Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...
competed at the
2018 Commonwealth Games
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that was held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...
in the
Gold Coast,
Australia
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from April 4 to April 15, 2018. On January 3, 2017 Northern Ireland announced its decision to send a squad of 88 athletes to the games.
A final team of 90 competed.
Netball athlete
Caroline O’Hanlon
Caroline O'Hanlon is a Northern Ireland national netball team, Northern Ireland netball international and an Armagh GAA, Armagh ladies' Gaelic footballer. She has also represented Ireland women's international rules football team, Ireland at in ...
was the country's flag bearer during the
opening ceremony
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Medalists
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
Athletics
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 13 athletes (8 men, 5 women) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
[
;Men
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Women
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Combined events – ]Heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...
Badminton
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 3 athletes (1 man, 2 women) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
]
Boxing
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 12 athletes (8 men, 4 women) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
;Men
;Women
]
Cycling
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 8 athletes (5 men, 3 women) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
]
Road
;Men
;Women
Track
;Sprint
;Keirin
;Time trial
;Pursuit
;Points race
;Scratch race
Mountain bike
Gymnastics
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 2 athletes (2 men) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
]
Artistic
;Men
;Individual Qualification
;Individual Finals
Lawn bowls
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 10 athletes (5 men, 5 women) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
;Men
;Women
]
Netball
The Northern Ireland national netball team
The Northern Ireland national netball team represent Northern Ireland in international netball tournaments such as the INF Netball World Cup, Netball World Cup, the Netball at the Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Games, the European Netball Cha ...
qualified for the Netball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Netball was one of the ten core sports at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which was held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast in Australia. This was the sixth staging of netball at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 1998, and the ...
due to being ranked in the top 11 of the INF World Rankings
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on July 1, 2017.[ 2018 saw Northern Ireland make their second appearance at the ]Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...
.Caroline O'Hanlon
Caroline O'Hanlon is a Northern Ireland netball international and an Armagh ladies' Gaelic footballer. She has also represented Ireland at international rules. She was a member of the Northern Ireland teams at the 2003, 2011 and 2019 Netball ...
, carried the flag of Northern Ireland
The only official flag for Northern Ireland is the Union Flag, the flag of the United Kingdom; there is no official local flag that represents only Northern Ireland. The flying of various flags in Northern Ireland is a significant sectarian is ...
during the 2018 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.Malawi
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by 60–52 in a classification match.
Shooting
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 8 athletes (6 men, 2 women) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
;Men
;Women
;Open
]
Swimming
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 9 athletes (8 men, 1 woman) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
;Men
* Participated in heats only.
;Women
]
Table tennis
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 4 athletes (4 men) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
;Singles
;Doubles
;Team
]
Triathlon
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 3 athletes (3 men) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
;Individual
;Paratriathlon
]
Weightlifting
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 5 athletes (3 men, 2 women) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
]
Wrestling
Northern Ireland competed with a team of 1 athlete (1 woman) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[
]
References
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Nations at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
2018 in Northern Ireland sport