Today – Saturday 2 May (Bahamas are four hours behind us) 19.00 (1am our time) Men’s 4 x 400m heats (Irish team – from Thomas Barr, Brian Gregan, Craig Lynch, Dara Kerwick, Brian Murphy, Richard Morrissey) 19.29 Women’s 4 x 200m hts 19.46 Men’s 4 x 100m hts 20.09 Men’s 4 x 800m final 2032 […]
FREDDY KERON SITTUK of Raheny Shamrock won the Samsung Night run 10km in 31 mins 29 secs. Just a second behind was last year’s winner Peter Brandon Somba, while third was DSD’s international mountain runner Killian Mooney in 32 mins 3 secs, beating Lezan Kimutai, a regular visitor to Ireland for over a decade now. […]
A new November date for the annual interclub cross-country championships is the big decision to have emerged from the Athletics Ireland’s annual Congress held in Northwood, Santry over the weekend. The national junior and senior inter club cross country championships will replace the intercounties as the selection race for the European Cross Country, with the […]
Siofra Cleirigh Buttner of DSD helped her American college Villanova to victory in the College Women’s Distance Medley Championships of American held in conjunction with the Penn Relays last Thursday. Cleirigh Buttner ran the 800m leg – the third – in 2:09.91. Also on the team were Angel Piccirillo (3:23.25), Michaela Wilkins (56.30) and Stephanie […]
Donore’s men and the Leevale women won the senior titles at the Glo Health National Road Relays, hosted by Raheny Shamrock in Dublin. For Donore, it was their first victory since 1992; the club has the distinction of winning the first ever National Relays held in 1973 in Wexford. Among the team members that day […]
Martin Fagan of Mullingar Harriers ran a time of 2:16.09 at the Zurich Marathon – outside the qualifying mark of 2:15.30 set by Athletics Ireland for the World Championships. In Manchester, Eoin Callaghan of Star of the Sea ran a huge personal best time of 2:18.45 – six minutes faster than the 2:24 he ran […]
Emmett Jennings of DSD – a regular at this race – at last nailed down victory at the Ras UCD 5km, held around the Belfield campus in glorious sunshine. Laura Shaughnessy, the race director in previous years, was first woman. All funds went to UCD Volunteers Overseas. Pics at www.flickr.com/lindie Saturday April 18 Ras UCD, […]
With the A and B system gone, the most surprising aspect of these qualification standards are the marathon marks: 2:17 for men and 2:42 for women. Very soft – compared to, say, the 10,000m mark of 28 mins for men and 32 mins 15 secs for women. By contrast, the IAAF qualfiying marks for the […]
Belvedere’s boys and the girls of St Peter’s Dunboyne were the overall winners at today’s West Leinster Medley relays held in Santry. A total of 320 students in eighty teams participated and well as 45 boys and 18 girls in the open 800m, making it the idea warm-up for the Leinster schools zone qualifiers. These […]
Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock ran a time of 2:17.42 to finish best of the Irish in his debut marathon at Rotterdam. Thomas Frazer was just behind him in 2:17.44, while Gary Thornton of GCH ran 2:18.21 and Rathfarnham’s Sean Hehir 2:19.23. Hampered by a groin strain was Donore master John Dunne who still finished […]
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