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 […]
Raheny’s Kevin Dooney and Gladys Ganiel of North Belfast Harriers were the winners of the national marathon titles in a race run in conjunction with the American Rock ‘n’ Roll franchise. Dooney came home ahead of Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu, pulling away for victory in 66 mins 05 secs, with Tomas Fitzpatrick third and Sligo’s Emmett […]
John Coghlan of MSB continued his recent winning streak with victory in the SSE Airtricity Series Fingal 10km in Swords. Coghlan , who won the Liberties 4-Mile last Thursday, saw off the challenge of Raheny’s Freddy Sittuk with Peter Somba from Dunboyne third and Tallaght’s Tomas Fitzpatrick fourth and first M35. Gladys Ganiel of North […]
Ciara Mageean of UCD ran an unpressurised 2:06.18 to win the 800m at the Sligo City Sports last night. In the 500m, Mark English ran a time of 61.27 secs and now joins the Irish team for the European Team Championships in Vaaso, Finland at the weekend. Second was Trim’s Harry Purcell in 61.9 secs. […]
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 […]
Mick Clohisey, representing Irish champions Raheny Shamrock, finished 10th in the senior men’s race at the European Clubs Cross-Country Championships in Albufeira, Portugal today. Clohisey, cheered on by a large group of supporters, clocked a time of 30 mins 40 secs for the twisty, sandy 9.7km course, putting him 37 seconds behind the winner Yemaneberhan […]
On truly one of the foulest days possible for road running, Freddy Sittuk and Gladys Ganiel ran conservative races to finish first man and woman at the SSE Airtricity Frank Duffy ’10’ in the Phoenix Park. Of the 6,200 who had registered, fewer than 4,000 turned up and who could blame them? The organisers from […]
Kenyan Peter Somba, who runs with Dunboyne AC on his annual visit to Ireland, just pipped Rio-bound marathon man Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock for victory in today’s SSE Airtricity Irish Runner 5-Mile in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Somba crossed the line in 23 mins 58 secs, with Clohisey a second behind. Michael Harty of East […]
Gladys Ganiel of North Belfast Harriers won the Leiden Half Marathon in Belgium this morning. With selection for the Rio ’16 marathon squad taking place tomorrow, Ganiel had hoped to prove her fitness by running a fast time. Unfortunately, warm, muggy conditions and cobbles on quarter of the course meant times generally were slow and […]
Raheny’s Mick Clohisey finished tenth in this morning’s Seville Marathon with his time of 2:15. 11 moving him into second on the list for Rio ’16. It’s very tight – Kevin Seaward on 2:14.52 tops the list followed by Clohisey 2:15.11, Sergiu Ciobanu 2:15.15 and Paul Pollock 2:15.39. So just 47 secs separate the top […]
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