After many years in the minor placings, Celbridge’s Neil Fleming and Peter Egan of Salmon Leap teamed up to win the K2 class at today’s Great Outdoors Liffey Descent.
Despite the race taking place a month later than usual, conditions were perfect and Egan and Fleming’s time of just over 1 hour 49 minutes was not far off the course record. Earlier this summer, the pair had teamed up to win the British marathon title, and were using the race as a final tune-up before the World Championships in Singapore. “We had to get over Straffan Weir first and we did that. Only when we got over Palmerstown did we realise that we were on course for the record, but it was not to be. We had a few slip ups that cost us time,” the pair said after.
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Many times previous winner Gary Mawer of Salmon came home in just over two hours to win the men’s K1 class, while Aisling Smith, overall winner in the junior wildwater class, produced the best women’s result of the day. Over 700 took part in the race.
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