Freddy Keron Sittuk of Raheny Shamrock won the SSE Airtricity Walled City Marathon in Derry by almost three minutes. Sittuk’s time was 2:22.34; finishing second was Peter Brandon Somba in 2:25.26. Local man Greg Roberts was a close third in 2:25.38, followed by Gideon Kipsang and then Lezan Kimutai who was first over 40. Finishing […]
Kevin Baker of Arup and Tara Malone, guest, were the winners of the ESB BHAA Beach 5km held at Sandymount strand on a perfect May evening. Big crowd from the banks – especially Societe Generale. Special well done to Orla Gormley of Aer Lingus who finished first W50 in her first race in a year […]
A 200m record of 21.18 secs from Marcus Lawler was just one of the highlights at yesterday’s Irish Universities Indoors Athletics Championships in Athlone. Lawler was breaking the record of 21.26 secs he sat last year. He also won the 60m in a personal best 6.83 secs. Other strong performances came from Thomas Barr of […]
Two of the best races on the Business Houses Athletic Association calendar took place on Tuesday – and both attracted record crowds. At the Dunboyne 5-Mile, a flood of late entries stretched the race organisers to their limit, but all ended well, with the usual huge spread of food, thoughtful prizes and plenty of time […]
David McCarthy from West Waterford ran a time of 3 mins 46 secs to win a tactical 1500m at the AAI Games held in Santry. From the start, McCarthy tucked in behind John Coghlan who made the early pace. Not too far behind this pair was Andrew Coscoran of Star of the Sea who will […]
It was a case of good news and and slightly less good news for John Travers of Donore at last night’s Dublin Graded Meet in Santry. Travers beat DSD’s Joe Sweeney, who had pushed the pace early, to win the 5000m in 13 mins 56.99 secs . It was Travers first sub-14 second run – […]
Derval O’Rourke is the latest withdrawal from the Irish team for the European Team Championships this weekend. She has a lingering chest infection. Replacing her in the 100m hurdles is young pretender Sarah Lavin of Emerald who ran 13.45 secs to break O’Rourke’s Irish junior record in Geneva earlier this month. Other withdrawals through illness […]
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