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Rhys McClenaghan
Last month
April 2023
# Golden Boy
Rhys McClenaghan wins gold at European Gymnastic Championships
The Irish Olympian is now the reigning World and European champion in pommel horse.
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Apr 15th 2023, 2:15 PM
# Golden Boy
Rhys McClenaghan wins gold at European Gymnastic Championships
The Irish Olympian is now the reigning World and European champion in pommel horse.
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Apr 15th 2023, 1:09 PM
# Flying the flag
Rhys McClenaghan qualifies for European Championships final in first place
Irish Olympian advances in Antalya.
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Apr 11th 2023, 9:26 PM
Last year
2022
# identity
'Researching Good Friday Agreement' in fight to compete and 2022 world title win
Rhys McClenaghan
reflects on a positive end to 2022 and the challenges he faced throughout the year.
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Dec 28th 2022, 8:00 AM
# Legend
Tears of joy for McClenaghan as he becomes first Irish gymnastics world champ
The 23-year-old put to bed a difficult 15 months and made more history for Irish gymnastics in Liverpool.
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Nov 5th 2022, 4:53 PM
# Golden Boy
Rhys McClenaghan crowned world champion with pommel horse gold
McClenaghan’s score of 15.300 gave him a wide winning margin over the rest of the field.
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Nov 5th 2022, 4:00 PM
# Onwards
McClenaghan reaches pommel horse final at World Championships in first position
McClenaghan previously secured a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships.
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Nov 1st 2022, 8:07 AM
# narrow miss
Shock as Rhys McClenaghan misses out on European final
McClenaghan missed out on the final by a single place.
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Aug 18th 2022, 9:14 PM
# Commonwealth Games
Rhys McClenaghan sets the score to beat in pommel horse qualifying
Tokyo Olympian’s score of 14.350 was comfortably the best with two of the three qualification subdivisions completed.
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Jul 29th 2022, 5:29 PM
# Overturned
McClenaghan wins fight to compete at Commonwealth Games
Rhys McClenaghan
and two fellow Northern Ireland gymnasts have been cleared to compete at this summer’s Games.
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Jun 27th 2022, 6:24 PM
# Update
Northern Ireland gymnasts told to change Irish registration for Commonwealth Games
Rhys McClenaghan
and two other gymnasts have been told they are ineligible to compete in the event this summer.
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May 27th 2022, 10:54 PM
# Justice
'Allow us to compete' - McClenaghan launches appeal after Commonwealth Games ban
The 22-year-old and two Northern Ireland team-mates have been told they are ineligible to compete in the event.
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May 26th 2022, 8:19 PM
All time
# gymnastics
McClenaghan fumes over 'slippery' pommel horse after missing out on world championship final
The 22-year-old had to compete after an unscheduled 90-minute break, during which workers disinfected the apparatus.
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Oct 20th 2021, 3:06 PM
# Class
'The world will see him crowned, just not today' - McClenaghan's time will come after Olympic heartbreak
‘It feels like the beginning of something very special,’ says the 22-year-old, with his ‘head held higher than ever’.
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Aug 1st 2021, 5:25 PM
# Heartbreak
'I'll come back a better gymnast and a better man' - Devastation for Rhys McClenaghan in pommel horse final
The Irishman fell during his routine, finishing seventh and missing out on a medal.
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Aug 1st 2021, 11:32 AM
# team ireland
‘We want that top spot’: The Co Down gymnast whose Olympic journey started in his back garden
Rhys McClenaghan
, 22, will be unleashing his talent at the Tokyo Olympics. He’s the second focus in our new series with Indeed.
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Jul 23rd 2021, 8:00 AM
# clarification
Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan weighs in amid claims of 'anti-sex' Olympic beds
Organisers are expected to hand out 160,000 condoms.
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Jul 19th 2021, 3:00 PM
# Interview
A European Champs injury scare, the 'bigger picture' of Olympics and vlogging life as an elite athlete
Rhys McClenaghan
had a wrist injury heading into the recent European Gymnastics Championships.
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Apr 28th 2021, 7:30 AM
# not his day
'Disappointed. I'm so much more than I demonstrated' - McClenaghan’s European medal bid falls short
One of Ireland’s biggest medal hopes for the Olympics, the 21-year-old finished fifth in Basel after a late fall.
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Apr 24th 2021, 3:05 PM
# Going Well
McClenaghan qualifies in first place for European final as Irish hopefuls impress on Road to Tokyo
Meanwhile, there were PBs and national records aplenty at the Irish national swimmimg team trials.
