Rory Chesser anchored Ennis Track Club to victory in the inaugural Dublin distance medley relay which proved the highlight of the final Dublin Graded Meet of the season in Tallaght. The format was a 1200m followed by 400m, 800m and 1600m and teams had to contain one woman (at least). A total of seventeen teams […]
Sunday July 26 B-5 Bettystown 5-Mile, Co Meath (285 finishers; www.precisiontiming.net) Men: 1 David Rooney (Raheny) 25.19, 2 Brandon Hargreaves (DSD) 25.31, 3 Brian McCluskey 26.01. M50: Turlough Conway (Rathfarnahm WSAF, M40) 27.28. M50: Patrick Malone (Newbridge) 28.39. Jun: Dylan Keegan (Templeogue AC) 28.47. Women: 1 Laura McDonnell (Tallaght) 30.37, 2 Mary Hanley (Na Fianna, […]
Mark English of UCD ran an Olympic qualifying time of 1:45.49 for fourth in a top quality 800m at the Anniversary Games in London. “Thrilled to run Olympic qualifying time in London today. Love this track and crowd,” he tweeted afterwards. The standard for Rio ’16 is 1:45.80 – faster than the 1:46.00 need for […]
Six stadium records fell at the Ton le Gaoithe – Night of Sprints meet in Waterford on Tuesday night. They were: 100m women: Kelly Proper 11.54 +1.2 100m men: Jonathan Browning 10.59 +1.3 110mh: Ben Reynolds 13.62 +0.2 200m women: Kelly Proper 23.35 +1.1 200m men: Brian Gregan 21.26 +2.0 HJ men: Barry Pender 2.13m […]
Sara Tracey of Dunboyne AC has gone under the Rio ’16 qualifying mark of 9 mins 45 secs for the women’s steeplechase for the second time in 12 days. At the Karlstad GP in Sweden, Tracey finished third in 9:44.35 – marginally slower than the 9:44.14 she ran in Letterkenny and outside the time of […]
By Ed Smith (with thanks) In the early hours of Saturday morning, Eoin Keith, 46, was feeling so bad at the Energia 24-Hour race on the Mary Peters’ track, Belfast that he was about to give up. It was 2am and eight hours into this most demanding ultra test of mind and body. The decision […]
Ciara Mageean of UCD made an impressive return to competition with a time of 4:08.32 – her second fastest ever – at the KBC Nacht in Heusden, Belgium last night. It’s by some way the fastest 1500m time run by an Irish female athlete this season so far and not far off the 4:07.45 Mageean […]
Ireland just missed out on a medal in the women’s 4 x 100m relay at the European Junior Track and Field Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Only a lunging dip by the French anchor woman gave them bronze ahead of Ireland. The Irish time of 45.38 seconds was still a national junior record, improving on the […]
Sarah McCormack was an emphatic winner of the women’s race at the 40th Snowdon International in Llanberis, Wales yesterday. Last year, foul weather forced the organisers to shorten the race course for the first time in its history and McCormack came home a clear winner. Yesterday she was equally dominant over the standard 10-mile route […]
A brilliant race up front at the SSE Airtricity Fingal 10km saw Mick Clohisey and second placed Mark Kenneally both going under the course record of 30 mins 14 secs. It was a second course record for Clohisey in the Dublin Races Series; he also broke the record at the Irish Runner 5-Mile last month. […]
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