Weds Lunch Sport Update

Kildare U16 Ladies Football Leinster A Final vs Meath tonight.

Team Ireland is already celebrating their first medal of the Games.

The women's rowing four of Aifric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh and Emily Hegarty secured bronze this morning.

World champion lightweight men's doubles duo Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy advanced to tomorrow's final by setting a new world's best in winning their semi.

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Mona McSharry has set a new Irish record in the 200-metres breaststroke heats at the Olympics.

The Sligo woman swam 2 minutes-25.0-8-seconds finishing second in her heat.

The top 16 times across the heats will advance.

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Roscommon boxer Aoife O'Rourke has missed out on a place in the quarter-finals to former world middleweight champion Qian Li of China on a unanimous decision in Tokyo.

Earlier, Kurt Walker advanced to the quarter-finals of the men's featherweight.

He shocked Miraz-izbek Mirzak-halilov on a split decision to set up a medal bout on Friday.

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U-S gymnastics have given their full support to the decision made by Simone Biles to withdraw from defending her all-round Olympic title to focus on her mental health.

The four time gold medalist said the sport was no longer "fun" after she withdrew from the team final yesterday after one rotation.

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Joe Canning has announced his retirement from inter-county hurling .

The Galway forward became the top scorer in Championship history in their defeat to Waterford in the qualifiers last weekend.

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It’s a red letter night for Kildare Ladies Football.

The county’s U16’s contest the Leinster A final against Meath in Kinnegad at 7.30pm

Kfm Twitter @kfmsport will stream scores throughout the game.

 Kildare manager Seán Reynolds interview on this morning’s Kildare Today programme (Hour 2) is podcast in the Sport section of Kfmradio.com

Last night’s local GAA Results

2021 Senior Hurling League Division 3

Sarsfields Hurling Club  3-15 V Naas Hurling Club  2-7

2021 Reserve League Div. 4

Allenwood GFC  5-14 V Ellistown  0-11

The Championship Draws for the Senior Hurling & Intermediate Hurling Championships will take place this Friday evening at 6:30pm live on Kfm.

On Saturday, Kfm will have live coverage of the 2020 Senior Hurling Championship hurling final between Naas and Confey.  The game throws-in at 3pm.

On Sunday, Kfm will have full commentary of the Leinster football final: Kildare vs Dublin in association with Hanlon Concrete Robertstown

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Celtic have work to do if they're to progress in Champions League qualifying this evening.

They're level at 1-all with FC Midtjylland going into the second leg of their second round tie in Denmark.

Kick-off is at 6.45pm.

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It's Galway Plate day at the Galway Races.

Samcro heads the weights as he bids for a fourth win over fences.

Paddy Power Plate winner The Shunter is likely to go off as the favourite when the big race goes to post at 6.15pm