Dublin-based athlete Tomas Rauktys has been banned for two years after failing a dope test at the Irish National Track and Field Championships in Santry last July. Rauktys aged 28 and originally from Lithuania, has competed with the Clonliffe Harriers club for several years. He won the national discus title for the first time in […]
Sean Hehir of Rathfarnham WSAF defending champion Maria McCambridge made it a Dublin club double at today’s Airtricity Dublin Marathon incorporating the Irish Marathon Championships. For Hehir, a previous national half marathon champion, it was his first marathon victory and a second attempt at Dublin after finishing second Irish last year. His time of 2:18.19 […]
Rachel Smyth of St Coca’s was a clear winner of the women’s race at the Leinster Novice and Masters’ Cross-Country held in Dunboyne. Smyth’s time of 15 mins 59 secs but her well over a minute clear of the chasers, led by Grace O’Rourke of DSD and Ballyroan’s Grace McConnell. As they had done at […]
Elizabeth Morland of Dunshaughlin proved the star of the Aviva Leinster Schools Indoor Combined Events Championships in Athlone when she won the inter girls’ competition with an Irish record score of 3702. Morland earned a massive 927 points for her time of 8.92 in the hurdles, and also scored well in the high jump where […]
Double European champion Fionnuala Britton proved the class of the field when she stormed to a comfortable victory in the women’s three-mile race at the 30th Gerry Farnan Cross-Country in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Britton took the lead from the start and after half a mile had already stretched away from the rest of the field. […]
Fastest Parkrunners this week were Eoin Callaghan of Star of the Sea who ran 15 mins 45 secs in St Anne’s Park and Angela McEvoy, of Clonmel, who ran 18.24 in Malahide (Angela is a native of the area and makes frequent visits). Defibz 4 Kids 10km, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, Dublin (772 finishers; www.precisiontiming.net) Men: […]
Double European cross-country champion Fionnuala Britton will make her season’s debut at Sunday’s 30th anniversary Gerry Farnan Cross-Country in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Others rumoured to be running include Stephen Scullion of Clonliffe Harriers and Paul Pollock, who may well decide to help Annadale defend the team title they won last year. Unfortunately, Eddie McGinley, who […]
Raheny’s Aoife Talty was a clear winner of Clonliffe Women’s 50th anniversary Cross-Country in Santry. In the battle for second place, Fiona Clinton of DSD pulled away on the second laps to come home clear of Ailish Malone from host club Clonliffe and Deirdre Doyle of St Laurence O’Toole. For fifth place, Vanessa Sallier of […]
Kate Cronin from host club Raheny and Ian Guiden of Clonliffe were the winners of the Dublin Novice Cross-Country titles in St Anne’s Park today. Cronin broke away on the second of two laps in the women’s 3000m and finished comfortably clear of her team mate Chloe Doran. Meghan Ryan of DSD improved as the […]
Mark Christie of Mullingar Harriers was a comfortable winner of the Rathfarnham 5km, pushing the pace from the start and winning in 14 mins 37 seconds. Just three seconds adrift was Brian Maher of KCH. In the battle for third place, Conor Dooney of Raheny outsprinted Dunshaughlin’s Robbie Matthews and Tom Fitzpatrick of Tallaght, who […]
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