Ireland’s latest world champion is Thomas Barr who won the 400m hurdles at the World Student Games in Gwangju, Korea. With a time almost a second faster than anyone in the field, Barr was always favourite to win the title but it proved tougher than expected. Until the final hurdle, Algeria’s Abdelma Lahoulou was pushing […]
A personal best time of 4:12.79 for Newcastle’s Kerry O’Flaherty in the women’s 1500m proved the highlight of the Le Cheile IMC International held in Leixlip. O’Flaherty produced a storming finish for second place behind New Zealand visitor Angela Petty who won the race in 4:08.54. A closely fought men’s 1500m was won by English […]
Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu – or Sergiu Eireannach in the race results! – ran 31 mins 12 secs in a 10km in Casablanca. Some experience, as he says on his Facebook. “This is Morocco they say. Ran 31:12min for the Casablanca 10km; very hot and humid, but this wasn’t the worst. The race started while 30-40 […]
Donore’s John Travers managed to stay on his feet long enough to win the 800m at Wednesday’s Graded Meet in Tallaght. Have a look at his Facebook to see what happened! John Coghlan, who is targeting the steeplechase this season, ran away with the 3000m in 8:31.1. Abroad, Mary Cullen clocked a time of 15:29.99 […]
Tomas Fitzpatrick made it a home victory for a second year at the Tallaght 5km, when he beat a quality field including Clonliffe’s Mark Kenneally and Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock. His winning time was 14 mins 37 secs. Finishing 11th overall and first woman in 16 mins 26 secs was Maria McCambridge who, like […]
A record entry, perfect weather and cracking races upfront – the 31st Raheny 5 will prove hard to beat in years to come. Upfront, Leevale’s Lizzie Lee not only won the women’s race in 26 mins 34 secs, but knocked 59 seconds off her previous best for the distance. Anne Marie McGlynn of Letterkenny was […]
John Travers of Donore and UCD’s Ciara Mageean were the winners of the New Year’s Day Tom Brennan Memorial 5km, held in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Despite the squally conditions, Travers finished in a respectable time of 14 mins 43 secs, with previous winner John Coghlan of MSB also breaking 15 minutes. In third place was […]
Sarah McCormack of Clonliffe Harriers finished best of the Irish at the 30th World Mountain Running Championships in Italy when she finished 15th in the women’s uphill only 8.4km race in a time of 51 mins 13 secs. Less than a minute behind was Sarah Mulligan of DSD in 20th place with a time of […]
Donore’s John Travers led home over 1,500 finishers in the Patrick’s Festival 5km, held over a slightly changed route from St Stephen’s Green in Dublin. Travers was a comfortable winner in 14 mins 7 secs, with Clonliffe’s Colm Rooney 16 seconds adrift for second place. In the women’s race, Fionnuala Britton of Sli Cualann finished […]
Raheny’s Conor Dooney won the men’s senior 10,000m race at the Leinster Cross-Country Championships held at the Blandsford Estate near Ballyroan in Co Laois. The boys in green had five runners in the top six and with Simon Ryan second, Kevin Moriarty fourth, Brian Leahy fifth, backed up by Ian Conroy sixth, were comfortable winners […]
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