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Sittuk Wins Navan 6km; Fagan Best at Mullingar League. Plus Graded No 2

Just five days after winning the Limerick Marathon, Raheny’s Freddy Keron Sittuk was pushed hard at the Navan 6km,  just outlasting Brian McCluckey of North East Runners for victory in 19 mins 3 secs.  A close third and first over 50 was Mick Traynor of Raheny, First woman was Caitirona O’Brien of Bohermeen. First woman […]

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Barr is European Facebook Athlete of the Month

Ireland’s Thomas Barr  and Greek pole vaulter Ekaterini Stefanidi  have been voted European Athletes of the Month for April. Barr,  who ran a European-leading 400m hurdles time of 49.04 secs at the Tom Jones Classic in Gainesville, USA, on 24 April,  had over 1,300 Facebook votes and 280 retweets and favourites on Twitter. Stefanidi’s 4.71m […]

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Kositany wins Belfast Marathon in 2:19.36

Joel Kositany has won today’s Deep River Rock Belfast Marathon in a time of 2:19.36.  Kositany, from Kenya, was runner up in last year’s race and won it in 2013.   He finished almost a minute clear of second placed Gideon Kimosop, also from Kenya with Tamas Janos Nagy third in  2:24:22. Local man Eddie McGinley  […]

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Roads: Tallaght Wins for Fitzpatrick, McCambridge. Sittuk Wins Limerick Marathon

Tomas Fitzpatrick made it a home victory for a second year at the Tallaght 5km, when he beat a quality field including Clonliffe’s Mark Kenneally and Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock. His winning time was 14 mins  37 secs. Finishing 11th overall and first woman in  16 mins 26 secs was Maria McCambridge who, like […]

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Irish 6th in 4×400 heats at World Relays, Mulcaire runs 14:08.85 for 5000m

The Irish 4 x 400m quartet finished sixth in the third heat at the World Relay Championships in the Bahamas. Trinidad and Tobago won the heat in a time of 3 mins 02.9 secs, followed by Belgium 3:02.41 and Britain 3:03.28, who have made the final and one of two fastest qualifiers.  Ireland finished sixth  […]

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World Relays Bahamas: The Timetable

Today – Saturday 2 May  (Bahamas are four hours behind us) 19.00 (1am our time) Men’s 4 x 400m heats (Irish team – from Thomas Barr, Brian Gregan, Craig Lynch, Dara Kerwick, Brian Murphy, Richard Morrissey) 19.29 Women’s 4 x 200m hts 19.46 Men’s 4 x 100m hts 20.09  Men’s 4 x 800m final 2032 […]

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Roads: Freddy Sittuk Wins Samsung Night Run; record for Bidwell

FREDDY KERON SITTUK of Raheny Shamrock won the Samsung Night run 10km  in 31 mins 29 secs. Just a second behind was last year’s winner Peter Brandon Somba, while third was DSD’s international mountain runner Killian Mooney in 32 mins 3 secs, beating Lezan Kimutai, a regular visitor to Ireland for over a decade now. […]

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Cross-Country Gets Major Re-Vamp

A new November date for the annual interclub cross-country championships is the big decision to have emerged from the Athletics Ireland’s annual Congress held in Northwood, Santry over the weekend. The national junior and senior inter club cross country championships will replace the intercounties as the selection race for the European Cross Country, with the […]

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Round-Up: Cleirigh Buttner’s Villanova gold; Barr makes mark

Siofra Cleirigh Buttner of DSD helped her American college Villanova to victory in the College Women’s Distance Medley Championships of American held in conjunction with the Penn Relays last Thursday. Cleirigh Buttner ran the 800m leg – the third – in 2:09.91.  Also on the team were Angel Piccirillo (3:23.25), Michaela Wilkins  (56.30) and Stephanie […]

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Road Relay Titles for Donore and Leevale

Donore’s men and the Leevale women won the senior titles at the Glo Health National Road Relays, hosted by Raheny Shamrock in Dublin. For Donore, it was their first victory since 1992; the club has the distinction of winning the first ever National Relays held in 1973 in Wexford. Among the team members that day […]

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