One of the great pleasures of athletics is peering through results. Have you made the top 100? Did you beat an old rival? How did your pals run in relation to you? Yet for some reason, the Women’s Mini Marathon organisers deprive us of this pleasure by printing the names of finishers alphabetically. Here are […]
Maria McCambridge of DSD proved the class of the field at the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon and despite the dreadful conditions, clocked a personal best time for the race of 34 mins 3 secs on her way to victory. It was fourth time lucky for McCambridge since 2010 alone; she has been running the race […]
Cillian O’Leary of Raheny Shamrock has won the Cork City Marathon in 2:30.41. O’Leary, who comes from Cork, finished exactly a minute ahead of Vincent Chepyegon. Chepyegon had built a sizeable lead at the 19 mile mark but started to fade and was caught by O’Leary with 800m to go. Third in 2:32.29 was Brian […]
Freddy Keron Sittuk of Raheny Shamrock won the SSE Airtricity Walled City Marathon in Derry by almost three minutes. Sittuk’s time was 2:22.34; finishing second was Peter Brandon Somba in 2:25.26. Local man Greg Roberts was a close third in 2:25.38, followed by Gideon Kipsang and then Lezan Kimutai who was first over 40. Finishing […]
Defending champion Zak Irwin of Sligo Grammar ran a European Junior qualifying time of 10.60 seconds to win the senior 100m at the Glo Health All Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore. His time was just one-hundredth of a second off Marcus Lawler’s 2013 record of 10.59. Later in the day, Irwin, who […]
Mick Clohisey recorded a solid victory over Freddy Keron Sittuk at last night’s Dunboyne BHAA 5-Mile. Clohisey’s time of 23 mins 22 secs gave him a five second margin over Sittuk. Just a second behind for third was Peter Brandon Somba, while fourth was Lezan Kimutai, who was also first over 40. Kimutai, who started […]
At last – the European Athletics Federations has developed a programme that will set safety and quality standards for public road races. Under the Running for All banner, European Athletics will promote and administer the standards system through the european-running4all.org website. “At present, only limited regulations exist in some European countries, and they are not […]
In his outdoor season debut, UCD’s Mark English finished fifth with a time of 1:45.83 in a closely fought men’s 800m at the FBK Games in Hengelo. Winning in the dive for the line was Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski in a time of 1:45.56; Robin Schembera of Germany was second in 1:45.48, with South Africa’s Andre […]
Dublin’s Kenyan contingent had a useful workout at the Coca Cola HBC Foroige 5km in Blanchardstown. Peter Brandon Somba came home in first in 14 mins 54 secs, just beating Raheny’s Mick Clohisey, with Lezan Kimutai third and Josephine Killeen first woman. The Kenyans will run next Sunday’s SSE Airtricity Walled City Marathon in Derry, […]
Thomas Barr again went under 50 seconds when winning the 400m hurdles at the IFAN Meet in Belgium. Barr’s time of 49.50 secs put him comfortably clear of Belgium’s Michael Bultheel who finished in 50.61 secs. Barr’s Irish record stands at 48.90 secs; he ran 48.99 earlier this season in Doha. Ireland’s Jason Harvey was […]
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