Lagan Valley’s Katie Kirk proved the star of the night at the AIT International Grand Prix in Athlone last night. She won the women’s 800m in 2:03.58 – two seconds off her previous best and inside qualification for the Commonwealth Game in Glasgow. In the long jump, Kelly Proper of Ferrybank improved her her ow […]
Mark English of UCD leads a team of five selected for the World Indoor Champions starting in Sopot, Poland on March 7. English, who broke the Irish indoor record earlier this season, goes in the 800m. West Waterford’s David McCarthy is selected for both 1500m and 3000m. After their runs on Tuesday, Ciara Everard of […]
James Fallon of Calasanctius College in Oranmore won the boys’ senior race at the Aviva Connacht Schools Cross-Country Championships in Sligo yesterday. Fallon held off the challenge of David Harper from Rice College in Westport, with Sean Flynn, also Rice College, in third place. International mountain runner Ellen Moran from Sacred Heart Westport won the […]
A Meath-born athlete consolidated his unique record when he completed the English National Cross-Country Championships last Saturday for a 45th consecutive year. Martin McGann, aged 67, was born in Kiltale, Co Meath. He moved to Manchester in 1969 and joined East Cheshire Harriers, the local club. His best result in the “Nationals” came in 1978, […]
UCD’s Ciara Everard has finished fourth in the 800m at the Prague Indoor Grand Prix in a season’s best 2 mins 4.02 secs after going through the opening 400m in 59 seconds. Finishing a close seventh was Roseanne Galligan of Newbrige AC in 4:04.12. The race was won by Britain’s Jenny Meadows in 2:01.67. With […]
Michelle McGee of Brothers Pearse dominated the women’s race at the Woodie’s DIY National Intermediate Cross-Country Championships in Dunboyne. Although the wind – strong enough to see three tents blown away – had died down, the underfoot at the Cow Park was challenging from the start. McGee, who won the national novice title last December, […]
With Mary Cullen opting not to defend her title at the Armagh International Road Races, English visitors dominated the women’s 3km race. Loughborough’s Laura Whittle , a former European U-23 5000m champion, was first home in 9:25.73, with Elle Vernon of Stockport a close second and Rachel Bamford from Leeds AC third. In fourth place […]
Highlights of the second day of the Woodie’s DIY National Indoors in Athlone includes a 16th indoor title for Kelly Proper of Ferrybank when she won the 200m in 23.56 – a new stadium record, improving on the 23.75 secs she had run a day earlier in the heats. In the long jump, she marginally […]
World 50km champion Robert Heffernan from Togher finished second in the men’s mile walk at the Millrose Games in New York with a time of 5 mins 39.75 secs. Winner was Andreas Gustafsson from Sweden in 5:34.45. Heffernan’s record of 15 indoors titles was equalled by Ferrybank’s Kelly Proper at the opening day of the […]
World champion race walker Robert Heffernan leads a list of 11 athletes who are to receive cash grants under the Irish Sports Council carding scheme. Heffernan gets the top grant of €40,000, along with Paralympians Jason Smyth, Michael McKillop and Orla Barry. Fionnuala Britton, who finished fourth at the European Cross-Country having won the title […]
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