Maria McCambridge of DSD made a winning return to the roads when she finished first woman at this morning’s SSE Airtricity Dublin Half Marathon held in Donabate. McCambridge’s time of 82 mins 26 secs was not fast, but will be a considerable confidence booster before next month’s Dublin Marathon. Second was Raheny’s Tara Kennedy Monks. […]
Paul Pollock of Annadale Striders and Kilcoole’s Fionnuala McCormack will lead a team of five Irish marathon runnes at the World Athletics Championships in London next August 4-13. Also selected are Raheny’s Mick Clohisey, Sean Hehir of Rathfarnham and Leevale’s Claire McCarthy. Robert Heffernan of Togher will compete in the 50km walk along with Letterkenny’s […]
Mark Christie of Mullingar Harriers and Newcastle’s Kerry O’Flaherty were the winners at the National 10k, held in Dublin’s Phoenix Park in conjunction with the Great Ireland Run. In the men’s race, Christie was also the overall winner of the race in 29 mins 30 secs, beating British guest Graham Rush who finished in 29:41. […]
UCD’s Ciara Mageean was a clear winner of the 3000m at the opening day of the Irish Life Health National Indoor Championships in Abbotstown. Making the early pace in the race was Kilcoole’s Fionnuala McCormack, with Mageean and Michelle Finn of Leevale on her heels. Finn was next to push the pace, but when Mageean […]
Fionnuala McCormack finished a disappointed fourth at the Antrim International in Greenmount Campus after losing a shoe with a kilomotre to go of the 5.6km race. By the end of the opening lap, former African junior champion Caroline Kipkirui of Kenya and Ethiopians Gotytom Gebreslase and Birtukan Adamu along with McCormack had broken clear of […]
A brave effort by Fionnuala McCormack saw her finish fifth in the women’s race at this morning’s “European” Cross-Country Championships which was dominated by two Africans running for Turkey. In third place and the true European champion was Karolina Grovdal of Norway, who was followed in fourth by Ancuta Bobecel of Romania. The “Plastic Turks” […]
Shona Heaslip provided the story of the day when she won the women’s 8km race at the Irish Life Health National Cross-Country Championships on the recently-launched National Cross-Country course at Abbotstown. With Kilcoole’s Fionnuala McCormack running in Spain, Lizzie Lee of Leevale taking a break and Caroline Crowley of Crusaders injured, the women’s race was […]
Fionnuala McCormack of Kilcoole proved that she is still the woman to beat when she won the Autumn Open Cross-Country over the newly-launched National Cross-Country Course at Abbotstown. McCormack proved the class of the field in the women’s 6000m, beating Polish visitor Paulina Kaczynska by over half a minute. Showing a welcome return to form […]
UCD’s Mark English was just beaten by Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha over 500m yesterday at the Great North City Games in Newcastle – a warm-up event for the Great North Run that took place this morning. Rudisha’s time for the rarely-run distance was 57.69 secs – the fastest time ever. English’s time of 57.91 […]
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