the prestigious meeting for trainer Dermot Weld and jockey Colin Keane. Keane was a late replacement for Christophe Soumillon who tested positive for Covid-19 on the eve of the race. Aidan O’Brien made it a double success for Ireland when Order of Australia led home a 1-2-3 in the Breeders Cup mile.

1,601

Closer to home in racing Kevin Manning, at the age of 53, rode his 1,600th winner and then his 1,601st as the curtain came down on the Irish flat racing season at Naas on Saturday.

2

The number of centimetres that separated Sam Bennett from stage winner Pascal Ackermann in the final stage of the Vuelta cycling Classic in Madrid on Sunday. It was at the end of a stage that lasted 139.6 kilometres or 13,960,000 centimetres. Fine margins.

3

The number of penalties in regular time that Carlos Soler of Real Sociedad scored in a 4-1 win over reigning champions Real Madrid on Sunday. This is only the third time in the history of the Spanish La Liga that three penalties have been scored by the same player.

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