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Nationality
  
Irish

Disability class
  
F41

Personal best(s)
  
27.05 m

Sport
  
Athletics

Club
  
Eagle Athletic Club

Event
  
Discus throw

Niamh McCarthy Niamh McCarthy RIO Paralympics Ireland

Born
  
4 January 1994 (age 23) (
1994-01-04
)
County Cork

Residence
  
County Cork, Republic of Ireland

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Niamh McCarthy (born 4 January 1994) is an Irish paralympic discus thrower.

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Career

Niamh McCarthy 2016 Irish Paralympic Team revealed at City Hall News Four

McCarthy started competing in discus events in 2013, winning world and European medals before taking a silver at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Personal life

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McCarthy is a former student of Biological and Chemical Sciences at University College Cork. She also practises sky-diving. She has dwarfism and lordosis and competes in F41 classification events, which for women is for those under 140 cm (4 ft 7 in) in height.

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Niamh McCarthy Niamh McCarthy wins Ireland39s second Paralympic medal of the day

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References

Niamh McCarthy Wikipedia
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