By now, you all know that Mark English ran a smart race to take 800m silver at the Europeans Indoors. There was also a breakthrough run by John Travers who ran two hard 1500m races in two days and encouraging performances from all the rest of the young team. Men – 400m: Dara Kervick (Conliffe), […]
Maria McCambridge of DSD proved the star of the 38th Ballycotton ’10’ when she smashed her own course record with a winning women’s time of 54 mins 20 secs. Not only that, but Maria now “owns” the three fastest women’s times in the race – she ran 54.48 in 2012 and 55.01 a year later. […]
Kevin Mulcaire of St Flannan’s Ennis and Rhona Pierce from St Angela’s Cork took the senior titles at the Glo Health All Ireland Schools Cross-Country Championships held at Clongowes Wood in blustery conditions. Mulcaire was taking a third consecutive title – he won the intermediate races in 2014 and 2013 – and his victory came […]
Raheny’s Mick Clohisey and Maria McCambridge took the senior titles at the Glo Health National Interclub Cross-Country Championships held in Kilbroney, Co Down. Clohisey, the defending champion, had a comfortable victory in the senior men’s 12km race over Sergiu Ciobanu of Clonliffe, DSD’s Brendan O’Neill and Clonmel’s Kevin Maunsell – the big four in the […]
Dunboyne junior Jack Nyhan threw a personal best 14.26m to win the shot putt at the Dunboyne Winter Throws Festival. Para athlete Sean Hughes from Dunboyne, aged just 16, broke his own Irish senior record five times out of six attempts. Winner of the women’s shot was Anne-Marie Torsney from Fingallians with 11.57m A total […]
European 800m bronze medal winner t Mark English will lead a 12-strong Irish team at the European Indoor Championships in Prague next week. Clonliffe’s Irish-American Declan Murray will join him in the 800m, while and English’s UCD teammate Ciara Everard goes in the women’s 800m where she hoped to repeat her performance of two years […]
Connacht Schools Cross Country Sligo Racecourse, Tuesday 24 February (updated) Girls – Minor: 1 Saoirse O’Brien, Sacred Heart Westport; 2 Niamh O’Reilly, Moate CS, 3 Éadaoin Ní Longáin, Coláiste na Coiribe. Teams – 1 St Nathy’s Ballaghdereen 42 (10, 14, 18), 2 Sacred Heart Westport 53 (1, 25, 27), 3 Coláiste Bhaile Chláir 69 (15, […]
Triathletes Aileen Reid and Conor Murphy launched their 1025 campaigns by competing in the Tinonman Sprint Triathlon in San Diego, USA; the pair had been training in the area and were using the race as a fitness test before the forthcoming World Triathlon Series, with the opening race in Abu Dhabi on March 7. In […]
At the Glo Health National Indoors in Athlone, Dara Kerwick of Clonliffe won the 400m in 46. 53 secs – an improvement on the time of 46.80 secs he had run in the heats and comfortably inside the European Indoors qualification mark of 47.20 secs. Timmy Crowe of Leevale was bumped out of the race, […]
American visitor Joe Stilin won the men’s 5km at the 25th anniversary Armagh International Road Races in a time of 13 mins 58.34 secs. In a close fought race, British athlete Daniel Cliffe finished second in 13:59.47, with British Olympic triathlete Jonathan Brownlee third in 14:00.13. England’s Rachael Bamford won the women’s 3km from Teresa […]
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