The sensational news that Fionnuala Britton is to make her marathon debut at the European Championships has to overshadow all other discussion of a championships that could be the best ever from an Irish point of view. From Herald 8 August 2014. Britton’s main target for the games is the 10,000m on Tuesday evening after […]
Sarah Mulligan of DSD, running the distance for the first time, was a clear winner of the women’s race at the National Half Marathon, held in conjunction with the Rock ‘n’ Roll extravaganza today. Mulligan ran 76 mins 2 secs for the tough and hilly course that started at The Point in Dublin’s Docklands and […]
Fionnualla Britton of Kilcoole is to make her marathon debut at the forthcoming European Athletics Championships starting in Zurich Switzerland on Tuesday August 12. Britton will compete in the 10,000m on the opening night of competition and then line out in the women’s marathon on Saturday August 16. With Rio 2016 just two years away, […]
Dundrum South Dublin and Leevale won the Glo Health National League titles in Tullamore. The DSD women led almost from the start and finished on 107 points to take their fourth consecutive title. Clonliffe finished second 0n 95 points, with Kildare County third. Among the stand-out performers for DSD were Sinead Denny who ran 54.86 […]
Zoe Brown no marked in the women’s pole vault, held in treacherous and slippery conditions on the final night of athletics at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Only four made it past the final round, with the remainder going out at the opening height of 3.80. A day earlier, Danny Mooney ran a solid race […]
MARTIN FAGAN made it a home win at the inaugural Mullingar 10-Mile winning in a fast time of 48 mins 43 secs. Fagan, who returned to racing earlier this year after a two year doping ban, was out on his own for much of the race. Rathfarnham’s Sean Hehir was almost two minutes adrift in […]
Glo HealthNational Juvenile Track and FieldChampionships Days 3/4, July 26/27, Tullamore. GIRLS W12 – 600m: 1 A Kenna (Tallaght) 1:43.17, 2 A Doherty (Ennis Track) 1:44.28, 3 A McMenamin (Finn Valley) 1:46.57. Long Jump: 1 J Hanrahan (Brothers Pearse) 4.43, 2 P Owoeye (Ferrybank) 4.38, 3 S Okoh (Letterkenny) 4.35. W13 – 600m: 1 […]
Michaela Walsh of Swinford won both the hammer and the javelin at the final day of the Glo Health Juvenile Track and Field Championships in Tullamore. In an unusual throws double, Walsh threw a personal best of 60.83m in the hammer and 42.85m in the javelin. Other throwers in good form included Finn Valley’s James […]
Middle distance athlete Alanna Lally and hammer thrower Adam King proved the stars of the Glo Health Juvenile Track and Field Championships Day 3 in Tullamore today. Lally, of Galway City Harriers recorded an impressive W19 double, winning the 800m in 2:17.33 and then taking the 400m title in 56.64. In the M18 hammer (5kg) […]
UCD’s Karl Griffin finished 4th in his 800m semi-finals at the World Junior Championships in Oregon on Saturday night. His time of 1:49.97 was not fast enough to make the final as a fastest loser. A personal best for Kilkenny’s Cliodhna Manning was the highlight for the Irish in the 200m at Day 3 of […]
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