Ian Conroy Takes World M35 Mountain Running Title. Mageean runs 4:01.46

Raheny’s Ian Conroy has won the world  over 35 mountain running title in Susa, Italy.

Conroy ran a superb race  on the uphill only 11.5km course to finish third overall behind Cesar Costa of Portugal, overall winner and first M40, and the legendary Jonathan Wyatt of New Zealand. The many times former world champion wore bib No 1, and finished second over all and  second M40.  Conroy’s time of 69 mins 20 secs meant he finished 28 seconds behind the winner and just five seconds behind Wyatt. Not far behind was Rathfarnham’s Mark Ryan, a previous winner of the title, in 9th place overall and sixth M35, while his Rathfarnham team mate Brian Furey was 27th overall and 12th M35. It meant the Irish took an historic team gold, beating host nation Italy by a single point – Team Ireland, world M35 champions!

In  yesterday’s women’s race over 6.5km, Shileen O’Kane of Lagan Valley  finished 17th overall and sixth W35 in 53 mins 7 secs, with Jackie Carty Stamp of Kilmore seventh W45 in 53 mins 51 secs and Becky Quinn 5th W40 in 54 mins 14 secs.Quinn, Donna Mahon and Aisling  Kirwan took team silver by a single point behind Italy; a dominant GB team took the first three places.  The Irish W45 women also took team silver behind Italy, with no other teams entered. In the older age groups, also run off yesterday, Ger Maloney of St Paul’s finished fifth and Ballyroan’s Martin McDonald sixth in the M55 age group and with Eugene McCann of Newcastle took team bronze. A large Irish group had travelled.

CIARA MAGEEAN continued her excellent season by clocking a new personal best time of 4:01.46 for 1500m at the Paris Diamond League. Mageean’s time rockets her into second place on the Irish all-time list behind Sonia O’Sullivan, who ran 3:58.85 in Monaco 21 years ago.

JUST A DAY after winning the Tullamore Half Marathon Pauline Curley came home seventh overall and first woman at the Longford Marathon.  She even managed to break three hours,  finishing in 2 hrs 56 mins 13 secs. Fourth woman and first W60 was Waterford’s Mary Jennings. Winning the race was Clonliffe master Gary O’Hanlon in 2:28.49. Second, in 2:42.04, was Raheny’s Freddy Sittuk, who had won the Warriors’ Run in Sligo a day earlier.

Sat Aug 27-Sun Aug 28 

World Masters Mountain Running Championships, Susa, Italy.

Women all ages (6.5km, 772m climb) Irish: 17 Shileen O’Kane (Lagan Valley) 53 mins 7 secs (6th W45); 20 Jackie Carty Stamp (Kilmore) 53.51 (6th W45); 22 Becky Quinn 54.14 (5th W40); 58 Zoe Melling (Rathfarnham WSAF) 60.38 (15th W45); 62 Donna Mahon (Rathfarnham WSAF) 61.18 (9th W40);  70 Aisling Kirwan 62.23 (11th W40); 77 Hazel McLoughlin 64.15 (12th W40) ; 85 Vanessa Sallier (Rathfarnham WSAF) 66.13 (91th W45); Laura Flynn (Rathfarnham WSAF) 68.36 (21st W50). Teams – W40: 1 Great Britian 6, 2 Ireland 25, 3 Italy 26. W45: 1 Italy 6, 2 Ireland 28.

Men 65,70, 75 (6.5km, 772m climb)Irish: 45 Sean O’Neill 62.48 (34th M65), 74 Patsy McCreaner 76.57 (18th M70);

Men 55, 60 (6.5km, 772m climb) Irish: 5 Gerard Maloney 47.41 (5th M55), 8 Martin McDonald (Ballyroand Abbeyeleix and Dist) 49.07 (6th M55); 45 Gerry Brady (Clonliffe) 56.11 (22nd M60); 58 Eugene McCann 59.05 (31st M55); 80 Peter Bell 61.10 (38th M60); 85 Syl Ivers 66.11 (46th M55); 103 Wallie John Brown 81.10 (48th M60). Teams – M55: 1 Italy 11, Germany 23, 3 Ireland 42. M60: 1 Italy 7, 2 Germany 30, 3 Spain 65, 4 GB 78, 5 Ireland 100.

Men M35,M45,M50 (11km, 1,442m climb): 1 Cesar Costa (Portugal) 48.53 (1st M40); 2 Jonathan Wyatt (New Zealand)6916 (2nd M40); 3 Ian Cornoy (Raheny Shamrock) 69.20 (1st M35). Other Irish: 9 Mark Ryan (Rathfarnham WSAF) 72 59 (6th M35); 27 Brian Furey (Rathfarnham WSAF) 77.50 (12th M35); 87 Sean Foley 87.21 (17th M50); 94 Tom Blackburn (Mooreabbey Milers) 88.01 (22nd M50); 113 Michael Maughan 91.53 (32nd M40); 118 Bernard Fortune (SBR) 93.12 (27th M45); 145 Brian McGuckin 98.44 (35th M45). Teams – M35: 1 Ireland 19, 2 Italy 20, 3 Switzerland 30. M40: 1 Italy 8, 2 GB 30, 3 Germany 38. M50: 1 Italy 6, 2 GB 39, 3 Czech Rep 73.

