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Paris 2024: Meet Ireland's 35-member Paralympic squad

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The Paralympic Games get underway next week, Wednesday 28 August, and Ireland will have a squad of 35 representing the country in Paris.Here are the Team Ireland members set to compete in the French capital. Kerrie Leonard Competing at her second Paralympic Games this summer, Kerrie first represented Ireland in 2012, before taking a break and returning to the sport in 2014.

Leonard finished ninth at the 2015 World Championships and took silver a year later at the Europeans. She finished ninth overall at the Tokyo Games. Orla Comerford Just 18 when she made her Paralympics debut in Rio, Comerford finished eighth in her T13 100m final.

In 2017 she was sixth in the final of the World Championships in London and a year later, won two bronze medals (100/200m) at the European Championships in Berlin.The Raheny Shamrock athlete qualified an automatic slot for Paris 2024 with a fourth-place finish at the 2023 Para Athletics World Championships, just 0.06 of a second away from the podium.

In June she ran her first legal sub 12 second race, a PB of 11.90 in the 100m final at the national senior track and field championships in Morton Stadium. Greta Streimikyte Having moved to Ireland from Lithuania when she was 15, Streimikyte made her international debut for the Irish Para-Athletics team at the 2016 European Para Athletics Championships where she took home a bronze medal.

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