Mark English of UCD finished second in the 600m at the Flame Games in Amsterdam, with his time of 1 min 15.71 secs breaking his own Irish record for this rarely run distance. Kenya’s Alfred Kipketer won the race in 1:15.60. On a chilly evening for athletics, Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan finished fourth in the 400m […]
Thomas Barr ended his season with a third place in the 400m hurdles in Zurich last night. Barr’s time of 49.79 secs put him less than a second behind local favourite Karien Hussein, who won the race in 49.16 secs. Second was Rasmus Mags of Estonia in 49.35. Mark English runs the 600m and Brian […]
Fionnuala Britton of Kilcoole clocked a time of 32 mins 56 secs to finish seventh of the elite women at the Great Manchester 10km. Behind her Letterkenny’s Ann Marie McGlynn was 16th in 34 mins 52 secs. Kenyan athlete Betsy Saine was the winner in 31 mins 49 secs, with England’s Gemma Steel a close […]
John Coghlan of host club Metro St Brigid’s and Kilcoole’s Fionnuala Britton were the winners of the St Patrick’s Festival 5km. Coghlan and Clonliffe’s Mark Kenneally pushed the pace from the start of the race, with Coghlan, taking the lead at about 4km and coming home to win in 14 mins 32 secs. It was […]
Fionnuala Britton finished second at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country with her time of 21 mins 33 secs putting her just six seconds behind 20-year-old Briton Emilia Gorecka. Spain’s Trihas Gebre was third in 21:50 with recently crowned European cross-country champion, Gemma Steele of Great Britain, eleventh. Britton had pushed the pace from the start […]
For a second year, Fionnula Britton and Paul Pollock were the winners at Glo Heath Intercounty Cross-Country Championships held on a perfect day for cross-country running at Dundalk IT. It was a tale of two races: while Britton coasted to an easy victory, Pollock only retained his title after an absorbing race that ended in […]
Paul Robinson finished fourth in a dramatic 1500m while the Irish men’s 4 x 400m team set a new national record at the final session of the Europeans Championships in Zurich. In the 1500m Ciaran O Lionaird was tripped from behind on the second last lap. There were two more fallers on the last lap. […]
The sensational news that Fionnuala Britton is to make her marathon debut at the European Championships has to overshadow all other discussion of a championships that could be the best ever from an Irish point of view. From Herald 8 August 2014. Britton’s main target for the games is the 10,000m on Tuesday evening after […]
Fionnualla Britton of Kilcoole is to make her marathon debut at the forthcoming European Athletics Championships starting in Zurich Switzerland on Tuesday August 12. Britton will compete in the 10,000m on the opening night of competition and then line out in the women’s marathon on Saturday August 16. With Rio 2016 just two years away, […]
Santry came alive last week with brilliant runs for Mark English, Thomas Barr and John Travers at the Morton Games – and more of the same can be expected at this weekend’s Glo Health Irish Track and Field Championships. The big star of last year’s championships was Ferrybank’s Kelly Proper, with a hat trick of […]
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