Niamh McCarthy

Niamh McCarthy
Personal information
Nationality Irish
Born (1994-01-04) 4 January 1994
County Cork
Residence County Cork
Sport
Sport Athletics
Disability class F41
Event(s) Discus
Club Eagle Athletic Club
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)

31.76 m[1]

32.67 m (unofficial)[2]
Medal record
Representing  Ireland
Women's Discus
Summer Paralympics
2016 Rio de Janeiro Discus - F41
IPC World Championships
2017 LondonDiscus throw - F41
2015 Doha Discus (F41)
European Championships
2018 Berlin Discus F41
2016 Grosseto Discus (F40/41)

Niamh McCarthy (born 4 January 1994) is an Irish Paralympic discus thrower, competing in the F41 classification, a classification for persons of reduced stature.[2][3] She is the 2018 European champion in the event at her classification and, as of August 2018, the European record holder at 31.76 metres[1].

Career

McCarthy started competing in discus events in 2013, winning world and European medals before taking a silver at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[4][5][6]

McCarthy won the gold medal at the European Para Athletics Championships in Berlin, August 2018, setting a new European record of 31.76 m[1][7]

Personal life

McCarthy has lived in England and France.[8]is a former student of Biological and Chemical Sciences at University College Cork. She also practises sky-diving.[8][9] She has dwarfism and lordosis[8] and competes in F41 classification events,[8] which for women is for those under 140 cm (4 ft 7 in) in height.[10]

After discovering that none of the Irish press or TV channels had sent any journalists to the 2018 Para Athletics World Championships, Niamh decided to cover the Championships herself via her Instagram account: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niamh_McCarthy

References

  1. 1 2 3 Berlin 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships - WOMEN'S DISCUS THROW F41 - FINAL (pdf) (Report). 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships.
  2. 1 2 "Meet Niamh McCarthy, possibly the world's fastest learning discus thrower - SportsJOE.ie".
  3. ↑ "Niamh McCarthy RIO".
  4. ↑ "Niamh McCarthy scoops stunning discus silver".
  5. ↑ ""I got what I came here for" - Niamh McCarthy relishes silver medal victory in Rio".
  6. ↑ Bailey, Ryan. "Niamh McCarthy wins Ireland's second Paralympic medal of the day".
  7. ↑ O'Dea, Arthur James (20 September 2018). "'This Is Elite Level Sport. Being A Paralympic Athlete Isn't Just A Hobby'". Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "MCCARTHY Niamh". paralympic.org.
  9. ↑ "Silver for McCarthy & bronze for Streimikyte rounds off another successful day for Ireland at Europeans".
  10. ↑ email:info@webfactory.ie, Webfactory, url: www.webfactory.ie,. "Page 2 « Niamh McCarthy - Paralympics Ireland".


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