West Waterford’s David McCarthy made a welcome return to racing when he won the Galway Bay 10km in a time of 31 mins 15 secs. Raheny’s Conor Dooney was a close second, with Siobhan O’Doherty of Borrisokane first women in 35 mins 10 secs. The half marathon was won by 34-year-old Moldovan Prodius Roman in […]
A record 15,016 have entered this year’s SSE Airtricity 36th Dublin Marathon taking place on Monday October 26. Numbers have been increasing steadily for the past five years and hit 14,600 in 2014. When the race was launched in 1980, 1,420 finished, with Dick Hooper of Raheny Shamrock leading them home in 2 hrs 26 […]
A grand total of five Irish athletes ran inside the Rio ’16 qualifying standards at the Berlin Marathon. Leading them home was Kevin Seaward of St Malachy’s in Belfast in a superb new personal best of 2 hrs 14 mins 54 secs. Seaward had trailed the other Irish at 10km, but speeded up in the […]
Neil Fleming of Celbridge Paddlers and Robin Koenders of Denmark won the men’s K2 class at the 56th Liffey Descent canoe marathon today in 1 hour 48 minutes 32 seconds. Salmon Leap pair Gary Mawer and Barry Watkins, who were last year’s K2 winners, were over two minutes behind for second place in 1:51.00. Jenny […]
Ismail Ssenyange and Maria McCambridge came out on top at the Charleville International Half Marathon in Co Cork. For Ssenyange, who is Ugandan and a member of the Dubai Creek Striders, it was third time lucky – he finished second in both 2013 and last year. McCambridge, who is aiming to make the Rio ’16 […]
Ireland’s Sarah McCormack finished a fighting ninth in the women’s race at the World Mountain Running Championships in Betws-y-Coed, Wales. Uganda’s Sally Chesang, the women’s junior winner from last year when the race was uphill only, underlined her huge potential when she won the race from the British trio of Emily Collinge, Emma Clayton and […]
Eoin Callaghan of Star of the Sea and Karen Alexander of Acorns AC were the winners of the SSE Airtricity Half Marathon in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Callaghan’s time of 68 mins 21 secs saw him finish over a minute ahead of Clonliffe’s David Mansfield. The women’s race was closer with Alexander just fourteen seconds clear […]
Martin McDonald of Ballyroan Abbeyleix and District proved the star of the Irish team when he finished second over 55 at the World Masters Mountain Running Championships in Betws-y-Coed, Wales. McDonald just held off fellow Irish athlete Ger Maloney of St Paul’s in Wexford for the silver medal. With Ger Griffin sixth the Irish also […]
Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu, who runs the Berlin Marathon at the end of the month, set a new course record of 66 mins 17 secs on his way to victory at the Flatline Athlone Half Marathon. Jane Anne Healy of Athenry was first woman. Mark English won the 500m in 59.58 secs at the Great North […]
Thomas Barr finished his season with a fifth place in the 400m hurdles at the Brussels Diamond League tonight. Barr’s time was 49.80scs. Winner of the race was Jeffery Gibson in 48.72. Kerry O’Flaherty made the pace in the women’s steeplechase. Winner was Habiba Ghribi of Tunisia in 9:05.36.
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