A sprint double for Sean Lawlor of Kylemore College was just one of highlight from the second day of the Glo Health Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships in Santry. In both the 100m and the 200m, Lawlor beat his old rival Eoin Doherty of Drimnagh Castle. His winning time in the 100m was 10.89 […]
No question about who dominated the All Ireland Schools Combined Events Championships. With a brilliant score of 3909 points, Elizabeth Morland of Dunshaughlin was in a class of her own. Competing in the intermediate category, Morland improved on every one of her Leinster scores. She started with a time of 8.96 secs (918 pts) in […]
Elizabeth Morland of Dunshaughlin CS proved the star of the Leinster schools Combined Events Championships in Athlone IT. Competing at inter level, Morland finished top in all five disciplines, with her hurdles times at 9.01 secs for 908 points and her 1.66 high jump (806 points) particularly impressive. In the shot, a 11.62m effort won […]
Two great performances by young Irish athletes this weekend- in Belgium at the Flanders Cup in Leuven, Sara Treacy of Dunboyne won the women’s steeplechase in a new personal best time of 9:47.92; 9:45 was the A standard for the European Championships starting in Zurich on Tuesday. After a string of good results, Sara, who […]
Dundrum South Dublin and Leevale won the Glo Health National League titles in Tullamore. The DSD women led almost from the start and finished on 107 points to take their fourth consecutive title. Clonliffe finished second 0n 95 points, with Kildare County third. Among the stand-out performers for DSD were Sinead Denny who ran 54.86 […]
Tomas Fitzpatrick of Tallaght made a winning return to the Creane and Creane Enniscorthy 10km after a year interrupted by surgery on a troublesome leg. He proved that he is back to full fitness by pushing the pace from the start and winning in 29 mins 59 secs. In the battle for second place, Galway’s […]
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 […]
Elizabeth Morland of Dunshaughlin proved the star of the Aviva Leinster Schools Indoor Combined Events Championships in Athlone when she won the inter girls’ competition with an Irish record score of 3702. Morland earned a massive 927 points for her time of 8.92 in the hurdles, and also scored well in the high jump where […]
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