In his first race for some time, UCD’s Mark English finished fourth in the 800m at the Boston Boost meet yesterday. His time of 1:46.06, though well off his personal best of 1:44.84 run in 2013, was am encouraging start to his season. Qualifying mark for the World Championships is 1:45.90. At Nimwegan in the […]
Over thirty teams and two individual runners have already signed up for Parnell AC’s The Relay, to be held on Saturday June 10 (7am) The race, for teams of five, begins in Avondale Forest Park, Rathdrum, crosses over through the Clara Vale and continues on the Avonmore Way. From there, the route follows the Wicklow […]
Shane Aston of Trim AC comfortable retained his national decathlon title at the Irish Life Health Combined Events Championships which concluded to day at Santry. No records were broken thanks alertly to the unrelenting rain yesterday, which meant the high jump was called for the juvenile competition. Aston still accumulated a healthy total of 6540 […]
Siofra Cleirigh Buttner ran a time of 2:02.11 to win her quarter-final at the NCAA Division 1 East Qualifiers in Lexington, Kentucky on Friday May 26. It means she qualifies easily for the NCAA semi-finals and finals next month. Buttner, running for Villanova, was third at the bell in 59.65 secs but moved up a […]
Marathon runner Sinéad Diver from Erris near Belmullet, in Co Mayo has been selected to represent Australia at the IAAF World Championships, in London next August (4-13). Diver’s run of 2:31.37 run for tenth place at Nagoya, Japan last March put her in contention for a place. Her finish time knocked almost three minutes off […]
Andrew Connick of Ferrybank was the winner of the 10,000m, which opened the third Dublin Graded Meet held at Irishtown in beautiful early summer conditions. Connick clocked a time of 31 mins 53 secs to beat St LOT’s Brian Kirwan in 32 mins 20.1 secs. Dylan Keegan of Templeogue AC, who had won the 5000m […]
Emma Mitchell of QUB ran a new Northern Irish record time of 32 mins 51.78 secs to finish seventh in the women’s elite race at the Highgate Night of 10,000m PBs in London. That time is comfortably inside the qualifying mark of 33 mins 6 secs for next year’s Commonwealth Games, as well as the […]
A national junior high jump record for Sommer Lecky of Strabane Academy proved the highlight at the Ulster Schools Track and Field championship at the Antrim Forum. Lecky soared over a personal best height of 1.85m for a clear victory. Earlier this year, she won the national indoor title with a leap of 1.81m and […]
On a day of gusting winds at the Cork IT Track, Ciara Neville of Castletroy College was a clear winner of the senior 100m at the Irish Life Health Munster Schools Championships. Neville’s time of 11. 82 secs came close to Phil Healy’s 2013 record of 11.64secs and is inside the European U20 standard of […]
Throwers again proved the record breakers at the second day of the Irish Life Health Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships in Santry. In the senior shot, Niamh Fogarty from St Joseph’s Rochfortbridge produced a throw of 13.10m that added 13 centimetres to the old record of 12.97m set in 2006. In second place was […]
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