Freddy Keron Sittuk, back in his Raheny stronghold for the past fortnight, had a comfortable victory in the Barrington Hospital Great Limerick Marathon today. In the early stages of the race, Sittuk and last year’s winner Martin Doody from Limerick AC ran together with both given a time of 34 mins 55 for 10km. By […]
MSB’s John Coghlan held off the host club’s Ian Guiden to win the 126th Clonliffe “2”, the oldest road race in Ireland and possibly the world. Coghlan tucked in behind Guiden for much of the two-mile before leading the lead and coming home in 9 mins 15 secs with Guiden second in 9:23 and Donore’s […]
Pentathlete Mary Barrett from Loughrea has won three gold medals at the World Masters Games in Auckland, New Zealand. Barrett won the W55 80m hurdles with a time of 15.13 secs, the high jump with 1.26 and the shot with 10.53m. She also finished fourth in the discus with 24.19m and the javelin with 21.29m, […]
Four times Paralympian John Fulham was last night elected unopposed as the next president of Paralympics Ireland succeeding Jimmy Gradwell who had served two terms spanning eight years. Fulham, a wheelchair racer, competed successfully for Ireland at four Paralympic Games from Barcelona 1992 in the 100m and 200m, also taking European titles over these distances. […]
Mark Smyth and Michael Farrelly made it a sprint double for St Fintan’s Sutton at the opening day of the North Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships held in freezing cold conditions at Santry today. Smyth won the senior boys’ title in some style, beating Luke Redmond from Ashbourne College, who later had an impressive […]
Paul Pollock of Annadale Striders and Kilcoole’s Fionnuala McCormack will lead a team of five Irish marathon runnes at the World Athletics Championships in London next August 4-13. Also selected are Raheny’s Mick Clohisey, Sean Hehir of Rathfarnham and Leevale’s Claire McCarthy. Robert Heffernan of Togher will compete in the 50km walk along with Letterkenny’s […]
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