The Irish Special Olympics team will arrive home to a heroes welcome on Tuesday morning. After claiming 16 more medals on the final day of competition, our representatives in LA will return with 86 in total on Tuesday morning.
The Irish ladies basketball team delivered gold by beating Mexico by 19 points to 17 points.
There was a silver on the track thanks to the relay team while the badminton contingent claimed a gold thanks to Amy Quinn and Brian Hooper in the mixed doubles.
At the Drake Stadium in UCLA Team Ireland’s 11-a-side footballers beat Iceland 5-4 on penalties to earn a bronze medal.
37 medals were won by Ireland’s athletes on the penultimate day of the games across a wide range of events, including kayaking, golf, bowling, equestrian, athletics, aquatics and gymnastics.
Yesterday, Irish athletes won six gold, five silver and five bronze medals. This leaves the team with a final medal tally of 26 gold, 29 silver, 31 bronze, 31 personal bests and 43 placement ribbons.
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