For a report on the weekend’s activities, see www.fastrunning.com. Summary of results below. Sunday October 8 Irish 3/4 Marathon Longwood, Co Kildare (1,166 finishers; www.redtagtiming.com) 1 Gary O’Hanlon (Clonliffe Hrs, M40) 1 hr 49 mins 16 secs, 2 Richard Gorman (Sligo AC, M40)) 1:50.33, 3 Michael McMahon (Raheny Shamrock) 1:52.04, 4 John Dunne (Raheny Shamrock, […]
Irish national marathon champion Laura Graham of Mourne Runners finished 14th woman at today’s Berlin Marathon today in 2 hrs 37 mins 5 secs. Although her time knocked a massive two and a half minutes off her personal best, it was an agonising five seconds off the Commonwealth Games consideration time. Just one place behind […]
Clonliffe’s Gary O’Hanlon and Pauline Curley of Tullamore Harriers were the winners of the Pat the Baker Longford Marathon today. Curley had won the Tullamore Half Marathon yesterday. Freddy Sittuk of Raheny was second of the men. Race founder Liam Fenelon also completed the course.Winners of the half marathon were James Doran and Adele Walsh. […]
Dereje Debele Tulu of Ethiopia and previous winner Helalia Johannes from Namibia were the winners of today’s SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon. Times were not fast although conditions were perfect – not too hot and no wind or rain. In a men’s race where Ethiopians made a clean sweep of the top three, Tulu took an […]
Gary O’Hanlon and Pauline Curley proved the class of the field at the new-look Irish 3/4 Marathon which had moved from its original location near Athlone to a faster, flatter course at Longwood, Co Meath. Clonliffe’s O’Hanlon, back in top form after a period of injury, finished almost 12 minutes clear of the field in […]
World masters mountain running champion Ian Conroy of Raheny Shamrock and DSD’s Fiona Clinton were the winners of the annual Simon 5-Mile run held in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Raheny’s Freddy Sittuk won the 10k at the Galway Bay Marathon, Half Marathon and 10km, leading home 1,340 finishers. His time was 31 mins 18 secs; Conor […]
Tomas Fitzpatrick of the host club won the Tallaght 5k for a second year; Fitzpatrick had run the Rotterdam Marathon two weeks ago. A close second was Raheny’s Mark Kirwan, with Martin Hoare of Celbridge AC third. First woman was Claire Sullivan of Rathfarnham WSAF who also won the Dublin novice road title. First of […]
Rathfarnham’s Sean Hehir finished best of the Irish at today’s Virgin London Marathon. Hehir ran a time of 2:17.30 – five seconds faster than the personal best he ran in the Dublin Marathon of 2012. Hehir had hoped to improve on the time he ran in Berlin last September. “Went for it. No regrets. Not […]
A 200m record for Marcus Lawler representing IT Carlow was just one highlight of a packed day of athletics at the Irish Universities Indoors in Athlone. Lawler won the 200m in 21.03 secs, with 400m hurdler Thomas Barr of UL second in 21.47 secs. Other records fell in the 60m hrudles won by Antonia Garcia […]
Caitriona Jennings of Rathfarnham WSAF finished fourth at the IAU World 50km Championships in Doha, Qatar with a time of 3 hrs 31 mins 49 secs. USA’s Camille Herron won the race in 3:20.58. Jennings, who ran in the Olympic marathon in London 2012, only returned to athletics earlier this year after a frustrating series […]
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