Tokyo 2020: Team Ireland profiles - Darragh Kenny (Equestrian)

Kenny goes into the Games as Ireland’s highest-ranked jumper

Age: 33

Sport: Show Jumping

Olympic Horse: VDL Cartello

Kenny is currently Ireland's highest-ranked show jumper, at number eight in the world. In 2007, at the age of 19, Kenny was invited to compete at the Dublin Horse Show as one of Ireland's leading young riders where he won a training bursary to work with a top American coach at North Run Stables. He is based between the United States and Europe, and has won two five-star Grands Prix with his top mount, Balou du Reventon.

Ian O'Riordan

Ian O'Riordan

Ian O'Riordan is an Irish Times sports journalist writing on athletics