Athletes

Sport: Country:

All athletes

0
0
0
Total: 0

Seamus O'CONNOR

Ireland

Gender: Male
Nationality: Ireland

Birthday: 4 October 1997
Age: 16

Height: 1.78 m (5' 10'')
Weight: 71 kg / 157 lbs

Place of Birth: United States, SAN DIEGO
Place of Residence: -

Olympic Scholarship participant

Snowboard

Support athlete:

Athlete competitions and results

6 February, 12:00 Men's Slopestyle Qualification
Seamus O'CONNOR
Score: 40.00
Rank: 13

8 February, 09:30 Men's Slopestyle Semifinals
Seamus O'CONNOR
Score: 70.25
Rank: 9

11 February, 14:00 Men's Halfpipe Qualification
Seamus O'CONNOR
Score: 71.50
Rank: 8

11 February, 19:00 Men's Halfpipe Semifinals
Seamus O'CONNOR
Score: 54.00
Rank: 9

Additional Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
FIS World Championships
19	Halfpipe	2013	Stoneham, QC, CAN
21	Slopestyle	2013	Stoneham, QC, CAN
World Snowboarding Championships
32	Halfpipe	2012	Oslo, NOR
53	Slopestyle	2012	Oslo, NOR

FIS World Cup Rankings overview - displays all rankings from 2010/11, top three for earlier seasons

Season	HP	AFU
2013/2014	66	35
2012/2013	23	29

Best performance per season in FIS World Cup events from 2010/2011

Season	HP	SBS
2013/2014	1 x 31st	1 x 8th
2012/2013	1 x 8th	1 x 11th

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Ten best FIS World Cup performances in current season
8	Slopestyle	2013/2014	Stoneham, QC, CAN
15	Slopestyle	2013/2014	Copper Mountain, CO, USA
31	Halfpipe	2013/2014	Cardrona, NZL
36	Halfpipe	2013/2014	Copper Mountain, CO, USA

Legend
ALL-Overall, PGS-Parallel Giant Slalom, PS-Parallel Slalom, PAR-Parallel Overall, SBX-Snowboard Cross, ASP-Parallel and Snowboard Cross overall ranking, HP-Halfpipe, BA-Big Air, SBS-Slopestyle, AFU-Freestyle overall ranking, BA/SBS-Big Air and Slopestyle overall ranking, DNS-Did not start, DNF-Did not finish, DSQ-Disqualified

Occupation: Athlete
Coach: Sam Wilkinson (snowsports.ie, 11 Jan 2013)
Debut: 2010 for Ireland, FIS Race (Copper Mountain, CO) (fis-ski.com, 14 Dec 2010)

Languages Spoken: English, Russian
Position Style: Regular (worldsnowboardtour.com, 2013)

Additional Information

Start of sporting career
He first tried snowboarding at age four, and began competing at age eight. (irishcentral.com, 08 Dec 2013)

Ambitions
To compete at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. (discoveringireland.com, 09 Dec 2013)

Most memorable sporting achievement
Walking into the opening ceremony of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. (ONS, 08 Feb 2014)

General
NATIONAL FIRST
He became the first Irish halfpipe and slopestyle snowboarder to be selected for an Olympic Winter Games when he was named in the Ireland team for the 2014 Games in Sochi. (bbc.co.uk, 31 Jan 2014)

OPTIONS
Born in the United States, he was also eligible to represent Russia through his mother and Great Britain through his father. He made the decision to compete for Ireland as his grandparents were born there, and he believed he would have a better chance of qualifying for the Olympic Winter Games. (ramonajournal.com, 2011)

Social Media
Hear more from the athlete via their Facebook.