Other than football what other sports have you won a medal/trophy.
I've got Clay Pigeon shooting and Darts.
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Other than football what other sports have you won a medal/trophy.
I've got Clay Pigeon shooting and Darts.
Irish Championships Runner-up in chess (Novice section)
The guy who won is an International Master now.
Have won money at a few tournaments as well. Also have an international cap for First Aid. :)
I captained UCD second place last weekend in the ultra competitive world of intervarsities orienteering.
How many teams were in the race?Quote:
Originally Posted by Student Mullet
Amateur Boxing.
And I seem to remember as a child, winning a competition for driving a nail into a block of wood. Not sure if I got a medal though.
Tennis.
Butlins Best Baby
Won a few mini world cups, including one year when I scored the only two goals of the final and got man of the match.:cool:
Chess (I've won a bunch of stuff, including the Leinster U19 individual title, and an All-Ireland Schools U16s team title) and swimming (a bunch of minor medals from my youth). I've a couple of trivial GAA medals somewhere too, but I think they're probably all internal stuff. I gave up a lot of it as a kid, the swimming on medical advice.
I've won a few pool trophies at various amateur levels. I also represented Wales at under-age level.
Bronze in 4X100m Relay & Silver in Individual 100m in some Meath Schools Competition.
Got a couple of medals from athletics when i was a teenager, the most interesting of which is probably a bronze in the Ulster Schools' U-15 pole-vault! :D
san francisco county football title in gaa,couple of rugby cups with richmond rfc in limerick
Dublin minor hurling championship and a bucketload of other titles in hurling and gaelic football.
Superleague Division 2 champions in UCD Football Superleague, also won the end of year blitz in 6th year in school (a coveted title for bragging rights :D )
A load of titles in summer camps when I was a teenager in sports such as basketball, unihoc and volleyball.
And I'm currently on the national panel for American Football.
Lots of county youth club games medals mainly for Darts, volleyball Table quizz.
National Youth club games silver medal in table quiz.
Soccer
U.14 Wexford League Division 2 winners
U. 18 Wexford League Division 1 winners
Hurling Wexford Minor Roinn 2 winners
Football Junior A County champions
and a few runners up medals too.
Looking back I've won more medals than I thought. :)
If you only knew how to tip a hat you'd be the ultimate gaelic athlete.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aberdonian Stu
- North Leinster Schools Gaelic Football runners-up medal
- Minor and Junior Hurling Championship winners medals.
- I won a silver medal in a national school swimming gala.
Shallow end category, using a float. :p
- Not sporting but I have a few community games medals for Art.
Is that a reference to Christy Ring?Quote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student
Nope, I'm referring to the quintessential Irish tradition of playing tip-in-the-hat as cited by Archbishop Croke.
won juvenile Gealic football and hurling titles, won a couple of local chess tournaments, a clay pigeon shooting competition and 3 all-ireland schools olymipic handball championships.