By John Walshe Last Sunday’s Ballyhooly 10km road race in North Cork saw a unique meeting between two people with historic miling connections. The race is held in honour of local man John Hartnett and this year the 1972 Olympian (who now lives in the US) was on hand to start the event and present […]
Pat Moore collected another medal for Ireland when he finished third in the M65 javelin at the World Masters in Lyon today with a throw of 43.75. In yesterday’s preliminary rounds, he threw 41.56m. Winner was Esa Kiuru of Finland with 50.95m. Just two days after winning 800m gold, West Waterford’s Joe Gough was lining […]
Carmel Parnell has won a second gold at the World Masters in Lyon – this time it’s in the W60 10,000m. Parnell’s time of 40:29.86 gave her over a minute and a half to spare on the second placed Dominique Combes of France who finished in 42:16.59. Mick Traynor of Raheny, who like Parnell had […]
Raheny’s Patrycja Wlodarczyk, running for her native Poland has won the W35 10,000m at the World Masters in Lyon, finishing in a time of 37 mins 05.31 secs. Cathy McCourt finished 4th in the W40 race in 39:15.28, while Jacqueline McMonagale was seventh W45 in 41:00.42. In the 200m semi-finals, both Hazel Galloway W55 and […]
On a great day for the Irish team, both Joe Gough of West Waterford and City of Lisburn’s Kelly Neely won gold in the 800m finals at the World Masters T-F Lyon today. Since he turned 60, Gough has won European outdoor gold, and world indoor indoor gold and set a world indoor record for […]
Ciara Mageean of UCD took the Athlete of the Meet award for her scintillating victory in the women’s 800m at the second day of the Glo Health National Track and Field Championships in Santry. Mageean, who had won the 1500m last year after a long break from the sport, was out on her own from […]
Local man Gary Thornton won the 30th Streets of Galway 8km, sponsored by Kearney Cycles. Thornton’s time of 23 mins 53 secs saw him relegate Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu, who finished in 24 mins 12 secs, to second place. First woman and tenth overall was DSD’s Maria McCambridge , who, like Thornton, is in full marathon […]
Wins for Mary Cullen in the 5000m, Mark Christie in the 10,000m and Anita White in the javelin proved the highlights of the first day of the Glo Health National Track and Field Championships in Santry. Christie, of Mullingar Harriers, ran a smart race in the men’s 10,000m letting Raheny’s Mick Clohisey take the lead […]
Carmel Parnell of Leevale who won the W60 8km cross-country on Tuesday added a silver in the 5000m to her collection today at the World Masters in Lyon. Raheny’s Mick Traynor, who had won the M50 cross-country, finished third in his 5000m, while in the W40 race, Maria McCarthy from Kerry was a brilliant second […]
Carmel Parnell of Leevale and Raheny Shamrock Mick Traynor both took gold on a great opening day for the Irish at the World Masters Track and Field Championships in Lyon, France. In the cross-country, Parnell won the W60 category and Traynor the M50 class. Other medal winners were John Dunne of Donore 2nd M35 andCarmel […]
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