Six stadium records fell at the Ton le Gaoithe – Night of Sprints meet in Waterford on Tuesday night. They were: 100m women: Kelly Proper 11.54 +1.2 100m men: Jonathan Browning 10.59 +1.3 110mh: Ben Reynolds 13.62 +0.2 200m women: Kelly Proper 23.35 +1.1 200m men: Brian Gregan 21.26 +2.0 HJ men: Barry Pender 2.13m […]
Dunleer’s Thomas Cotter ran a personal best 3:43.31 for 1500m at the British Milers Club Grand Prix in Watford. That’s enough to put him sixth on the current year’s rankings, led by Ciarain O Lionard of Leevale with 3:41.04. In the 5000m, Brandon Hargreaves of DSD came agonisingly close to breaking 14 minutes for the […]
A large group of Irish athletes headed for Geneva where victory for Ferrybank’s Kelly Proper in the 200m was the highlight, with her time of 23.26 secs putting her top of the current Irish rankings. Amy Foster clocked a time of 23.62 secs in the preliminary rounds. In the men’s 200m heats, Marcus Lawler of […]
Thomas Barr again went under 50 seconds when winning the 400m hurdles at the IFAN Meet in Belgium. Barr’s time of 49.50 secs put him comfortably clear of Belgium’s Michael Bultheel who finished in 50.61 secs. Barr’s Irish record stands at 48.90 secs; he ran 48.99 earlier this season in Doha. Ireland’s Jason Harvey was […]
At the Glo Health National Indoors in Athlone, Dara Kerwick of Clonliffe won the 400m in 46. 53 secs – an improvement on the time of 46.80 secs he had run in the heats and comfortably inside the European Indoors qualification mark of 47.20 secs. Timmy Crowe of Leevale was bumped out of the race, […]
American visitor Joe Stilin won the men’s 5km at the 25th anniversary Armagh International Road Races in a time of 13 mins 58.34 secs. In a close fought race, British athlete Daniel Cliffe finished second in 13:59.47, with British Olympic triathlete Jonathan Brownlee third in 14:00.13. England’s Rachael Bamford won the women’s 3km from Teresa […]
The sensational news that Fionnuala Britton is to make her marathon debut at the European Championships has to overshadow all other discussion of a championships that could be the best ever from an Irish point of view. From Herald 8 August 2014. Britton’s main target for the games is the 10,000m on Tuesday evening after […]
Santry came alive last week with brilliant runs for Mark English, Thomas Barr and John Travers at the Morton Games – and more of the same can be expected at this weekend’s Glo Health Irish Track and Field Championships. The big star of last year’s championships was Ferrybank’s Kelly Proper, with a hat trick of […]
Ballymena’s Christine McMahon has qualified for the European Track and Field Championships after running 56.97 secs in the 400m hurdles at the Nivelles International Meeting in Belgium. Her time was just inside the Euro A standard of 57 seconds and put her second behind Anneri Ebersohn who ran 56.85 secs. Also competing was Kelly Proper […]
Thomas Barr in the 400m hurdles, Mark English 800m, Paul Robinson 1,500m, Brian Gregan 400m and Fionnuala Britton 5,000m are all expected to take big points at this weekend’s European Team Championships in Tallin, Estonia. Another who could make an impression is Australian-born Kevin Batt, who is selected for the 5000m having run a time […]
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