Maria McCambridge and Paul Pollock have been selected for the marathon at World Championships in Moscow next August. The pair are the current Irish marathon champions after coming home best of the Irish at last October’s Dublin Marathon. McCambridge’s winning time of 2:35:28 last October was a personal best by one second, improving on the […]
Cillian O’Leary was a comfortable winner of the Government Services BHAA 5-Mile in Dunboyne, leading home a huge entry of close to 500. This race’s reputation had clearly gone before it! First women was Fiona Reid. Next Dublin BHAA race is the Trinity Track in College Park on Wednesday June 12 – a rare opportunity […]
Freddie Keron Sittuk the Kenyans who has been staying in Ireland for the past month, was first home at the Strawberry Half Marathon in Enniscorthy. Sittuk, who finished fourth in the Belfast Marathon and has since spent time in both Dublin and Donegal, was wearing the colours of Sliabh Bhui Rovers from nearby Ferns. On […]
A team from Raheny Shamrock lead from the start of the Wicklow Way Relay from Kilmashogue to Shillelagh and ended up comfortable winners in 7 hours 6 minutes. In second place was Rathfarnham WSAF, with a Munster team of adventure races, including Tim O’Donoghue who ran a record 76 minutes for the 21km leg, finishing […]
Although summer is slow in arriving, the track and field season, is already well underway , with the Dublin Graded League attracting record numbers to its first two meets, athletes travelling abroad in search of times and the first National League round taking place on Sunday. Defending women’s champions Dundrum South Dublinhave the luxury of […]
Colin Costello of Star of the Sea won a high-quality Bob Heffernan 5km in Enfield. His time of 15 mins 5 secs put him 11 seconds clear of second placed Vinny Costello from Mullingar, First woman was Mary Hanley of the host club Na Fianna. * Very glad to report that contrary to previous info, […]
Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu was the class of the field at the 29th Terenure 5-Mile, winning by some margin from his Clonliffe team mate Gary O’Hanlon in a time of 24 mins 37 secs. In third place was Thomas Hayes from Kilkenny while after him came a group led by Pat McCartan of West Limerick who […]
Marcus Lawler of CBS Carlow left the Aviva Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships at Santry with a nice haul of three wins – and three records. His first came in the senior 100m, which he won in a spectacular time of 10.38 – the fastest 100m run on Irish soil in some years and an […]
UCD’s Ciara Everard won the 1500m at the second Dublin Graded Track and Field meet of the season in Santry in a new personal best time of 4 mins 25 secs – 11 seconds off her previous best. She runs her first 800m of the season in Sardinia on June 1. In the women’s hammer, […]
Eoin Taggart of Rathcoole won the senior boys’ steeplechase at the opening day of the Aviva Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships in Santry. In the inter 100m hurdles, Matthew Behan, CUS, beat Joe Halwax, CBC Monkstown, for the title, despite suffering from a “dead” leg. Mollie Scott of Colaiste Conglais won both the junior […]
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