Shona Heaslip provided the story of the day when she won the women’s 8km race at the Irish Life Health National Cross-Country Championships on the recently-launched National Cross-Country course at Abbotstown. With Kilcoole’s Fionnuala McCormack running in Spain, Lizzie Lee of Leevale taking a break and Caroline Crowley of Crusaders injured, the women’s race was […]
Olympic steeplechasers Michelle Finn and Kerry O’Flaherty travelled to Berlin for Saturday’s ISTAF Meeting, where they finished seventh and ninth. Finn was first home of the pair in 9:47.51 with O’Flaherty timed a 10:10.57. Race winner was the gloriously named Celliphine Chepteek Chespol of Kenya, aged 18, who finished in 9:25.49. Raheny’s Freddy Sittuk, who […]
A small Irish team ran at the Luzern International in Switzerland where cold, windy chances scuppered any chances of fast times. In the 100m, Marcus Lawler ran a time of 10.60 – just off his season’s best of 10.59 secs. Lawelr also ran 21.58 secs for the 200m. The steeplechase proved a trial with Sara […]
Mark Hanrahan of Leevale led home a large Irish contingent at today’s Rotterdam Marathon. Hanrahan’s time of 2:19.52 saw him finishing 34th. He went through half way in 68 mins 28 secs and slowed down after the 30km mark. Finishing 39th in 2:21.47 was Eoin Callaghan of Star of the Sea. Tallaght’s Tomas Fitzpatrick was […]
Eoin Callaghan of Star of the Sea and Ciara Hickey of Bros Pearse were the winners of the Meath Spring Half Marathon in Bohermeen. Callaghan’s time of 68 mins 20 secs saw him finish over three minutes ahead of David Simpson, one of a large group from Newcastle and District in action. Hickey, who is […]
Ireland’s three Rio steeplechase qualifiers dominated the women’s 3000m at the Glo Health National Indoors in Athlone. Kerry O’Flaherty from Newcastle came home first in 9 mins 11.17 secs, followed by Dunboyne’s Sara Treacy in 9:19.96 and Michelle Finn of Leevale 9:21.93. O’Flaherty runs the women’s 1500m tomorrow in a bid for double gold. […]
Paddy Hamilton of Slieve Gullion won the Bewley’s Trim 10-Mile, with his time of 51 mins 32 seconds putting him six seconds clear of Star of the Sea’s Eoin Callaghan. Even closer was the women’s race where Mullingar’s Aine O’Reilly beat Caitriona Jennings of Rathfarnham and Charlotte Kearney of Donadea with only ten seconds separating […]
Fionnuala McCormack has finished a fighting third at the Antrim International Cross-Country in Greenmount. In chilly, slippery conditions, McCormack pushed the pace early, but was passed by a trio of Africans. Midway through the race, she pulled herself up to third place ,with Britain’s Kate Avery, who had beaten her in Edinburgh a week earlier, […]
From Herald Wednesday 13 January After her fighting second at the Great Edinburgh Cross, Fionnuala McCormack leads the Irish entry at Saturday’s Antrim International Cross Country at Greenmount, where she faces a re-match with Kate Avery the British athlete who beat her last weekend in Edinburgh. McCormack, who has won the race twice in the […]
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