Siofra Cleirigh Buttner ran a time of 2:02.11 to win her quarter-final at the NCAA Division 1 East Qualifiers in Lexington, Kentucky on Friday May 26. It means she qualifies easily for the NCAA semi-finals and finals next month. Buttner, running for Villanova, was third at the bell in 59.65 secs but moved up a […]
Defending champion Kevin Mulcaire of St Flannan’s Ennis was a convincing winner of the boys’ senior 6.5km race at the Glo Health Irish Schools Cross Country Championships at Sligo Race Course. It was a fourth national cross-country title for Mulcaire, who is also the current Irish junior cross-country champion. He made his break with a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Highlights of the second day of the Woodie’s DIY National Indoors in Athlone includes a 16th indoor title for Kelly Proper of Ferrybank when she won the 200m in 23.56 – a new stadium record, improving on the 23.75 secs she had run a day earlier in the heats. In the long jump, she marginally […]
Fionnuala Britton ran a determined race to finish second at the Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross-Country in Holyrood Park. Running even better was Gemma Steel who was runner-up behind Sophie Duarte of France at the European Cross-Country and was beating Britton for only the second time. Britton, along with British junior Emilia Gorecka, pushed the pace […]
Ferrybank’s Kelly Proper was only 24 points off her own national record when winning the heptathlon at the Woodie’s DIY Combined Events Championships in Tullamore – her fourth outdoor title this season. Proper had started the day day with a commanding lead after her first day’s efforts: 14.31 in the 100m hurdles (935 points), 1.61 […]
Ferrybank’s Kelly Proper, who set a new Irish heptathlon record of 5,442 points in Italy last May is red-hot favourite to add the Irish women’s multi-events title to her collection at Tullamore this weekend. Proper is in top form having won the 100m, 200m and long jump at the recent national championships in Santry and […]
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