Thomas Barr of Ferrybank showed that he’s over his recent injury when he clocked a time of 49.39 secs for third in the 400m hurdles at the Athletics Geneva meet in Switzerland. This time is just outside the World Championships qualifying standard of 49.35 secs. Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan won the 400m A heat with a […]
Leevale multi-eventer Sam Healy won the race of the day at the GloHealth Junior/U23 Championships at the CIT when he beat Matthew Behan of Crusaders to take the junior 110m hurdles title. He finished in 14.11 secs; just one-hundredth of a second ahead of Behan. A lot more relaxed was the long jump which Healy […]
Two athletes made the European Championships A qualification mark at the second round of the national league, for which full results are only now available. In Athlone, Zoe Brown of Raheny Shamrock cleared 4.40m to win the pole vault – indeed that height would also have won her the men’s competition. Brown had improved her […]
Paul Robinson of St Coca’s ran a personal best of 3:54.77 for the mile at last night’s Bislett Games in Oslo. World indoor 1500m champion Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti won with race in 3:49.49. Robinson was running his second Diamond League in six days. In the “national” 1500m, Laura Crowe of Riocht finished second in […]
Maria McCambridge not only won the 5000m for her club Dundrum South Dublin at the European Clubs Championships in Amsterdam, she lapped the entire field. DSD’s other winner was Sarah Mulligan who led from gun to tape to win the 3000m in 9 mins 37 secs – a new best for her. There were also […]
Ben Reynolds has run World Championships A mark of 13.49 secs for the 110m hurdles at the Mary Peters Track Opening Invitational in Belfast easily beating Julian Ortiz Morena of Spain, who ran 14.02. Reynold’s time is just 0.19 off Peter Coghlan’s Irish record. In a Northern Ireland double, Lisburn’s Amy Foster won the women’s […]
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