Donore’s John Travers led home over 1,500 finishers in the Patrick’s Festival 5km, held over a slightly changed route from St Stephen’s Green in Dublin. Travers was a comfortable winner in 14 mins 7 secs, with Clonliffe’s Colm Rooney 16 seconds adrift for second place. In the women’s race, Fionnuala Britton of Sli Cualann finished […]
Paul Robinson of St Coca’s finished third in the 1500m at the Sydney Track Classic in a time of 3:39.03 – inside the qualifying mark for the European Championships later this year in Zurich. In the women’s 800m, Laura Crowe of Riocht recorded a time of 2:03.16 when finished seventh, while in the triple jump, […]
Robert Heffernan launches his 2014 season in the 20km walk at Sunday’s European Athletics Race Walking Meeting in Lugano, Switzerland. This will be Heffernan’s first big outing since winning the world 50km title last summer in Moscow. Last month he was in New York for the Milrose Games, New York in February where he set […]
Sergiu Ciobanu of Clonliffe not only won the Ballycotton ’10’ for a fourth time today, he improved his personal best time for the course to an impressive 48 mins 58 seconds. Ciobanu, disappointed to finish third at last weekend’s National Cross-Country Championships, was on his own for much of the race, with Bantry’s Alan O’Shea, […]
Siofra Cleirigh Buttner of Colaiste Iosagain set a small piece of history when she won the senior girls race at the Aviva All Ireland Schools Cross-Country in the Cork Institute of Technology for a record sixth time. Buttner started her schools career at the age of 12 when she won the first of two junior […]
Men – 800m, h3, 4th, Mark English 1:47.60. 1500m, h3, 6th, David McCarthy 3:39.46. Women – 800m, h1, Rose Anne Galligan, 5th, 2:03.30 (SB). Ht 3, Ciara Everard 2:03.69 (SB). 1500m, h2, Claire Tarplee, 7th, 4:15.64.
Paul Pollock of Annadale Striders and Galway native Nicola Duncan who runs with the Portobello club in Edinburgh will represent Ireland at the World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 29. Pollock, who is based in London, qualified for the event after running a personal best 63 mins 52 secs at last Sunday’s […]
Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock and Clonliffe’s Sarah McCormack made it a Dublin double at the Woodie’s DIY National Cross-Country Championships at Dundalk IT. Clohisey and Gary Thornton of Galway City Harriers carved out an early lead in the men’s 12km race, with defending champion Sergiu Ciobanu of Clonliffe running on his own for third […]
Fionnuala Britton finished fifth overall and first woman at the Albertville 5-Mile around Duncrue Industrial Estate in Belfast today. From the start, Britton was part of a pack that was chasing early leader Brendan Teer of East Down. Teer finished a clear winner in 25 mins 47 secs, followed by Willowfield’s Paul Rowan in 26 […]
Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu will defend his men’s title at Sunday’s Woodie’s DIY National Cross-Country in Dundalk. Also tipped to make an impact are Andrew Connick of Ferrybank, winner of last weekend’s national inter title, the in-form Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock, Donore’s John Travers, Joe Sweeney of DSD, and Stephen Scullion who joins Ciobanu on […]
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