Paul Fleming and Catherina McKiernan were the winners of the Grant Thornton Corporate 5km held in Blanchardstown. The event attracted 107 teams, most of them mixed. It will be interesting to see the effect of this corporate series on the Business Houses Athletics Association – coming up is the legendary ESB Beach 5km on Sandymount […]
Glo Health Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships Day 1, Santry Pics at www.lindie.zenfolio.com. Freebies at www.flickr.com/lindie GIRLS Senior – 100m H: 1 S Dawkins ( St Mary’s Naas), 14.68; 2 A Borrel (East Glendalough); 3 L L’Estrange (Santa Sabina). 1,500m S/ C: 1 A Armstrong (Coolmine CS) 5.18.25; 2 E Grennan (Killina SS);3 L […]
Ultra marathoner Eoin Keith ran a total of 814km at the Kaeser 6-Day, which ran from May 6-12 in Germany. It was a first six-day for Keith, who holds numerous Irish long distance records. Winning the race was the American Joe Fejes with 836km; Silke Gielen, a German in the over 55 age group, was […]
Fionnuala Britton of Kilcoole clocked a time of 32 mins 56 secs to finish seventh of the elite women at the Great Manchester 10km. Behind her Letterkenny’s Ann Marie McGlynn was 16th in 34 mins 52 secs. Kenyan athlete Betsy Saine was the winner in 31 mins 49 secs, with England’s Gemma Steel a close […]
Just five days after winning the Limerick Marathon, Raheny’s Freddy Keron Sittuk was pushed hard at the Navan 6km, just outlasting Brian McCluckey of North East Runners for victory in 19 mins 3 secs. A close third and first over 50 was Mick Traynor of Raheny, First woman was Caitirona O’Brien of Bohermeen. First woman […]
Ireland’s Thomas Barr and Greek pole vaulter Ekaterini Stefanidi have been voted European Athletes of the Month for April. Barr, who ran a European-leading 400m hurdles time of 49.04 secs at the Tom Jones Classic in Gainesville, USA, on 24 April, had over 1,300 Facebook votes and 280 retweets and favourites on Twitter. Stefanidi’s 4.71m […]
Joel Kositany has won today’s Deep River Rock Belfast Marathon in a time of 2:19.36. Kositany, from Kenya, was runner up in last year’s race and won it in 2013. He finished almost a minute clear of second placed Gideon Kimosop, also from Kenya with Tamas Janos Nagy third in 2:24:22. Local man Eddie McGinley […]
Tomas Fitzpatrick made it a home victory for a second year at the Tallaght 5km, when he beat a quality field including Clonliffe’s Mark Kenneally and Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock. His winning time was 14 mins 37 secs. Finishing 11th overall and first woman in 16 mins 26 secs was Maria McCambridge who, like […]
The Irish 4 x 400m quartet finished sixth in the third heat at the World Relay Championships in the Bahamas. Trinidad and Tobago won the heat in a time of 3 mins 02.9 secs, followed by Belgium 3:02.41 and Britain 3:03.28, who have made the final and one of two fastest qualifiers. Ireland finished sixth […]
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