After their eye -catching runs over 800m at the London Anniversary Games, both Rose Anne Galligan and Mark English will run the 400m at this weekend’s Woodie’s DIY National Track and Field Championships. Galligan of Newbridge AC broke Sonia O’Sullivan’s record of 2:00.69 when she ran 2:00.58 for sixth place and a World Championships B […]
Sarah Mulligan of DSD has become the first Irish woman to win the prestigious Snowdon International Mountain Race in Llanberis, north Wales. This is the best result by an Irish mountain runner since John Lenihan won the world title; indeed Lenihan is the only previous Irish winner at Snowdon, although Robin Bryson does hold the […]
Louise Shanahan has won the 800m title at the European Youth Olympic Festival in the Netherlands in a huge PB of 2.08.75. Ireland took a second gold in the 4 x100m, with the team anchored by Roseanne McGuckian who took individual bronze in the 200m. Ireland had already collected two silver medals in Utrecht – […]
UCD’s Mark English proved the star of the Morton Games in Santry when he won the international 800m in a personal best 1.45.32, just outside the World Championships A standard of 1.45.30. Paul Robinson of St Coca’s finished joint 4th in a new PB of 1.45.86, also inside the World Championships B standard. Winning the […]
Raheny’s Fiona Roche produced a great time of 22 mins 17 secs run to finish eighth overall and first woman at the Dunleer 4-Mile. Coming home first was Mark Hoey of Star of the Sea in 19 mins 55 secs. A notable finisher was many times Irish international Rosie Lambe, who was fourth woman and […]
It was a case of good news and and slightly less good news for John Travers of Donore at last night’s Dublin Graded Meet in Santry. Travers beat DSD’s Joe Sweeney, who had pushed the pace early, to win the 5000m in 13 mins 56.99 secs . It was Travers first sub-14 second run – […]
Laura Reynolds of DCU finished 6th in the 20km wWalk at the World University Games in Kazan, Russian this morning in a season’s best 1 hr 33 mins 31 secs. The top three finishers were Russians. Niamh Whelan of UL finished fourth in her 200m semi-final in a season’s best time of 23.68 – just .04 […]
Colin Costello of of Star of the Sea and Donore’s Sorcha Nic Dhomhnaill were the winners at the South O’Hanlon 5km in Senechalstown. In the women’s over 45 class sisters Imelda Clarke, Mary Hanley and Bridget Clarkee finish first , second and third – and won the overall women’s team prize. In the W50 class, […]
Carnage in the sprints at the Cork City Sports with numerous false starts. In the women’s 100m, first Kelly Proper and then Ailis McSweeney were disqualified. Jessica Young of the USA stayed calm and won in 11.43. Catherine McManus of Celtic DCH won the B race in 11.82 ( -0.2 wind reading). Among the DQs […]
Teams of Irish athletics are travelling far and wide this summer. First up are the World University Games, the World Youth Championships, the European U-23 Championships and the European Youth Festival. These are followed by the European Junior T-F, Rieti, July 18-21 and the World Championships in Moscow, August 10-18. July 6-17 World University Games, […]
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