Ciara Mageean of UCD ran a personal best 4 mins 35.47 secs to finish second in the Great North Run Mile at Newcastle yesterday. The race was won by Scotland’s Laura Muir in 4:34.84. Donore’s John Travers finished 7th in the men’s mile with a time of 4:03.68. In the much-hyped 30th anniversary Great North […]
After winning the European title earlier this season, Rathfarnham’s Mark Ryan finished third at the World Masters Mountain running Championships in Telfes, Austria today. And not only that – on a great day for the Irish, Ryan combined with his Rathfarnham clubmates Paul Fleming and Peter O’Farrell to take team bronze, while in the M55 […]
Mark English is the only Irish athlete selected for the Europe team at the IAAF Continental Cup to be held in Marrakesh, Morocco, from 13-14 September. He will go in the 800m. In total 85 athletes will represent Europe. They will take on teams from the Americas, Africa, and Asia/Pacific (Asia and Oceania) CONOR Dooney […]
World indoor record holder Joe Gough added yet another medal to his vast collection when he won the M60 800m at the European Masters’ Championships in Izmir, Turkey. After going through 400m in 76 seconds, Gough’s time of 2:20.89 put him comfortably clear of Walter Rentsch from Germany. Also winning gold was Galway’s Martin McEvilly […]
Raheny raiders dominated the annual Rockford Roof Tiles 4-Mile just outside Carlow with Freddy Keron Sittuk and Daire Bermingham the top two men and Maria O’Sullivan and Patrycja Wlodarczyk the first two women. There was an exceptional performance from Sli Cualann’s Mick Byrne who finished 10th overall and first master – not bad for a […]
Freddy Keron Sittuk of Raheny and Tullamore’s Pauline Curley were the winners of the Longford Marathon. In an exact repeat of last year, Sittuk – although five minutes slower than in 2013 – was first and Gary O’Hanlon of Clonliffe second. On her annual visit to Longford, Curley was beating Angela McCann of Clonmel for […]
Maria McCambridge of DSD won the SSE Airtricity Frank Duffy 10-Mile for a fifth time out of eight starts in Dublin’s Phoenix Park this morning. McCambridge was out on her own from the start and clocked an excellent time of 55 mins 15 secs. Afterwards, she confirmed that she will be defending her Irish marathon […]
Donore’s supervet Jim McNamara ran a super 44.09 in the Duleek 10km – a new M75 record. Only a week earlier Jim Mac had set a new 5000m record at the Irish Masters in Tullamore. Winners of the race were Gary O’Hanlon and Patrycja Wlodarcyzk. MARTIN FAGAN had a comfortable victory in 14 mins 11 […]
Paul Robinson finished fourth in a dramatic 1500m while the Irish men’s 4 x 400m team set a new national record at the final session of the Europeans Championships in Zurich. In the 1500m Ciaran O Lionaird was tripped from behind on the second last lap. There were two more fallers on the last lap. […]
Two great performances by young Irish athletes this weekend- in Belgium at the Flanders Cup in Leuven, Sara Treacy of Dunboyne won the women’s steeplechase in a new personal best time of 9:47.92; 9:45 was the A standard for the European Championships starting in Zurich on Tuesday. After a string of good results, Sara, who […]
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