Niamh O’Boyle of Kildare club CNOC won all three races at the Irish Orienteering Championships held in Co Waterford.
O’Boyle started by winning the sprint event at Waterford IT. A day later, she won the middle distance title at Coumshingaun with her time of 33 mins 17 mins for the 3.84 course (with 250m of climb) putting her over a minute ahead of Fermanagh’s Ciara Largey.
Finally, she won the long distance title over a tough 9.4km course at Mahon Falls which she ran in 84 mins 50 secs. Just twenty seconds behind for second was Aine McCann of Lagan Valley.
Scotland-based Conor Short of CNOC won both the men’s middle distance and long distance titles. First up was the middle distance course of 4.9km, which Short won in 23 mins 6 secs; many times former champion Marcus Pinker of Cork was second in 34 mins 21 secs.
A day later, Short completed the gruelling 12.4km long distance course at Mahon Falls in 86 mins 11 secs. Pinker was over three minutes behind for second, with UCD’s Colm Moran third and Eoin McCullough of DUO/3ROC a close fourth.
On a good weekend for CNOC, Conal Whelan won the M18 long distance race.
Among the former champions winning in the masters’ age groups were Una May W45, Bill Edwards M45, Robin Bryson M50 and Olympic steeplechaser Liam O’Brien M60.
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