Rio-bound steeplechaser Sara Treacy of Dunboyne had the best best possible send-off when she ran a personal best 9 mins 30.41 secs to finish sixth in the 3000m steeplechase at the London Anniversary Games today. It was her first time under 9 mins 40 secs and puts her third on the all-time Irish rankings behind […]
A huge PB of 2:00.79 for Ciara Mageean of UCD proved the highlight of tonight’s Morton Games in Santry. Last month, Mageean improved her time to 2:02.84 at the Northern Irish Championships in Belfast, and she showed she meant business tonight going through the opening 400m lap in 59 secs and 600m in 1:30 along […]
Hurdler Christine McMahon ran a big personal best of 56.06 secs to finish second in the 400m hurdles in Heusden last night. Her time – agonisingly – was inside the Olympic qualifying standard of 56.20 secs, but too late for the IAAF selection deadline. Also over the past week, Mark English ran a time of […]
From a statement made by Sven Arne Hansen of European Athletics today “…many people have been discussing the issue of transfer of allegiance, whereby athletes switch the country for whom they represent in international competitions. “This is, of course, a matter where the IAAF is the ultimate authority and in my role as an IAAF […]
European Track and Field Championships, Amsterdam, 6-10 July 2016. www.amsterdam2016.org Wednesday July 6 12.10 Women’s 400m heats – Ht 1, 6 Claire Mooney 55.66. Ht 3, 3 Sinead Denny 53.95; Q for SF. 12.35 Men’s 400m heats – Ht 1, 7 Craig Lynch 47.61. Ht 2, 8 David Gillick 47.81. Ht 3, 5 Brian […]
Jenna Brommell of Emerald pulled off one of the performances of the day at the Glo Health National Junior and U23 T-F Championships in Tullamore when she won the junior 400m with a time of 54.26 secs. DSD’s Mollie O’Reilly was second in 55.52 secs – just off a second world junior B qualification mark. […]
Petr Frydrych, Czech Republic, is the latest big name to be announced for tomorrow night’s Letterkenny International International Track and Field Meet. With a personal best of 88.23m, Frydrych is the third best Czech javelin thrower of all time, just behind his coach, three time Olympic champion and world record holder, Jan Zelezny. Frydrych, who […]
After concentrating on the 400m for the past few weeks, Bandon’s Phil Healy returned to the shorter distances at last night’s 65th Cork City Sports. Healy, who is on both the Irish 4x100m and 4x400m squads for the European Championships starting next week in Amsterdam, won the women’s 100m in a season’s best time of […]
Two thrilling 400m races brought Santry to its feet on the second day of the Glo Health National Track and Field Championships today. First up were the women where the defending champion Sinead Denny of DSD just got to the line ahead of Bandon’s Phil Healy. Her time was 53.64 secs; Healy clocked 53.78 secs […]
An absorbing men’s 10,000m won by Brandon Hargreaves of DSD was just one of the highlights of today’s opening day of the Glo Health National Track and Field Championships. Rio-bound marathon man Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock had made the early running helped by his Raheny training partner Freddy Sittuk, but was tracked all the […]
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