Alannah Lally of UCD finished a fighting fourth in the women’s 800m at Day 3 of the Euro U23 team, Bydgoszcz, Poland on Saturday. In a tactical race, Siofra Cleirigh Butter ended up seventh. Qualifying for the women’s long jump final was Sarah McCarthy of Mid-Sutton with a brilliant 6.33m jump. In the 4 x […]
All 20,000 places for this year’s SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon on Sunday October 29 are now filled – over three months before race date. Official closing date for the race was October 1. Last year, when the race was moved to a Sunday for the first time, making the race an attractive option for overseas […]
One club picking up a number of medals at last weekend’s Irish Life Health All Ireland Juvenile Track and Field Championships was Strabane Lifford – the only club on this island (as far as we know) with one foot in the north and the other in the south. The towns sit on either side of […]
Ciara Mageean of UCD shaved over eight seconds off her outdoor mile best with a time of 4 mins 22.40 secs at today’s London Anniversary Games. At the bell, Mageean, who had drawn the inside lane, was lying ninth, but she pulled up two places on the final lap. Race winner was Helen Obiri of […]
Mick Clohisey and Sean Hehir continued their preparations for the marathon at the World Championships in London next month with a trip to the Roscommon ’10’. The pair dominated the race from the start, with Clohisey pulling away for victory on 48 mins 47 secs, with Hehir just over a minute behind for second.Finishing third […]
Setting a new Irish junior 4 x 100m record at Lausanne last night was the quartet of Ciara Neville, Molly Scott, Gina Moses and Sharlene Mawdsley. In a race won by the Swiss in a new national record time, the Irish women finished sixth in 44.31 secs, smashing the two-year old Irish record of 45.08 […]
Mark English of UCD didn’t start in the 800m at the second day of the Gyulai Istvan Memorial in Székesfehérvár, Hungary this evening. Winning the race was double Olympian champion and world record holder David Rudisha of Kenya.Kenyan Nicholas Kiplangat Kipkoech who has a season’s best of 1:44.9 (hand-held) is also listed to run. Ireland’s […]
Polish world record holder Patrycja Bernowska improved her own world record to 258.339km when winning the women’s title at the IAU World 24-Hour Championships in Victoria Park,Belfast yesterday. In February, Bernowska stretched the eight year old record to 252.6 kms at the Polish Championships. Translating her result to miles, she become the first woman to […]
With four golds to her credit, Clonliffe’s Snezana Bechtina was one of the undoubted stars at the Irish Life Health Irish Masters Track and Field Championships in Tullamore. Bechtina’s most impressive performance came in the W35 400 where she clocked a time of 58.77 secs to beat Lisburn’s former Irish international Kelly Neely. She proved […]
Kate O’Connor of St Gerard’s Dundalk has finished a brilliant third at the European Combined Events Team Championships 2nd League, in Monzon, Spain. O’Connor, aged just 16, moved gradually through the field, lying fifth overnight and then moving into fourth after today’s long jump and javelin. Her javelin throw of 45 m was the third […]
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