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Apr 22nd 2021, 8:11 PM
# Euro Vision
Galway's Emma Slevin makes history by qualifying for European Gymnastics final
Irish duo produce ‘a superb day for women’s gymnastics in Ireland’.
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Apr 22nd 2021, 9:16 AM
# 100 spins to tokyo
McClenaghan calling himself 'The Champ' and contemplating the vast expanses of the universe
Not even the sky is the limit for the soon-to-be Olympic gymnast, who faces a test of his credentials next week.
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Apr 14th 2021, 7:00 AM
# My Lovely Horse
'I want to be undeniably the best in the world at the Olympics'
Gymnast
Rhys McClenaghan
is one of Ireland’s brightest Olympic hopes and in this amazing video you can see why.
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Feb 25th 2020, 6:10 PM
# Flying High
'I’m going to leave Tokyo with Olympic gold'
Pressure, pride, adrenaline, despair, peaks, troughs, heartache – Garry Doyle speaks to four Irish athletes heading to Tokyo to find out what it’s really like to qualify for the Olympics.
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Feb 15th 2020, 8:00 AM
# 2020 vision
8 to watch in 2020: the stars we are tipping to make headlines next year
Here are some names that may be dominating conversation next year.
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Dec 31st 2019, 5:00 PM
# Dedication
'Anything that's strange, people are going to poke at it. I wouldn't play football too often, I had to turn parties down'
Gymnastics star
Rhys McClenaghan
has risen to become one of Ireland’s most exciting Olympic prospects.
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Oct 20th 2019, 11:39 AM
# Dream Come True
'I cried like a baby, if I'm honest. I was 8 years old telling my mum I wanted to go to the Olympics'
Rhys McClenaghan
won Ireland’s first-ever World Gymnastics medal in Stuttgart on Saturday.
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Oct 15th 2019, 4:58 PM
# gymnastics
Rhys McClenaghan wins bronze with incredible performance in World Championship final
Newtownards youngster adds historic world medal to his CV in Stuttgart.
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Oct 12th 2019, 4:59 PM
# prince of the pommel
McClenaghan celebrates as he secures Olympic berth and place in World final
The 20-year-old becomes the first Irish gymnast to make a World Championship final.
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Oct 7th 2019, 10:06 PM
# Return
Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan secures World Cup silver medal 6 months on from shoulder surgery
It was the 19-year-old European Pommel Horse Champion’s first competitive outing since the injury.
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May 20th 2019, 7:51 PM
'I want a poster outside one of my gyms and have it full of people wanting to aspire to what I’ve achieved'
Irish gymnast
Rhys McClenaghan
talks injury, turmoil, and Conor McGregor.
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Feb 9th 2019, 7:00 AM
# Award Season
RTÉ confirm nominees for 2018 Team of the Year and Young Sportsperson of the Year
The winners will be unveiled on Saturday night in Dublin.
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Dec 11th 2018, 9:47 PM
# down and out
Fall sees Rhys McClenaghan crash out of World Championships
There were high hopes for the reigning European and Commonwealth champion heading into today’s qualification.
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Oct 26th 2018, 11:00 AM
# Rhys McClenaghan
'I'm not one to just go and compete': Ireland's first-ever gymnastics gold medallist has big plans
Teenage gymnast
Rhys McClenaghan
reflects on his incredible achievement at the European Championships.
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Aug 23rd 2018, 8:00 PM
# it's gold baby
'There is so much more to come, I can promise you that. My eyes are set on the world title'
The world is at the feet of 19-year-old gymnast
Rhys McClenaghan
.
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Aug 12th 2018, 6:09 PM
# Gold Rush
Teenager Rhys McClenaghan wins gymnastics gold for Ireland at European Championships
The 19-year-old has won Ireland’s first gymnastics medal at the European Championships.
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Aug 12th 2018, 3:40 PM
# gymnastics
Irish teen gymnast Rhys McClenaghan qualifies in first place for European final
McClenaghan, 19, will have a chance to add another pommel horse medal to his growing collection.
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Aug 9th 2018, 9:29 PM
# your flexible friend
'I don’t want to go and just take part in the competitions'
Co. Down native
Rhys McClenaghan
is gunning for medals in Australia this weekend.
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Apr 7th 2018, 12:10 AM
# Take a Bow
Irish gymnast secures fourth-place finish at World Cup in Qatar
It was a day to remember for
Rhys McClenaghan
in Doha.
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Mar 23rd 2018, 5:00 PM
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