Annadale’s Paul Pollock finished second at the Reading Half Marathon in a solid time of 64 mins 5 secs. Winner was Amos Kiplagat in 63 mins 10 secs. Kevin Seaward, running for Cardiff, was fifth in 65.07 and Gary Murray of St Malachy’s seventh in 65 mins 15 secs.
At the Super Value Mallow ’10’, Mark Fagan of Mullingar and Leevale’s Carol Finn were runaway winners. Fagan’s time of 48 mins 28 secs put him well over a minute clear of Leevale’s Mark Hanrahan in 49 mins 53 secs, while Fin won in 56 mins 29 secs; second of the women was Laoise Ni Thuama in 62 mins 50 secs.
Supervalu Mallow 10-Mile (1,067finishers, www.mallowac.ie).
Men: 1 Mark Fagan (Mullingar) 48:28, 2 Mark Hanrahan (Leevale) 49:53, 3 Alan O’Shea (Bantry) 51:13, 4 Trevor Power (Waterford) 52:48, 5 Colin Merritt (Carraig na bhFear, M40) 53:32, 6 John Meade (St Finbarr’s) 54:19. M40: 2 Sean Murphy (Trim) 56:51, 3 Finbarr O’Dwyer (Leevale) 57:276. M45: 1 Stephen Dermody (Graigue-Ballycallan) 58:53, 2 Fergus Wall (Bandon) 60:05, 3 John Kissane 60:08. M50: 1 Cathal O’Connell (St Finbarr’s) 57:33; 2 Mike Curley Cunningham (Moreabbey) 57:53, 3 Ken Devine (St Finbarr’s) 59:17. M55: 1 Neilus Aherne (Midleton) 64:48, 2 Denis Carroll (Eagle) 69:09, 3 Timothy Horgan 70:2. M60: 1 Pat Twomey (Eagle) 70:03, 2 Willie O’Riordan (St Brendan’s) 70:50, 3 Jerry Twohig (Duhallow) 78:04. M65: 1 Maurice Tobin (Grange-Fermoy) 70:29, 2 Ken Higgs (Carrigaline RR) 78:32. M70: 1 John Joe Cotter 82:24, 2 P O’Brien (North Cork) 88:19, 3 Tony Dunne (Grange-Fermoy) 90:13. M75: 1 Jim McNamara (Donore) 77:23, 2 John O’Leary (Leevale) 82:59. Jun: Matthew Murray 70:29.
Women: 1 Michelle Finn (Leevale) 56:29, 2 Laoise Ni Thuama 62:50, 3 Nollaig O’Neill (Leevale, W40) 63:28, 4 Anne Curley (Donore, W40) 64:01, 5 Carol Finn (Leevale) 64:13, 6 Angela McCann (Clonmel, W40) 64:22. W35: 1 Niamh Cronin (St Finbarr’s) 66:16, 2 Adele Walsh (St Senan’s) 66:23, 3 Lorraine Blackshields 67:49. W45: 1 Clotilde Fitzgibbon (Grange-Fermoy) 67:02, 2 Orla O’Rourke (Ballymore-Cobh) 67:30, 3 Fionnuala Desmond (Leevale) 69:59. W50: 1 Joan Ennis (Grange-Fermoy) 65:35, 2 Mary Sweeney (St Finbarr’s) 67:42, 3 Maria Hurley (Bantry) 74:10. W55: 1 Frances O’Connor (Eagle) 80:32, 2 Catherine Linehan 87:04, 3 Bernie Hopkins (Clonmel) 87:32. W60: Aileen O’Keeffe 94:07. W70: Maggie Dunne (Grange-Fermoy) 1:44:41. Jun: Lorraine Horgan 1:41:01.
Inishowen Half Marathon, Co Donegal (163 finishers; www.precisiontiming.net)
Men: 1 Gideon Kimosap ( Project Africa Athletics) 66.07, 2 Greg Roberts (City of Derry) 69.23, 3 Liam Feely (Nth Leitrim) 73.18. Women: 1 Claire McGuigan (Lifford) 87.38, 2 Christian McGinley (Inishowen) 88.39, 3 Margaret Kelly (Letterkenny, W35) 94.25.
Coral Leisure Wicklow Gaolbreak Half Marathon and 10km www.retagtiming.com
Half Marathon (464 finishers) – Men: Lahcen Aouisser (SRB Ferns) 76.24. Women: Patricia Gough 85.06. 10km (323 finishers) – Men: Ciaran McCarthy (Donore) 35.12. Women: Deirdre Byrne 40.17.
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