Name: Liam Jegou
Event: Canoe slalom (C1)
Age: 28
Liam Jegou will compete in his second Olympic Games. In Tokyo Jegou finished 15th place overall in the semi-finals after incurring 100 seconds of penalties. He was named the flagbearer for the 2023 European Games where he finished 24th. This year he was a semi-finalist at the World Cup in Prague, but has largely focused on preparing for the Games this year.
Jegou won bronze at the Under-23 World Championships in 2019, in 2023 he competed in the World Championships and European Games.
Jegou's family was much travelled in his youth. Born in Brittany, Jegou's family moved to Switzerland and then on to Ballyvaughan in North Clare, where his father owned a kayaking business in the early 2000s.
