Ciara Mageean of UCD made an impressive return to competition with a time of 4:08.32 – her second fastest ever – at the KBC Nacht in Heusden, Belgium last night. It’s by some way the fastest 1500m time run by an Irish female athlete this season so far and not far off the 4:07.45 Mageean […]
Ireland just missed out on a medal in the women’s 4 x 100m relay at the European Junior Track and Field Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Only a lunging dip by the French anchor woman gave them bronze ahead of Ireland. The Irish time of 45.38 seconds was still a national junior record, improving on the […]
Sarah McCormack was an emphatic winner of the women’s race at the 40th Snowdon International in Llanberis, Wales yesterday. Last year, foul weather forced the organisers to shorten the race course for the first time in its history and McCormack came home a clear winner. Yesterday she was equally dominant over the standard 10-mile route […]
A brilliant race up front at the SSE Airtricity Fingal 10km saw Mick Clohisey and second placed Mark Kenneally both going under the course record of 30 mins 14 secs. It was a second course record for Clohisey in the Dublin Races Series; he also broke the record at the Irish Runner 5-Mile last month. […]
Kevin Mulcaire from Ennis finished just out of the medals in the men’s 5000m at the at the European Junior Track and Field Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Mulcaire finished a gutsy fourth in 14 mins 39.14 secs – less than four seconds off third place in a tactical race that only came alive in the […]
Trim’s Harry Purcell won his 800m heat at the European Juniors in Sweden, but will have to beware of the man who finished half a pace behind him in tomorrow’s semi-finals. The Russian Konstantin Tolokonnikov has a personal best of 1:46.42 and took silver at last year’s World Youth Championships. Just behind them were Jonas […]
Long jumper Sam Healy from Leevale produced the best Irish result of the day at the European Junior Track and Field Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Healy jumped a personal best 7.38m to finished second in his group and fourth best overall. He goes in the final tomorrow. Ciara Neville of Emerald in Limerick progressed from […]
There was huge disappointment in the men’s 800m at the European U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, where Mark English’s European U23 jinx continued. Two years ago, he didn’t even make the final. This time, he trailed in a dejected eighth and last. He had started well, moving smartly outside the German Krguer who took the […]
Ireland’s men and women’s 4 x 100m squads are through to the finals at the European U23 Championships in Tallin – and both set new Irish records on the their way. First up were the women who ran 44.68 secs to finish second behind Germany in the opening heat. Germany were majestic winners in 43.62 […]
A chilly blustery wind scuppered the chances of fast times at the GV Ryan IMC Meet in Santry; sprinters were running into a -2.8 headwind. In the 400m Brian Murphy of host club Crusaders ran a time of 47.74 secs, while Kilkenny’s Eoin Everard won a competitive 800m in 1:49.19. Hurdler Ger O’Donnell won the […]
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