How the Irish team fared over the weekend

Athletics: 400 metres

Joanne Cuddihy missed out on an unlikely place in the 400m final despite a vast improvement on her performance in the heats, running 51.88.

Athletics: Pole vault

Not the happiest Olympic debut from Tori Pena in the pole vault. The California-born Irish athlete failed to record a height and crashed out of the competition in disappointing fashion.

Athletics: 3,000m Steeplechase

Stephanie Reilly came ninth in heat two in a race won by Ethiopia’s Sofia Assefa and missed out on a place in the final over 3,000m. Reilly clocked 9:44.77, a time that left the Laois athlete 27th in the overall standings and well outside the top 16 needed to qualify for today’s decider.

Rowing: Women’s single sculls

Sanita Puspure finished out her Olympic Games programme with a convincing win in the C Final, placing her 13th overall in the field of 28 at the regatta. Her winning time of seven minutes 59.77 seconds was almost eight seconds ahead of second-placed Micheen Thornycroft of Zimbabwe.

Equestrian: showjumping

Cian O’Connor has qualified for today’s third round of the showjumping competition at Greenwich Park with the 12-year-old gelding Blue Loyd which he bought last year with the Olympics very much in mind.

Tackling Bob Ellis’s challenging track in one of the rainstorms that hit the Olympic equestrian venue throughout the session, Meath-based O’Connor lowered two fences but, having completed Saturday’s opening round without fault, qualified as one of 16 combinations on eight faults.

There are a dozen riders on a zero score, including Switzerland’s Paul Estermann and the USA’s Rich Fellers who ride the Irish Sport Horses Castlefield Eclipse (a mare by Obos Quality 004) and Flexible (a Cruising stallion) respectively.

Corks Billy Twomey, who was fourth to jump yesterday, also picked up eight faults on Tinka’s Serenade, but carrying four faults from Saturdays first qualifier, he failed to make the cut for today. He is, however, on the 10-strong reserve list, should any of the 46 qualified combinations drop out.

In the team competition, the leaders at the halfway stage are Egypt on a score of 1, followed by Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland on four, Canada on six and Brazil and the US on eight. With just these top eight teams progressing, the usually strong German, French and Belgium squads will be represented in the individual competition only.

Shooting: Men’s trap

Lying in 25th place Derek Burnett goes on the second day of qualifying for the men’s trap with some work to do. The Irishman totalled 70 points in three rounds yesterday, thanks to a scoring average of 0.933, but the standard was high at the Royal Artillery Barracks. Burnett only missed the target five times in three rounds but cannot afford similar form today if he is to squeeze into the top six for the final.

Cycling: Track omnium

Martyn Irvine finished 13th in the men’s omnium, after a huge effort in the 1km time-trial.

The Irishman was 11th in the final event at the Velodrome but could not improve on his overall standing with a points total of 64.

Irvine’s best result was sixth in Saturday’s 30km points race.

Britain’s Edward Clancy was quickest by some distance in the final event but it was only good enough for a bronze medal, behind gold medallist Denmark’s Lasse Norman Hansen and France’s Bryan Coquard.