Irish in Action - Monday and Tuesday

A busy morning on the track at the Bird's Nest tomorrow sees David Gillick, Paul Hession and Eileen O'Keefe get their first taste…

A busy morning on the track at the Bird's Nest tomorrow sees David Gillick, Paul Hession and Eileen O'Keefe get their first taste of action in Beijing.

Hession and Gillick can be reasonably confident of progressing from their respective heats but O'Keeffe's preparations for the hammer throw have been hampered by a knee injury and making it out of the qualification group will be a tall order.

Light winds last week and high winds over the weekend have caused major headaches for the sailing officials at Quingdao with a number of cancellations and postponements. As it stands, Ciara Peelo is due to wrap up her campaign tomorrow morning and appears out of the running for Tuesday's medal race.

Stephen Milne and Peter O'Leary are scheduled to have their eighth race of the Star campaign on Tuesday but, as ever, this remains subject to change as the organisers chop and change the programme due to the adverse conditions on the Yellow Sea.

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The excitement, meanwhile, continues to build for the first two of three Irish boxers involved in Tuesday's quarter-finals.

Belfast Light Flyweight Paddy Barnes is first up at the Workers' Gymnasium when he faces Poland's Lukasz Maszczyk. And team captain Kenny Egan takes to the ring shortly afterwards with Brazil's Washington Silva standing between him and a place on the podium.

Monday, August 18th(All times Irish)

02.00 - Triathlon
Women's Final, Emma Davies

02.48 - Athletics
400m Heat 7, David Gillick
 
03.50 - Athletics
Hammer Qualification Group B, Eileen O'Keefe

03.40 - Athletics
200m Heat 6, Paul Hession

04.00 - Sailing
Laser Radial race 7, 8, 9 and 10, Ciara Peelo
Star Class race 5, 6 and 7, Stephen Milne & Peter O'Leary

12.15 - Equestrian
Individual Show Jumping 3rd Qualifier, Denis Lynch

13.05 - Athletics
200m quarter-finals, Paul Hession (if he qualifies)

Tuesday, August 19th

06.00
Laser Radial Medal race, Ciara Peelo (if she qualifies)

07.00 - Sailing
Star Class race 8, Stephen Milne & Peter O'Leary

12.00 - Boxing
Light Flyweight quarter-final, Paddy Barnes (Ire) vs Lukasz Maszczyk (Pol)

14.16 - Boxing
Light Heavyweight quarter-final, Kenny Egan (Ire) vs Washington Silva (Bra)

14.25 - Athletics
200m semi-finals, Paul Hession (if he qualifies)

14.45 - Athletics
400m semi-finals, David Gillick (if he qualifies)