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Tori Peña (Athletics; 2012, 2016)
The Californian-born Peña, whose grandmother Angela Coyle hailed from Derry, joined Finn Valley AC in 2010.
She quickly won the Irish pole vault title and she went on to represent Ireland at two Olympic Games, three World Championships and three European Championships.
At the 2012 Olympics, she failed her three attempts at 4.10 metres, having cleared 4.50m in her native California back in March 2012 to book her place at the Games.
Ireland's first ever Olympic pole vaulter came back and cleared 4.30m in Rio in 2016.
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