A large group of Irish athletes headed for Geneva where victory for Ferrybank’s Kelly Proper in the 200m was the highlight, with her time of 23.26 secs putting her top of the current Irish rankings. Amy Foster clocked a time of 23.62 secs in the preliminary rounds. In the men’s 200m heats, Marcus Lawler of […]
Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu – or Sergiu Eireannach in the race results! – ran 31 mins 12 secs in a 10km in Casablanca. Some experience, as he says on his Facebook. “This is Morocco they say. Ran 31:12min for the Casablanca 10km; very hot and humid, but this wasn’t the worst. The race started while 30-40 […]
Raheny’s Mark Kirwan proved the surprise winner of the 30th Patrick Bell/Nicky Phillips 5km in Bohermeen this evening. His time of 14 mins 57 secs put him just five seconds clear of Annadale’s Paddy Hamilton, with Peter Brandon Somba, now running in Dunboyne colours, finishing third. First woman was Charlotte Kearney of Donadea Runners in […]
Donore’s John Travers managed to stay on his feet long enough to win the 800m at Wednesday’s Graded Meet in Tallaght. Have a look at his Facebook to see what happened! John Coghlan, who is targeting the steeplechase this season, ran away with the 3000m in 8:31.1. Abroad, Mary Cullen clocked a time of 15:29.99 […]
Thomas Barr of Ferrybank improved his own 400m hurdles record to 48.65 secs at the Diamond League in Rome tonight. Running in lane two, Barr moved up to fourth place from seventh in the home straight. Johnny Dutch of the USA won the race in 48.13, with his American team mate Michael Tinsley second in […]
One of the great pleasures of athletics is peering through results. Have you made the top 100? Did you beat an old rival? How did your pals run in relation to you? Yet for some reason, the Women’s Mini Marathon organisers deprive us of this pleasure by printing the names of finishers alphabetically. Here are […]
Maria McCambridge of DSD proved the class of the field at the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon and despite the dreadful conditions, clocked a personal best time for the race of 34 mins 3 secs on her way to victory. It was fourth time lucky for McCambridge since 2010 alone; she has been running the race […]
Cillian O’Leary of Raheny Shamrock has won the Cork City Marathon in 2:30.41. O’Leary, who comes from Cork, finished exactly a minute ahead of Vincent Chepyegon. Chepyegon had built a sizeable lead at the 19 mile mark but started to fade and was caught by O’Leary with 800m to go. Third in 2:32.29 was Brian […]
Freddy Keron Sittuk of Raheny Shamrock won the SSE Airtricity Walled City Marathon in Derry by almost three minutes. Sittuk’s time was 2:22.34; finishing second was Peter Brandon Somba in 2:25.26. Local man Greg Roberts was a close third in 2:25.38, followed by Gideon Kipsang and then Lezan Kimutai who was first over 40. Finishing […]
Defending champion Zak Irwin of Sligo Grammar ran a European Junior qualifying time of 10.60 seconds to win the senior 100m at the Glo Health All Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore. His time was just one-hundredth of a second off Marcus Lawler’s 2013 record of 10.59. Later in the day, Irwin, who […]
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