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Irish Olympic round-up: Meadow and Maguire struggle early on and Lynch misses out on medal

The women’s individual stroke play is still in the first round but both Irish golfers lie in 52nd place and Lynch finishes eighth in the men’s dinghy race

Having began the day in tied 19th, Stephanie Meadow slipped back with a round of two over.
Stephanie Meadows sits in 52nd place in the women's individual stroke play after round one at Le Golf National in Paris
By Liam Grimley

Golf

After a disappointing first round, Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow have left themselves with a mountain to climb in the final three rounds of the female individual golf stroke play at Le Golf National in Paris.

After ending on a sweet note yesterday with Kellie Harrington, it was the turn of another two Irish women to keep spirits high, namely Stephanie Meadow from Jordanstown and Leona Maguire from Cavan.

However, Meadow was off to a shaky start, scoring five bogeys on the front nine and finishing with an overall score of six over par to land the Ulster golfer in joint 50th place on 78 strokes.

Maguire will be eager to forget her first-round performance, scoring two bogeys, one double bogey and one triple bogey, leaving her with a score on the front nine of 43.

Leona Maguire
Ireland’s Leona Maguire sits level with Meadows going into round two at Le Golf National (Peter Morrison/PA)

The Cavan woman salvaged what she could in the back nine, scoring two birdies and two bogeys to go into the 18th hole just needing to get the hole over and done with.

However, she finished on a birdie to bring her level with her fellow Irishwoman Stephanie Meadow in 50th with a score of 78.

Sailing

Australian-born, Carlow-based Finn Lynch finished eighth in the men’s dinghy medal race after it was postponed yesterday due to low wind speeds.

Lynch finished 41 seconds behind gold medallist Matt Whearn and just over half a minute away from a podium spot, with Pavlos Kontides and Jonathan Vadnai taking silver and bronze respectively.