Ciarán Ward

Ciarán Ward (born 17 January 1972) is a judoka who represented Ireland at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics and Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games.

Biography At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Ward competed at the 65kg half-lightweight division and four years later at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta he once again participated in the half-lightweight category.

Ward was selected for the 1990 Northern Irish team at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand, where he competed in half-lightweight category,being eliminated by England's Mark Adshead.

In 1989 he was based in Wolverhampton and his younger sister Cora also represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at international level.