With less than a fortnight to go until the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, Irish hurdler Thomas Barr has a place in the final of the 400m hurdles firmly in his sights. This year, Barr has smashed his own Irish record and taken the gold at the World University Games in Korea – a massive […]
Dundrum South Dublin’s women won a fifth consecutive title at the Glo Health National Track and Field League final in wind-swept Tullamore. Leevale chased DSD hard – as they had done two years ago- and had more individual winners, but the Dublin club picked up points across the board and that told in the end. […]
Annadale’s Paul Pollock has won the Glo Health National Half Marathon in Dublin beating the defending champion Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock. Pollock’s training partner Kevin Seaward of St Malachy’s was third and Leevale’s Mark Hanrahan fourth. At three miles, Pollock was part of a group of nine, with Clohisey pushing the pace, along with […]
Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan ran a season’s best 45.85 secs to win the 400m at the Rasschaert Memorial meet in Ninova Belgium. In the 400m hurdles, Paul Byrne ran 50.82 secs – his second fastest ever. Kelly Proper equaled her season’s best with a time of 23.24 secs in the 200m. At the English Championships in […]
Rory Chesser anchored Ennis Track Club to victory in the inaugural Dublin distance medley relay which proved the highlight of the final Dublin Graded Meet of the season in Tallaght. The format was a 1200m followed by 400m, 800m and 1600m and teams had to contain one woman (at least). A total of seventeen teams […]
Sunday July 26 B-5 Bettystown 5-Mile, Co Meath (285 finishers; www.precisiontiming.net) Men: 1 David Rooney (Raheny) 25.19, 2 Brandon Hargreaves (DSD) 25.31, 3 Brian McCluskey 26.01. M50: Turlough Conway (Rathfarnahm WSAF, M40) 27.28. M50: Patrick Malone (Newbridge) 28.39. Jun: Dylan Keegan (Templeogue AC) 28.47. Women: 1 Laura McDonnell (Tallaght) 30.37, 2 Mary Hanley (Na Fianna, […]
Mark English of UCD ran an Olympic qualifying time of 1:45.49 for fourth in a top quality 800m at the Anniversary Games in London. “Thrilled to run Olympic qualifying time in London today. Love this track and crowd,” he tweeted afterwards. The standard for Rio ’16 is 1:45.80 – faster than the 1:46.00 need for […]
Six stadium records fell at the Ton le Gaoithe – Night of Sprints meet in Waterford on Tuesday night. They were: 100m women: Kelly Proper 11.54 +1.2 100m men: Jonathan Browning 10.59 +1.3 110mh: Ben Reynolds 13.62 +0.2 200m women: Kelly Proper 23.35 +1.1 200m men: Brian Gregan 21.26 +2.0 HJ men: Barry Pender 2.13m […]
Sara Tracey of Dunboyne AC has gone under the Rio ’16 qualifying mark of 9 mins 45 secs for the women’s steeplechase for the second time in 12 days. At the Karlstad GP in Sweden, Tracey finished third in 9:44.35 – marginally slower than the 9:44.14 she ran in Letterkenny and outside the time of […]
By Ed Smith (with thanks) In the early hours of Saturday morning, Eoin Keith, 46, was feeling so bad at the Energia 24-Hour race on the Mary Peters’ track, Belfast that he was about to give up. It was 2am and eight hours into this most demanding ultra test of mind and body. The decision […]
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