Aoife Hoey

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Aoife Hoey is an Irish bobsleigh competitor from Portarlington, County Laois, Republic of Ireland.

Failed narrowly with her older sister Siobhán Hoey to qualify for the Two-Woman event at the 2006 Winter Olympics, held in Turin, Italy.

The ladies competed impressively in recent years and narrowly missed out on this month’s Winter Olympics by just one position, having finished in 16th place in European qualifying, just one position outside the automatic qualifying positions.

Aoife is also a former All-Ireland Triple Jump Champion.