Len Gaynor
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| Personal information | |||
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| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Left wing-back | ||
| Born | 1944 (age 72–73) Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, Ireland |
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| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Kilruane MacDonagh's | |||
| Club titles | |||
| Tipperary titles | 3 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1964–1974 | Tipperary | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 4 | ||
| All-Irelands | 3 | ||
| NHL | 2 | ||
| All Stars | 0 | ||
| Inter-county management | |||||
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Len Gaynor (born 1944) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a left wing-back for the Tipperary senior hurling team.
Gaynor joined the team during the 1964 championship and became a regular member of the starting fifteen over the next decade. During that time he won three All-Ireland medals, five Munster medals and two National Hurling League medals. He ended up as an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions.
At club level Gaynor is a three-time county club championship medallist with Kilruane MacDonagh's.
In retirement from playing Gaynor became involved in team management and coaching. At inter-county level has served as manager of the Clare and Tipperary senior hurling teams. He has also had a wide-ranging coaching career with numerous club teams in Tipperary.
Gaynor played his club hurling with his local Kilruane MacDonagh's club. He enjoyed some success at underage levels before later winning three consecutive senior county championship titles in 1977, 1978 and 1979.
By the early 1960s Gaynor had made an impact as a member of the Tipperary minor hurling team. He tasted his first success in 1962 when he won a Munster minor medal. He later joined the Tipp under-21 panel with whom he won both Munster and All-Ireland medals in 1964 in the inaugural year of the competition. Gaynor won a second Munster under-21 medal in 1965.
Gaynor's skill at underage levels brought him to the attention of the senior selectors who elevated him onto the senior county team in 1964. He went on to win his first National Hurling League medal at the start of 1965, before Tipp demolished all opposition in the provincial championship giving him his first Munster title. Wexford were Tipp's opponents in the All-Ireland final, however, the game failed to live up to the two classic games between the two sides in 1960 and 1962. Victory went to Tipp on that occasion with Gaynor collecting his first All-Ireland medal.
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