Winner of the junior 1500m steeplechase at the South Munster Schools Track and Field Championships at Cork IT in his first-ever steeplechase was Frank O’Brien of Midleton CBS. Father Liam made it to the semi-finals of the steeplechase at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and won eleven Irish titles between 1978 and 1994. […]
Rio Olympian Kerry O’Flaherty leads the entry for the opening British Milers Club Grand Prix meeting in Solihull tomorrow. O’Flaherty goes in the 5000m along with QUB’s Emma Mitchell. Mitchell is chasing the World Student Games standard of 16 mins 15 secs for the distance, while both have their eyes on the Commonwealth Games qualifying […]
Annadale’s Paul Pollock and Mark Christie of Mullingar Harriers lead the Irish entry for the annual Highgate Harriers Night of 10,000m PBs at the Parliament Hill track in London on Saturday May 20. Other Irish entered include Tullamore’s Liam Brady, Kevin Dooney of Raheny Shamrock, Derry’s Declan Reed, DSD pair John Eves and Killian Mooney, […]
A star cast of international and home-grown athletes is expected for the fifth Letterkenny International Track and Field Meet on Friday July 7 (7.0). Feature event on the programme is the Letterkenny AC Sub 4 Minute Mile Challenge event. Last year’s mile saw England’s Lee Emanuel running 3:59.66 in an exciting finish. The 2014 race […]
Sergiu Ciobanu of Clonliffe was in a class of his own at the Annerville 10km, despite still having a recent marathon in his legs. Ciobanu’s winning time of 30 mins 27 secs put him a massive minute and a half ahead of Philip Harty, now running with Ferrybank. First woman in 38:56 was Carmel Fitzgibbon […]
Buy 20 tickets but pay for only ten – that’s the special offer to clubs from the organisers of the Morton Games taking place in Santry on Wednesday July 12. All clubs have to do is sent €100 to the Morton Games Ticket Office at Clonliffe Harriers, Morton Stadium, Santry, Dublin 9 and they will […]
Cillian O’Leary and Laura Shaughnessy were the winners of the 40th anniversary RTE 5-Mile held in bitterly cold conditions around the roads of Donnybrook. First held in 1977, when the race started on Beaver Row and took in a loop of Clonskeagh and Goatstown before returning to Donnybrook, the route has changed many times, due […]
Kate O’Connor of St Gerard’s in Dundalk won the senior girls heptathlon at the annual Somerset Schools AA/County AA and Open Combined Events Championships hosted by Millfield School in Street, England last weekend. Competing in her first seven-event competition, O’Connor aged 16, picked up 802 points for her time of 15.30 secs in the 100m […]
Ultra runner Eoin Keith has completed his run from Mizen Head in Kerry to Malin Head in Donegal in a time of 75 hours 47 minutes – or 3 days 3 hours 47 minutes. That knocks an incredible 11 hours 49 minutes off the time of 3 days 15 hours 36 minutes set by English […]
Irish national marathon champion Laura Graham of Mourne Runners has won the Belfast Marathon – a home victory for the first time in 19 years. Graham, supported enthusiastically all around the course, also repeated her feat of last year by running the London and then Belfast Marathons with only seven days rest in between. The […]
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