Round-Up: National 10km, K Club 10km, Intervarsities.

Fionnuala Britton successfully defended her national 10km title when she finished second in the  race, run in conjunction with the Spar Great Ireland Run in  Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

Britton finished second behind the 2012 winner Gemma Steel  in a personal best time of 33 mins 7 secs for the  hilly course. Second of the Irish was Leevale’s Lizzie Lee, fourth overall in  34 mins 18 secs, third was Newcastle’s Kerry O’Flaherty in 35 mins 27 secs and fourth Sarah Mulligan in 35:39; she finished just ahead of her DSD team mate Ava Hutchinson, racing again after a long lay-off.

In the men’s race, Mark Christie of  Mullingar Harriers won the men’s national title in 30 mins 10 secs, followed by Clonliffe pair Sergiu Ciobanu in 30:30 and Brandon Hargreaves. Rathfarnham  WSAF with eight finishers in the top fifty look to have won the men’s team category; not sure who finished second, but North Belfast Harriers are pretty confident that they took the bronze.

In the mile, a rueful Mark English dropped out; as he admitted afterwards, his legs gave up on him after he passed his favoured  800m distance.

A FEW MILES AWAY on the quiet roads around Straffan,  over 400 ran the annual K Club BHAA 10km – one of the most popular races on the BHAA calendar, with a huge spread of food after and lots of chat. Winners were Eoin Callaghan and  Charlotte Kearney.

STAR TURN AT THE Irish University Championships in Belfast came from Thomas Barr  of UL  who won the 400m hurdles in 50.44 secs – inside the 50.60 secs he needed for the World University Games next July.  Abroad, Phil Healy of Bandon ran 11.74 secs for 100m at a meet in Jacksonville Florida, which qualifies her for the European U23 Championships also in July.

ATHLETES from Project Africa made it a double at the Dental Solutions 5km in Derry on Friday evening. Vincent Kiprotich was a comfortable winner of the men’s race in 14 mins 46 secs, while Selina Kangogo, winner of the Omagh  Half Marathon, was first of the women in 17:32.

Saturday April 11

Spar Great Ireland Run/National 10km C’ships, Phoenix Park, Dublin.

National 10km – Men: 1 Mark Christie (Mullingar Hrs) 30.10, 2 Sergiu Ciobanu (Clonliffe) 30.20, 3 Brandon Hargreaves (Clonliffe) 30.31, 4 Thomas Fitzpatrick (Tallaght) 30.40, 5 Mark Hanrahan (Leevale) 30.51, 6 Colm Sheahan (Leevale) 31.51, 7 Barry Minnock (Rathfarnham WSAF, M35) 31.58, 8 Patrick Roche (Naas) 32.09, 9 Louis McCarthy (Rathfarnham WSAF) 32.30, 10 Eoghan McGinley (Rathfarnham WSAF) 32.41, 11 Damien Cauvet (LiffeyValley) 32.50, 12 Michael McMahon (Donore) 32.54, 13 Andrew Annett (Nth Belfast Hrs) 32.57, 14 Pauric McKinney (Inishowen, M45) 33.01, 15 Mick Traynor (Raheny Shamrock, M50) 33.05. Teams – 1 Rathfarnham WSAF, 2 ??? 2 North Belfast Harriers.

Women: 1 Fionnuala Britti=on (Kilcoole) 33.07, 2 Lizzie Lee (Leevale) 34.18, 3 Kerry O’Flaherty (Newcastle) 35.27, 4 Sarah Mulligan (DSD) 35.35, 5 Ava Hutchinson (DSD) 35.43, 6 Siobhan O’Doherty (Borrisokane) 36.03, 7 Michelle McGee (DSD) 37.30, 8 Regina Casey (GCH) 38.13, 9 Emma Donlon (MSB) 38.49, 10 Carmel Crowley (Bandon) 39.11.

Men’s Mile – 1 Jonny Hay (Aldershot) 4:11, 2 Wouter Ploeger (Ned) 4:12, 3 Marc Alcala 4:13, 4 Frank Baddick 4:14, 5 James Bowness 4:14, 6 Danny Mooney (Letterkeny) 4:16, 7 Andrew Coscoran (Star of the Sea) 4:19, 8 Ruairi Finnegan 4:20, 9 Shane Fitzsimons 4:21, 10 Elliott Dorey 4:21.

K Club BHAA 10km, Straffan, Co Kildare (424 finishers; www.bhaa.ie)

Men – 1 Eoin Callaghan (Teachers) 32.40, 2 Peter Mooney (NUIM, M35) 32.54, 3 Loughlin Campion (Teachers) 32.59, 4 Stephen Hunter (M35) 33.17, 5 Colm O’Connell (Rainmaker) 33.29, 6 Gavin Keogh ( B of NYMellon) 33.26. M35: 3 Paul O’Connell (Rockwood) 33.38. M40: 1 Ciaran O’Dwyer 34.35, 2Cyril Cuddy (Pfizer) 34.36, 3 Mark Hackett 34.55. M45: 1 James McCormack 34.51, 2 Peter Gray (B of I) 36.51, 3 Frank McDonald (Dublin Fire Brigade) 37.39. M50: 1 Phelim Glynn (Eircom) 34.49, 2 Bobby Mitchell 38.43, 3 Aidan O’Gara (Eircom) 38.54. M55: 1 Brendan Ryan (OSI) 38.40, 2 Paddy Parrott ( Murphy Gunn) 38.45, 3 Gerry Woods (OPW) 39.52. M60: 1 John Todd (Cadbury) 40.11, 2 Vincent O’Neill (Aer Lingus) 41.55, 3 Michael Carolan (Teachers) 43.13. M65: 1 Peter McDermott (DIT) 45.03, 2 Michael Ferry (Gardai) 46.49, 3 Matt Cooley (DG Motors) 48.17.M70: 1 Terry Mee (Dublin Taxis) 45.54. M75: Tadgh Twomey (Dublin Newspapers) 59.23, 2 Seam Lambe (Glanbia) 64.48, 3 Seamus Kilcullen (Enterprise Ire) 66.21. Teams – A: 1 Bank of Ireland 133, 2 Irish Life 199, 3 Pfizer 209. B: 1 Gardai 258, 2 Dublin Fire Brigade 314, 3 RTE 346. C: 1 Fingall CC 551, 2 ESB 629, 3 Revenue 638. D: 1 Motors A 647, 2 Manufacturing B 829, 3 Central Bank 873.

Women: 1 Charlotte Kearney (Mercer, W35) 37.19, 2 Sharon Grant (Teachers) 37.34, 3 Michelle Cox 38.29, 4 Paula Grant (Teachers, W40) 38.35, 5 Ilona McElroy (PWC) 39.18, 6 Suzanne Foot (Friends First, W40) 39.24. W35: 3 Alex Guffanti 40.45. W40: 3 Helen Barry 39.44. W45: 1 Sharon Tighe (SDCC) 43.46, 2 Elaine Duggan (Aer Lingus) 45.02, 3 Marie Norris (ChildCare) 47.04. W50: 1 Carol Dempsey 43.54, 2 Mary Watters (Watters Bus Hire) 44.09, 3 Martina R Smith 45.03. W55: 1 Sheelagh Jones (Teachers) 43.49, 2 Mary Kelly (Revenue) 51.10, 3 Kay Gilmartin 56.09. W60: 1 Mary Jennings (Teachers) 46.18, 2 Una Reilly (Revenue) 46.24. W65: 1 Evelyn McNelis (Teachers) 51.56, 2 June Comiskey (Irish Life) 52.57. Teams – 1 Teachers B 429, 2 Teachers A 813, 3 Revenue.