Maria McCambridge
Maria McCambridge of DSD made a winning return to the roads when she finished first woman at this morning’s SSE Airtricity Dublin Half Marathon held in Donabate.
McCambridge’s time of 82 mins 26 secs was not fast, but will be a considerable confidence booster before next month’s Dublin Marathon. Second was Raheny’s Tara Kennedy Monks.
Overall winner of the race was Ethiopian visitor Berekat Gebraslase in a time of 66 mins 54 secs. Gebraslase, on his first visit outside Ethiopia, moved to the front after a slow start over the first two miles when he got caught behind the “masses”. He went through 10km on the hilly course in 31 mins 44 secs and hopes to return to Dublin for next month’s marathon. Behind him came Valdas Dopolskas of Balbriggan and District in 67 mins 11 secs, while finishing third in only his second run over the distance was John Coghlan of MSB who finished third in in 68 mins 56 secs.
As suspected, other big names aiming for the Dublin Marathon did not show, most of them having already run half marathons in the past few weeks and others targeting next weekend’s Cardiff Half Marathon.
MICK CLOHISEY and Fionnuala McCormack were the winners at the Stephen Carroll/Capt Mark Duffy Memorial 4-Mile held in Blackrock Village, Co Louth. McCormack’s time of 21 mins 10 secs was a new course record. Emma Mitchell of QUB was second and Catherina McKiernan third.
SSE Airtricity Dublin Half Marathon (6,569 finishers)
1 Berekat Gebraslase 66.54, 2 Valdas Dopolskas (Balbriggan and Dist) 67.11, 3 John Coghlan (MSB) 68.56, 4 Bernard Kenealy (Fingal Co Co) 79.12, 5 Eoin Callaghan (Star of the Sea) 71.03, 6 Robert Murphy (Rathfarnham WSAF, M35) 72.32, 7 David Glynn 72.41, 8 Barry Shiel (M35) 74.20. M35: 3 Wesley O’Brien (Raheny Shamrock) 76.03. M40: 1 Stephen Kelly 74.31, 2 Seamus Somers (Sligo AC) 75.32, 3 Jeremy Curran 75.55. M45: 1 Gary Crossan (DSD) 79.34, 2 Ray Coogan (NER) 79.52, 3 Sean MacSeoin (MSB) 80.05. M50: 1 Aidan Brennan 80.56, 2 Padraig Moriarty (St Malachy’s) 81.28, 3 Francisco Novais (Viroria SC) 82.44. M55: 1 Chris Keeling (Balbriggan and Dist) 85.37, 2 Peter Donohoe (Celbridge AC) 87.49, 3 Mick Morrissey (Slaney Olympic) 91.33. M60: 1 James Cottle (Crusaders) 88.57, 2 Eugene Doherty (SBR) 90.47, 3 Jack Tyrrell (Tallaght) 95.57. M65: 1 Anthony Martin 1:53.08, 2 Murray Bryce 1:53.25, 3 Simoa Pereira (Vitoria SC) 2:00.45. M70: 1 Jean Andrieux 2:14.32, 2 Gerry Carroll (Drogheda and Dist) 2:14.56, 3 Tom Kavanagh (SBR) 2:21.53. M80: Brian Otridge 2:22.11.
Women: 1 Maria McCambridge (DSD, W40) 82.26, 2 Tara Kennedy Monks (Raheny Shamrock, W40) 84.25, 3 Denise Logue (W35) 84.51, 4 Adrienne Jordan (Crusaders AC, W40) 85.47, 5 Emilia Dan (Dunboyne AC, W45) 86.30, 6 Karen Crossan (Raheny Shamrock) 87.29, 7 Louise Long (Le Cheile) 88.34, 8 Louise O’Connell 89.17, 9 Grace Kennedy (Donore Hrs) 89.25, 10 Jolyn Swager 89.43. W35: 2 Tara Whyte (GCH) 90.05, 3 Deirdre Keena (Moate Athlone Runners) 90.59. W45: 2 Siobhan McCarthy (Mullingar Hrs) 1:40.53, 3 Sarah White 1:42.44. W50: 1 Brona Snow (Fingallians) 99.18, 2 Caroline Kelly (Team Fingal) 1:44.19, 3 Lorrainne O’Droiscoll (DSD) 1:46.51. W55: 1 Carmel Brannigan (GCH) 97.13, 2 Anna King (Tallaght) 1:43.47, 3 Dolores Kelly (Balbriggan and Dist) 1:45.28. W60: 1 Mary Jennings (Waterford AC) 1:47.51, 2 Ruth McGann 1:53.05, 3 Maree Bowling 1:59.46. W65: 1 Mary Lynch (Raheny Shamrock) 1:44.42, 2 Eileen O’Brien (Lucan Hrs) 1:51.55, 3 Carol Lynch 2:01.42. W70: 1 Catherine Donoghue 2:40.27, 2 Terry Blake 2:54.023, 3 Elizabeth Gartland 3:53.01.
Stephen Carroll/Capt Mark Duffy Memorial 4-Mile, Blackrock Village, Co Louth (362 finishers; www.chipit.com)
1 Mick Clohisey (Raheny Shamrock) 19.08, 2 Gary Campbell (Dunleer AC) 19.33, 3 Eric Keogh (Donore Hrs) 19.46, 4 Patrick Hamilton 19.50, 5 Daragh Greene 20.11, 6 Mark Kenneally (Clonliffe, M35) 20.16.
Women: 1 Fionnuala McCormack (Kilcoole) 21.10 (rec); 2 Emma Mitchell (QUB) 21.16, 3 Catherine McKiernan (W45) 22.23, 4 Sinead Sweeney (QUB) 22.45, 5 Niamh Devlin (DSD) 23.25, 6 Shauna Cahill 23.30.
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