UCD’s Ciara Mageean finished second and ran a personal best of 4:06.54 for 1500m at the Rovereto track meet in Italy last night. Mageean’s time was marginally outside the 4:06 time she needs to qualify for Rio ’16. Canada’s Fiona Benson won the race in 4:05.61; another Canadian, Sheila Reid was third in 4:09.75. Laura […]
How great is this? There now are 33 Parkruns in the Republic, with 66,695 registered to run. So which one will have the best tea rooms? New Parkruns coming up: Cork parkrun 26 Sept; Father Collins parkrun 3 Oct; Donabate parkrun 10 Oct; Porterstown parkrun 17 Oct; Navan parkrun 17 Oct; Castletown parkrun Celbridge 24 […]
Mick Clohisey of Raheny – who runs the Berlin Marathon in a few weeks time – was an impressive winner of the Waterside Half Marathon in Derry. His time of 65 mins 8 secs put him over two minutes clear of his Raheny clubmate Freddy Keron Sittuk, who clearly had last weekend’s Longford Marathon in […]
Mark English of UCD finished second in the 600m at the Flame Games in Amsterdam, with his time of 1 min 15.71 secs breaking his own Irish record for this rarely run distance. Kenya’s Alfred Kipketer won the race in 1:15.60. On a chilly evening for athletics, Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan finished fourth in the 400m […]
Thomas Barr ended his season with a third place in the 400m hurdles in Zurich last night. Barr’s time of 49.79 secs put him less than a second behind local favourite Karien Hussein, who won the race in 49.16 secs. Second was Rasmus Mags of Estonia in 49.35. Mark English runs the 600m and Brian […]
Conor Dooney from Davy led home over 4,500 finishers at the Grant Thornton Corporate 5km held in Dublin’s Docklands. His time of 14 mins 49 secs saw him finishing seven seconds clear of John Coghlan from the Run Hub. Former marathon international Sean Connolly, back in Dublin and working as a primary school teacher, made […]
From ALAN O’NEILL Calling all marathoners! Are you running the Dublin City Marathon this year? Well if the answer is yes, I would love to have you on my marathon team. Our team are hoping to raise much needed funds to purchase a running blade for Neil Hoey. Neil had his leg amputated five years […]
For some people one marathon in a life is quite enough; for others marathon running has become their life, as the number of small-scale marathons taking place almost every weekend around the country testifies. For instance, between August 14 and 17 last week, fifty-one men and women tackled a marathon a day in the scenic […]
Raheny’s Freddy Keron Sittuk proved the class of the field at the Pat the Baker Marathon, when he won comfortably in 2 hrs 37 mins 45 seconds. Over eight minutes behind for second was West Waterford’s Raivis Zakis. Siobhan McHugh of Clonmel AC was first woman in 3 hrs 23 mins 55 secs. Caroline Kelly […]
Sinead Diver from Belmullet in Co Mayo finished 21st in the marathon at the World Championships in Beijing. Representing Australia, the Melbourne-based Diver crossed the line in 2:36:38. Aged 38, Diver moved to Australia at the age of 25 and is a mother of two. She took up running five years ago and caught the […]
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