Joe Gough of West Waterford was a clear winner of the M60 800m at the Woodie’s DIY National Masters Indoors in Athlone today, later taking the 400m. Mary Barrett of Loughrea W55 and Celbridge’s Kieron Stoute M45 proved the stars of the shot put, both setting age group records. Eoin Moylan of Crusaders won the […]
A record turnout of over a thousand young athletes in 206 teams from 55 schools turned out for the West Leinster Schools’ Cross-Country Championships in the Phoenix Park. Biggest race of the day was the minor boys, with 225 taking part. They were led home by Cian May of Salesians Celbridge, who finished fourth at […]
Raheny’s Conor Dooney won the men’s senior 10,000m race at the Leinster Cross-Country Championships held at the Blandsford Estate near Ballyroan in Co Laois. The boys in green had five runners in the top six and with Simon Ryan second, Kevin Moriarty fourth, Brian Leahy fifth, backed up by Ian Conroy sixth, were comfortable winners […]
Paul Robinson of St Coca’s finished second in the men’s 3000m with a time of 7 mins 58.56 secs at the Hunter Track Classic in Glendale, Australia. Winner was Kevin Batt of Australia in 7:57.11. Finishing fourth in 8:05.73 was Leevale’s Mark Hanrahan. In the women’s 1500m, Laura Crowe of Riocht finished third in 4:11.49. […]
David Mulhare of Portlaoise CBS and Laura Tuite of Mercy Beaumont were the winners of the senior races at the DCU Invitational Cross-Country in St Clare’s. Closest finish of the day saw Hannah Byrne of Holy Faith Clontarf snatch victory from Alanna Cooley of Dominican College on the line in the girls’ inter race. Keeping […]
Three Irish middle distance athletes compete in Saturday’s Hunter Track Classic in Glendale, near Newcastle, a key event in the Australian summer season. Paul Robinson of St Coca’s goes in the 3000m after winning the 1500m last year in an impressive time of 3:42.54. For the past couple of years, Robinson, now aged 22, has […]
Elish Kelly of Raheny Shamrock, a newly minted W35 master, ran away with the women’s 3000m race at the Dublin Masters’ Cross-Country Championships which attracted record numbers to St Anne’s Park. After the start, Kelly quickly emerged from the pack and built up a strong lead with only her Raheny clubmate Annette Kealy attempting to […]
An astonishing 1,485 turned out for the four Dublin area Parkruns yesterday – a massive jump by about 25% on previous best figures. Add in Wesport and Macroom, and a total 1,622 ran a Parkrun in the Republic. About 15,000 have run at least one Irish Parkrun in the 13 months since Parkrun came to […]
Fionnuala Britton ran a determined race to finish second at the Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross-Country in Holyrood Park. Running even better was Gemma Steel who was runner-up behind Sophie Duarte of France at the European Cross-Country and was beating Britton for only the second time. Britton, along with British junior Emilia Gorecka, pushed the pace […]
As well as Fionnuala Britton, Michael Mulhare and David McCarthy will run for “Team Europe” in the Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross-Country, while Sarah Treacy has received a late call-up. The “Europeans” will take on teams from Britain and the USA. The American team is managed by Santry-born Mick Byrne. Britton’s big rival in the women’s […]
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