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EFI PRESIDENT <PROUD AND DELIGHTED> AT IRISH
SHOW JUMPING GOLD MEDAL
In a statement issued just after Ireland's
historic Gold Medal triumph in the Senior European Show Jumping Championships
at Arnhem, Netherlands, today (Friday June 29) Equestrian Federation of Ireland
President, Ms. Avril Doyle, MEP said:
<< I am delighted at this historic win for our senior show jumpers at the
European Championships. I am also extremely proud that they will bring a Gold
Medal home to Ireland from this most prestigious international event.
<<I would like to extend congratulations on behalf of the EFI to Kevin
Babington, Jessica Kurten, Peter Charles and Dermott Lennon, and indeed to
everyone involved in this tremendous victory, which I think augurs so well for
the future of equestrian sport in this country.
<<With a First Place in the Nations Cup Series last year, and now a Gold
Medal in the European Championships, I think it can safely be said that the
most successful Irish athletes now competing on the world stage are equestrian
athletes, and that Ireland's best chance of a medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics
must lie in the equestrian sport sector.>>
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