Sprinter Steven Colvert of the Crusaders club in Dublin has failed a drugs test. Colvert tested positive for EPO, a drug that boosts endurance, on May 20. He gave both blood and urine samples with the positive result only showing up in the urine test. The 23-year-old DCU law student says he is “flabbergasted” by […]
Thomas Barr in the 400m hurdles, Mark English 800m, Paul Robinson 1,500m, Brian Gregan 400m and Fionnuala Britton 5,000m are all expected to take big points at this weekend’s European Team Championships in Tallin, Estonia. Another who could make an impression is Australian-born Kevin Batt, who is selected for the 5000m having run a time […]
The long journey to the 5th European Masters Mountain Running Championships in Ludwikowice Kłodzkie proved worthwhile for Rathfarnham’s Mark Ryan when he won the M35 race. On a 9.4km course with 570m of climb, Ryan came home a clear winner in 38 mins 4 secs. A distant second was Polish runner Piotr Kon. Ryan had […]
Simon Ryan of host club Raheny Shamrock was a clear winner of the annual Tommy Lynam Memorial Raheny Midsummer 4-mile held in St Anne’s Park. Ryan’s time of 19 mins 52 secs put him comfortably clear of his club mates Brian Leahy and Ian Conroy. Maria Dolan of Rathfarnham WSAF was seventh overall and first […]
Ferrybank’s Thomas Barr set a brilliant new Irish 400m hurdles record of 48.90 secs at the Record EAP meet in Geneva, Switzerland. Barr won the race ahead of current European champion Rhys Williams of GB and now tops the European rankings. The time beats Barr’s newly minted Irish best of 49.61 sec set two weeks […]
Dunboyne’s Rory Kavanagh was out his own at last night’s Braveheart 5km in Trim, winning in 15 mins 50 secs. Peter Mooney finished second and Sean Murphy third. First woman was Charlotte Kearney of Donadea Runners in 18 mins 365 secs, with Dunboyne veteran Emilia Dan second and Mullingar’s Sinead Roche third. Official race starter […]
Paul Robinson of St Coca’s ran a personal best of 3:54.77 for the mile at last night’s Bislett Games in Oslo. World indoor 1500m champion Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti won with race in 3:49.49. Robinson was running his second Diamond League in six days. In the “national” 1500m, Laura Crowe of Riocht finished second in […]
Freddy Keron Sittuk set off on a mission to break the course record at the 5th Strawberry Half Marathon in Enniscorthy today, but the weather decided otherwise . Although it wasn’t cold, gusting winds sapped the energy and though the second half of the course is less hilly, it proved a battle all the […]
Look for an overall result of the Flora Women’s Mini Marathon and you won’t find one – not on the TDL site which looked after the timing, nor on the WMM site itself. There you can only search for a result if you have a name or race number (finishers are referred to as “wonderful […]
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