Thomas Barr in the 400m hurdles, Marcus Lawler 200m and Brian Gregan 400m all won their heats at the opening day of the European Clubs Team Championships in Vaasa Finland today. All five big names came through in the 400m hurdles (see below), which is shaping up to be the race of the competition. In […]
Thomas Barr of Ferrybank showed that he’s over his recent injury when he clocked a time of 49.39 secs for third in the 400m hurdles at the Athletics Geneva meet in Switzerland. This time is just outside the World Championships qualifying standard of 49.35 secs. Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan won the 400m A heat with a […]
In his first race for some time, UCD’s Mark English finished fourth in the 800m at the Boston Boost meet yesterday. His time of 1:46.06, though well off his personal best of 1:44.84 run in 2013, was am encouraging start to his season. Qualifying mark for the World Championships is 1:45.90. At Nimwegan in the […]
John Travers of Donore Harriers outsprinted Paul Robinson of St Coca’s for victory in a thrilling men’s 1500m at the Irish Life Health National Indoors in Abbotstown. Travers was timed at 3:50.44 to Robinson’s 3:50.55 with Raheny’s Cillian Kirwan coming from behind to finish third in 3:54.65. Olympic steeplechaser Kerry O’Flaherty of Newcastle was a […]
Sarah Buggy of St Abban’s won the British U23 triple jump title in Bedford today with a mighty leap of 13.25m – her first over 13 metres, an Irish U23 record and the second best ever by an Irish jumper. The Euro qualification mark is 13.95m. In Princeton, New Jersey, Siofra Cleirigh Buttner of DSD […]
Carlow’s Marcus Lawler celebrated his 21st birthday by winning the 200m with a new stadium record of 20.96 secs at the Glo Health National Indoor Championships in Athlone. Lawler had warmed up for the 200m by finishing a fighting fifth in the 60m won by Shercock’s Craig Lynch in 6.81; Lawler ran 6.92 secs. Dominating […]
Six stadium records fell at the Ton le Gaoithe – Night of Sprints meet in Waterford on Tuesday night. They were: 100m women: Kelly Proper 11.54 +1.2 100m men: Jonathan Browning 10.59 +1.3 110mh: Ben Reynolds 13.62 +0.2 200m women: Kelly Proper 23.35 +1.1 200m men: Brian Gregan 21.26 +2.0 HJ men: Barry Pender 2.13m […]
Kevin Mulcaire from Ennis finished just out of the medals in the men’s 5000m at the at the European Junior Track and Field Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Mulcaire finished a gutsy fourth in 14 mins 39.14 secs – less than four seconds off third place in a tactical race that only came alive in the […]
A strong team effort saw the Irish team finish sixth at the European Team Championships League 1 in Heraklion, Greece over the weekend – their best ever result. The team had made a great start to the day when Ben Reynolds finished second in the 100m hurdles behind Konstadinos Douvalidis of Greece. Mark English also […]
Ferrybank’s Thomas Barr set a brilliant new Irish 400m hurdles record of 48.90 secs at the Record EAP meet in Geneva, Switzerland. Barr won the race ahead of current European champion Rhys Williams of GB and now tops the European rankings. The time beats Barr’s newly minted Irish best of 49.61 sec set two weeks […]
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