Siofra Cleirigh Buttner of DSD is to run the 800m at the NCAA Championships for Villanova on March 11-12 Cleirigh Buttner’s time of 2:03.72 earlier this season is a new Villanova record and ranks sixth on this year’s national performance list . As a freshman last year, Cleirigh Buttner ran at the NCAA experience as […]
Carlow’s Marcus Lawler celebrated his 21st birthday by winning the 200m with a new stadium record of 20.96 secs at the Glo Health National Indoor Championships in Athlone. Lawler had warmed up for the 200m by finishing a fighting fifth in the 60m won by Shercock’s Craig Lynch in 6.81; Lawler ran 6.92 secs. Dominating […]
Ireland’s three Rio steeplechase qualifiers dominated the women’s 3000m at the Glo Health National Indoors in Athlone. Kerry O’Flaherty from Newcastle came home first in 9 mins 11.17 secs, followed by Dunboyne’s Sara Treacy in 9:19.96 and Michelle Finn of Leevale 9:21.93. O’Flaherty runs the women’s 1500m tomorrow in a bid for double gold. […]
Want to know how the 2013 world champion 50km walker Rob Heffernan trains? “It’s not that different to marathon training although we have to concentrate on technique – long walks, tempo, intervals. Plus massages and gym,” says a man who can walk a time of under three hours for the marathon distance and of 38 […]
Raheny’s Mick Clohisey finished tenth in this morning’s Seville Marathon with his time of 2:15. 11 moving him into second on the list for Rio ’16. It’s very tight – Kevin Seaward on 2:14.52 tops the list followed by Clohisey 2:15.11, Sergiu Ciobanu 2:15.15 and Paul Pollock 2:15.39. So just 47 secs separate the top […]
Ciara Mageean of UCD set a new Irish indoor record of 4:28.40 when finishing sixth in the women’s Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games in New York’s Armory. Shannon Rowberry was the winner in 4:24.39. On a good day for the Irish, John Travers of Donore ran a personal best 3:58:10 to finish sixth in […]
Rio-bound steeplechaser Sara Treacy of Dunboyne AC won the women’s 3km at the Armagh International Road Races tonight. Treacy’s time of 9 mins 15 secs was enough to see off the challenge of Scottish athletes Sarah Inglis in 9:19.01 and Laura Whittle third in 9:19.24. Ann Marie McGlynn of Letterkenny was sixth in 9:23.54, Newcastle’s […]
After a hard winter’s training Irish javelin champion Anita White begins her campaign to qualify for the European Championships at the end of the month. “I was able to take time off work thanks to a sponsorship deal with Vlogby, a video production company and the support I got from Beacon Face and Dermatology where […]
Mark English set a new Irish record of 60.93 secs for the rarely-run 500m distance at the Globen Galen in Stockholm. English won the race ahead of USA’s Erik Sowinski who finished in 61.72 secs. English, who will take part in an 800m race in Glasgow on Saturday, already holds the Irish junior outdoor and […]
Lizzie Lee of Leevale, running to make the qualifying time for the World Half Marathon, missed out on the course record at the Enniscorthy 10k by just eight seconds. Lee’s time of 33 minutes exactly was still a massive PB and saw her finish 5th overall. Lee was on target for Linda Byrne’s time of […]
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