Long jumper Sam Healy from Leevale produced the best Irish result of the day at the European Junior Track and Field Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Healy jumped a personal best 7.38m to finished second in his group and fourth best overall. He goes in the final tomorrow. Ciara Neville of Emerald in Limerick progressed from […]
Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu continued his preparations for the SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon by winning the Galway Bay Half Marathon in a comfortable time of 67 mins 4 secs. SBR’s Tom Hogan was five minutes behind for second. Finishing eighth overall and first woman was Nicola Duncan of GCH, back home from her Scottish base for […]
Leevale multi-eventer Sam Healy won the race of the day at the GloHealth Junior/U23 Championships at the CIT when he beat Matthew Behan of Crusaders to take the junior 110m hurdles title. He finished in 14.11 secs; just one-hundredth of a second ahead of Behan. A lot more relaxed was the long jump which Healy […]
Siofra Cleirigh Buttner of Colaiste Iosagain set a small piece of history when she won the senior girls race at the Aviva All Ireland Schools Cross-Country in the Cork Institute of Technology for a record sixth time. Buttner started her schools career at the age of 12 when she won the first of two junior […]
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