Ruby Millet of Kilkenny College and Tony O’Connor of Naas CBS won the intermediate titles at the Glo Health Leinster Schools Combined Events Championships in Athlone today. Missing from the girls’ competition was defending Leinster and Irish champion Kate O’Connor of St Vincent’s Dundalk, who arrived at the venue but did not compete after her […]
Fionnuala McCormack of Kilcoole proved that she is still the woman to beat when she won the Autumn Open Cross-Country over the newly-launched National Cross-Country Course at Abbotstown. McCormack proved the class of the field in the women’s 6000m, beating Polish visitor Paulina Kaczynska by over half a minute. Showing a welcome return to form […]
Gary O’Hanlon and Pauline Curley proved the class of the field at the new-look Irish 3/4 Marathon which had moved from its original location near Athlone to a faster, flatter course at Longwood, Co Meath. Clonliffe’s O’Hanlon, back in top form after a period of injury, finished almost 12 minutes clear of the field in […]
At the Meath Schools Cross-County hosted by St Brigid’s in Balllincree, St Pat’s Navan retained the Geraldine Dolan Memorial Cup finishing three points ahead of Loreto Mullingar with St Peter’s Dunboyne third. Following the recent dry spell, the course in Ballinacree was in ideal condition and, with 16 schools from four counties taking part, there […]
A record 2,100 turned out for the Brother Schools Cross-Country in Santry yesterday – that’s up from 1,400 last year and well up on the 700 or so who turned out in the first year of this race. Winners of the senior races were Sean O’Leary of St Aidan’s and Lauren Tinkler of HFCS Rathcoole; […]
Kevin Ankrom, Athletics Ireland’s High Performance Director, has resigned. He will return to his native USA with his young family. Ankrom was appointed to the position of HP director in 2011; his brief was to establish a structure for the organisation of elite athletics in this country – and to win medals for Ireland. He […]
On a glorious autumn afternoon at the Magazine Hill in the Phoenix Park, Clare Sullivan of Rathfarnham WSAF and Clonliffe’s Cathal Doyle were the winners of the Dublin Novice Cross-Country titles. First up was the women’s 4km race, with Sullivan part of a breakaway group that pushed to the front from the opening lap. Leading […]
Ultra runner Eoin Keith of Sportsworld has finished eighth place in the grueling Spartathlon – a 243km run from Athens to Sparta in Greece that includes a 1,200m night-time climb of Mount Parthenio on rough, unmarked paths and extreme variations in temperature from freezing cold to broiling hot. Keith’s time of 26 hours 36 min […]
World masters mountain running champion Ian Conroy of Raheny Shamrock and DSD’s Fiona Clinton were the winners of the annual Simon 5-Mile run held in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Raheny’s Freddy Sittuk won the 10k at the Galway Bay Marathon, Half Marathon and 10km, leading home 1,340 finishers. His time was 31 mins 18 secs; Conor […]
Donore’s Ian O’Leary and Ide Nic Dhomhnaill were first man and woman at the Twilight Challenge 5k,held tonight at Sandyford Busienss Park in Dublin. A total of 72 teams ran. Earlier in the week,Fikru Teshager was the runaway winner of the 5km race at the Dublin Night Run in Parkwest. Thursday September 29 Twilight Challenge […]
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