Over 300 turned out for the ninth Tommy Lynam Midsummer 5km, held over a new course in St Anne’s Park Raheny – the biggest turn-out yet. With the race incorporating the Dublin Novice Road Championships, clubs were out in force with large groups from Tallaght, Civil Service/Phoenix Park, Donore Harriers, Sportsworld, Clonliffe Harriers and host […]
Defying the windy conditions, Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan ran 45.65 secs to win the 400m in Goteborg, Sweden. His time was close to the personal best 45.53 he ran earlier this week in Spain. In the women’s 1500m, Claire Tarplee of DSD knocked almost two seconds off her previous best when finishing third in 4:11.35 – […]
Sligo’s Zak Irwin posted the fastest time of the night for the 100m at the fourth Dublin Graded Meet of the season in Santry. Irwin’s time of 10.88 put him well clear of the chasers, led by Tallaght’s Keith Doherty. Catherine McManus of Celtic DCH won the women’s A race in 12.09. In the 3000m, […]
Laura Crowe of Riocht ran a personal best of 2:02.69 for 800m when finishing 7th in the Bislett Games in Oslo – just over a second outside the World Championships B standard of 2:01.50. *Brian Gregan, one of Ireland’s best hopes of victory at the European Team Championships in Santry on June 22/23 ran a […]
Mark Kennneally of Clonliffe Harriers continued his comeback after a long battle with injury when he won the 5000m in an untroubled 14.28.93 at the AI Games in sun-soaked Santry today. In the 400m, Sinead Denny of DSD, who currently tops the rankings for this distance, beat close rival Shauna Cannon clocking a time of […]
West Waterford’s David McCarthy won the Patrick Bell 5km in Bohermeen in a superb time of 14 min 26 . McCarthy was out on his own for much of the race, leaving Colin Costello from Star of the Sea and Dunshaughlin’s Robbie Matthews to battle it out for second place. In the end it was […]
Pauline Curley rolled back the years when she clocked a new course record time of 2:47.47 to finish first woman at the Cork City Marathon. Leading home the 1,200 finishers was Bartosz Mazerski of Lks Zantyr Sztum in Poland with a time of 2:28.29. Just 23 seconds behind was Gary O’Hanlon of Clonliffe Harriers running […]
Tommy Hughes, aged 52, made it a hat trick of Derry marathons after a mere 28 years when he won the Walled City Marathon. Hughes won the last marathon held in the city in 1984 and repated that victory at the Foyle Marathon a year later. His time of 2:30:32 put him almost five minutes […]
Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan won his first outdoors 400m of the year at the International Flanders Meet in Oordegen, Belgium on Saturday. His time of 45.82 put him comfortably clear of France’s Mame-Ibra Anne who ran 46.26 and Andrew Steele of Great Britain in 46.79. Winning the women’s 400m was Shauna Cannon in 54.91; even faster […]
Just after he crossed the line in the senior 200m at the Aviva All Ireland Schools in Tullamore, Marcus Lawler glanced left to check the time. When he saw that the clock had stopped at a mind-blowing 20.88 – later rounded down to 20.87- secs, he leaped into the air with delight. The time – […]
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