Ismail Ssenyange and Maria McCambridge came out on top at the Charleville International Half Marathon in Co Cork. For Ssenyange, who is Ugandan and a member of the Dubai Creek Striders, it was third time lucky – he finished second in both 2013 and last year. McCambridge, who is aiming to make the Rio ’16 […]
Ireland’s Sarah McCormack finished a fighting ninth in the women’s race at the World Mountain Running Championships in Betws-y-Coed, Wales. Uganda’s Sally Chesang, the women’s junior winner from last year when the race was uphill only, underlined her huge potential when she won the race from the British trio of Emily Collinge, Emma Clayton and […]
Eoin Callaghan of Star of the Sea and Karen Alexander of Acorns AC were the winners of the SSE Airtricity Half Marathon in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Callaghan’s time of 68 mins 21 secs saw him finish over a minute ahead of Clonliffe’s David Mansfield. The women’s race was closer with Alexander just fourteen seconds clear […]
Martin McDonald of Ballyroan Abbeyleix and District proved the star of the Irish team when he finished second over 55 at the World Masters Mountain Running Championships in Betws-y-Coed, Wales. McDonald just held off fellow Irish athlete Ger Maloney of St Paul’s in Wexford for the silver medal. With Ger Griffin sixth the Irish also […]
Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu, who runs the Berlin Marathon at the end of the month, set a new course record of 66 mins 17 secs on his way to victory at the Flatline Athlone Half Marathon. Jane Anne Healy of Athenry was first woman. Mark English won the 500m in 59.58 secs at the Great North […]
Thomas Barr finished his season with a fifth place in the 400m hurdles at the Brussels Diamond League tonight. Barr’s time was 49.80scs. Winner of the race was Jeffery Gibson in 48.72. Kerry O’Flaherty made the pace in the women’s steeplechase. Winner was Habiba Ghribi of Tunisia in 9:05.36.
UCD’s Ciara Mageean finished second and ran a personal best of 4:06.54 for 1500m at the Rovereto track meet in Italy last night. Mageean’s time was marginally outside the 4:06 time she needs to qualify for Rio ’16. Canada’s Fiona Benson won the race in 4:05.61; another Canadian, Sheila Reid was third in 4:09.75. Laura […]
How great is this? There now are 33 Parkruns in the Republic, with 66,695 registered to run. So which one will have the best tea rooms? New Parkruns coming up: Cork parkrun 26 Sept; Father Collins parkrun 3 Oct; Donabate parkrun 10 Oct; Porterstown parkrun 17 Oct; Navan parkrun 17 Oct; Castletown parkrun Celbridge 24 […]
Mick Clohisey of Raheny – who runs the Berlin Marathon in a few weeks time – was an impressive winner of the Waterside Half Marathon in Derry. His time of 65 mins 8 secs put him over two minutes clear of his Raheny clubmate Freddy Keron Sittuk, who clearly had last weekend’s Longford Marathon in […]
Mark English of UCD finished second in the 600m at the Flame Games in Amsterdam, with his time of 1 min 15.71 secs breaking his own Irish record for this rarely run distance. Kenya’s Alfred Kipketer won the race in 1:15.60. On a chilly evening for athletics, Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan finished fourth in the 400m […]
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