Sunday August 28

Pat The Baker Longford Marathon, Half Marathon  and 5km(www.championchipireland.com)

Marathon (121 finishers) – Men: 1 Gary O’Hanlon (Clonliffe, M40) 2:28.49, 2 Freddy Sittuk (Raheny) 2:42.04, 3 Brian O’Kelly 2:46.44. Women: 1 Pauline Curley (Tullamore Hrs, W45) 2:56.13, 2 Christine Kinsella (W35) 3:27.01, 3 Lorraine McMahon (W40) 3:37.56.W60: Mary Jennings (Waterford) 3:43.08.

Half Marathon (384 starters) – Men: 1 Richard Gorman (Sligo AC, M40) 71.27, 2 Philip Harty (W Waterford, M35) 772.11, 3 Barry Shiel (M35) 73.39. Women: 1 Adele Walsh (St Senan’s, W40) 83.55, 2 Adrianna Melia 84.34, 3 Aine O’Reilly (W35) 85.28.

5km (108 finishers) – Tim Murphy 17.36, Susan O’Brien (W40) 20.16.
Oylegate Half Marathon and 10k, Co Wexford (www.premiertimingsystems.ie)

Half Marathon (102 finishers) – Men: 1 Myles Gibbons (SBR 75.27, 2 Pedro Calvo (SBR) 75.56, 3 Jim O’Malley (SBR) 81.37. M40: Paul Brown (Slaney Olympic) 85.31. M50: Mick Morrissey (Slaney Olympic) 88.46.

Women: 1 Deirdre Murphy (W Waterford) 96.38, 2 Helen Doyle (Kilmore) 99.38, 3 Emily O’Connor (Slaney Olympic) 1:41.23. W40: Margaret Cahill (Slaney Olympic) 1:55.56. W50: Louise McGrillen 1:55.13.

10km (85 finishers) – Men: 1 Kevin Murphy (Slaney Olympics) 371.01, 2 Robert Murphy 37.07, 3 Brendan Redford (DMP) 38.18. Women: 1 Catherine Murphy (Slaney Olympic) 43.53, 2 Ann Marie Nolan (Slaney Olympic) 45.27, 3 Sabrina Sweeney (Slaney Olympic) 46.36.

Thomastown AC South East 3 Sisters Women’s Mini Marathon 10km/5km, Co Kilkenny (www.myrunresults.com)

10km (34 entries)- 1 Danna Dunne 41.32, 2 Aoife O’Connor 46.18, 3 Jennifer Reddy 47.03.

5km (70 entries) – 1 Tom O’Keeffe 16.17, 2 Mary Molloy 21.18, 3 Peter Dolan 22.48, 4 Ruth O’Connor 23.32

Rossin Rovers 5k Heritage Run, Newgrange, Co Meath (167 entries, www.myrunreuslts.com

Men: 1 Brian McCluskey (NER) 15.53, 2 Loughlin Campion (Dunboyne) 16.46, 3 Ray Coogan 17.09. Women: Laura Mathews (NER) 19.53, 2 Josephine Killeen Kilmury Ibr) 21.41,3 Emer Monaghan 22.10.

Vodafone DublinCity Triathlon, Phoenix Park (www.tdleventservices.co.uk)

Super sprint (draft legal; 375 finishers) – Men: 1 Chris Mintern (Cork) 60.36, 2 Alaistair Rogers (Leeds) 60.58, 3 Lewis Byram (Leeds, M18) 61.24, 4 Cillian Tierney (M18) 61.40, 5 Aichlinn O’Reilly 63.25, 6 Trevor Woods (Cork TC, M45) 63.44. Women: 1 Susanna Murphy 67.34, 2 Carolyn Hayes 67.57, 3 Mary Hodgson (Leeds, W18) 68.51, 4 Amy Wolfe (W35) 70.28, 6 Jemma Spiers (W18) 73.33.

Standard (391 finishers) – Men: Tom McEnery (Piranha TC) 2:05.23, 2 Colm Turner 2:05.45, 3 Richard Doyle (Piranha, M40) 2:08.58, 4 Michael McCarron (M35) 2:09.47. M45: Gary Crossan 2:19.30 M50: Niall Kavanagh (Trilogy) 2:30.08. Women: 1 Michelle Brennan (Athy TC) 2:29.37, 2 Judy van den Ancker (Piranha) 2:32.33, 3 Niamh Richardson (Kilkneyy TC, W50) 2:33.18, 4 Hannah Shields (North West TC, W50) 2:33.26.