After her Rio ’16 exploits, Leevale’s Lizzie Lee made a triumphant return to the Irish roads when she won today’s Charleville International Half Marathon in Co Cork. Lee’s time of 79 mins 47 mins put her comfortably clear of Jill Hodgins who finished in 82 mins 12 secs. Dunboyne’s Emilia Dan was third in 85 […]
Rio Olympian Mick Clohisey – who competed in the marathon in the 2016 Olympic Games – will link up with more than a hundred of his colleagues from Raheny Shamrock Athletic club next Saturday (September 17) for a marathon relay run in memory of Waterford native, Ronan Walsh who died earlier this year. A native […]
UCD’s Mark English was just beaten by Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha over 500m yesterday at the Great North City Games in Newcastle – a warm-up event for the Great North Run that took place this morning. Rudisha’s time for the rarely-run distance was 57.69 secs – the fastest time ever. English’s time of 57.91 […]
Olympic steeplechasers Michelle Finn and Kerry O’Flaherty travelled to Berlin for Saturday’s ISTAF Meeting, where they finished seventh and ninth. Finn was first home of the pair in 9:47.51 with O’Flaherty timed a 10:10.57. Race winner was the gloriously named Celliphine Chepteek Chespol of Kenya, aged 18, who finished in 9:25.49. Raheny’s Freddy Sittuk, who […]
Thomas Barr , who finished a memorable fourth in the 400m hurdles at the Rio Olympics just over a fortnight ago, ended his season at the Zurich Diamond League on Thursday evening – and then headed for Stradbally and the Electric Picnic. In a top level race in Zurich, Barr finished sixth in 49.34 secs, […]
Raheny’s Ian Conroy has won the world over 35 mountain running title in Susa, Italy. Conroy ran a superb race on the uphill only 11.5km course to finish third overall behind Cesar Costa of Portugal, overall winner and first M40, and the legendary Jonathan Wyatt of New Zealand. The many times former world champion wore […]
Slieve Gullion’s Paddy Hamilton won the Rochford 4-Mile in Tinryland, Carlow tonight. Hamilton’s time of 19 mins 56 secs put him comfortably clear of Kilkenny’s Brian Maher, with Cillian O’Leary of Raheny in third place. Finishing 12th overall and first woman in 22 mins 19 secs was Caroline Crowley of Crusaders. Raheny’s Annette Kealy was […]
By John Walshe IN March of next year, the famous Ballycotton ‘10’ will celebrate its 40th birthday. But let us not forget the race that started it all, and without it, it’s unlikely that road running in this region would have attained the huge popularity it now has. The date was Thursday August 11th 1977 […]
New master Paddy Hamilton of Slieve Gullion Runners proved one of the stars of today’s Glo Health National Masters Track and Field Championships in Tullamore. Hamilton was an imperious winner of the men’s 5000m in 15 mins 8.53 secs. Second overall and first M40 was Declan Reed of City of Derry Spartans in 15:27.49. Later […]
Paul Pollock of Annadale Striders finish 32nd in the marathon at the Rio Olympics, finishing in 2:16:24. Pollock passed through halfway in 68:09 in 96th place coming through strongly in the second half of the race. His training partner Kevin Seaward of St Malachy’s finished 64th in 2:20:06 while Raheny’s Mick Clohisey was 103rd in […]
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