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Sam Barnes
@SportsfileSam
Award winning sports photographer for @sportsfile, based in Dublin.
Dublin, Ireland
sportsfile.com
Joined August 2011
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Apr 29, 2024
    It’s a truly sad state of affairs that comments have to be turned off on on a post about one of the most exiting talents in Irish athletics because of racism!
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    Athletics Ireland
    @irishathletics
    Apr 27, 2024
    10:84 (+3.5 wind) for Rhasidat Adeleke over 100m at the Texas Invitational tonight 🤯🔥🔥🔥 Sarah Lavin's National 100m record 11:27🤩 relays.texassports.com/2024-texas-inv… #IrishAthletics
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Jun 16, 2024
    The rise of Irish sprint sensation Rhasidat Adeleke - Through my lens, and the lenses of my talented colleagues at Sportsfile. After all Rome wasn’t built in a day! All photos ©️@sportsfile A 🧵
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Sep 16, 2018
    Brotherly love - Friend and fellow @sportsfile photographer Eóin Noonan consoles his young sister Saoirse after today’s TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Football Championship Final #ProperFan
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Jun 9, 2024
    That was special. Gold for Ireland Ciara Mageean in the women’s 1500m Final! 🥇
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    Sam Barnes
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    Jun 7, 2024
    So that just happened! What a team. What a performance. And a throughly deserved European gold medal gets us up and running in Rome!
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Mar 3, 2024
    We all need a Tara Davis-Woodhall in our corner ! She absolutely roared home her @usatf team mates Nikki Hiltz and Emily Mackay to silver and bronze in the women’s 1500m final at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow! #WorldIndoorChamps
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Jul 28, 2022
    Delighted to hear that I won the gold award in the #Athletics category of the World Sports Photography Award 2022! As well as being awarded a special merit in the Venues and Views category! #wspa22
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Jan 9, 2023
    Don’t get to show off this sequence very often, and it’s one of my personal favourites from an All-Ireland Final! Enjoy retirement #LeeKeegan! #GAA
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Jul 19, 2021
    Family and friends may not have been able to travel to Tallinn for the European U20 Athletics Championships, but they made sure to welcome home @irishathletics record breaking golden generation! #athletics #welcomehome
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Sep 30, 2023
    Only gone and won the Sports in Action Category of the Siena International Photo Awards! #sienaawards
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Apr 21, 2022
    7yrs ago I landed in Dublin to join @sportsfile! Since then Ive covered National Athletics, All Ireland Finals, The 6 Nations and even the Paralympic Games in Tokyo and everything between! Thanks @Sportsfileray for taking a punt on a young lad from Reading! #dreamjob #timeflies
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Mar 3, 2024
    That moment when you realise you have qualified for a world indoor 4x400m final with a new national record! #WorldIndoorChamps #Athletics
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Dec 12, 2021
    Not a bad days work on home soil for the Irish U20 and U23 Men’s teams at European Cross Country Championships at the Sport Ireland Campus today! Individual Silver for Darragh McElhinney, followed up with U23 Team gold and U20 Team silver! #FingalDublin2021
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    Sam Barnes
    @SportsfileSam
    Nov 21, 2023
    Absolutely thrilled to be announced as a finalist in the @WorldAthletics photograph of the year for the second year in a row! Maybe this will be my year to win the ever elusive 🥇
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