Paul Pollock finished 14th in the World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff. Despite the windy, wet conditions, Pollock clocked an excellent time of 62 mins 46 secs and was second European. Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor, the defending champion, won the race in 59:10, with Britain’s Mo Farah third in 59:59. Pollock ‘s time showed that he […]
Lizzie Lee of Leevale, running to make the qualifying time for the World Half Marathon, missed out on the course record at the Enniscorthy 10k by just eight seconds. Lee’s time of 33 minutes exactly was still a massive PB and saw her finish 5th overall. Lee was on target for Linda Byrne’s time of […]
Raheny’s Mick Clohisey and Mary Cullen of North Sligo were the winners of the AXA Raheny 5-Mile held in blustery conditions today. Both had clear wins with Clohisey’s time of 24 mins 5 secs putting him almost half a minute clear of Scott Rankin from Foyle Valley and Mary Cullen finishing in 26 mins 16 […]
Cillian O’Leary of Raheny and Sportsworld’s Aoife O’Leary were the winners of the Robbie Byrne Memorial 5km in Navan. Cillian finished over a minute ahead of Simon Ryan in 15 mins 54 secs, while Aoife just made it home ahead of Bohermeen’s Andrea McGuinness. The course was slightly long. Winners of the ERP Clonliffe Christmas […]
Fionnuala McCormack of Kilcoole finished a fighting fourth in the Spar European Cross-Country Championships in Hyeres. With Leevale’s Lizzie Lee running a wonderfully consistent race to finish 13th, Caroline Crowley, a brilliant 23rd, Ciara Durkan 43rd, and the backing of Michele Finn and Kerry O’Flaherty, the team ended up with 83 points. That put them […]
FREDDY KERON SITTUK of Raheny Shamrock won the Samsung Night run 10km in 31 mins 29 secs. Just a second behind was last year’s winner Peter Brandon Somba, while third was DSD’s international mountain runner Killian Mooney in 32 mins 3 secs, beating Lezan Kimutai, a regular visitor to Ireland for over a decade now. […]
Maria McCambridge of DSD proved the star of the 38th Ballycotton ’10’ when she smashed her own course record with a winning women’s time of 54 mins 20 secs. Not only that, but Maria now “owns” the three fastest women’s times in the race – she ran 54.48 in 2012 and 55.01 a year later. […]
Clonliffe’s Gary O’Hanlon was a comfortable winner of the SSE Airtricity Dublin Half Marathon this morning. His time of 69 mins 43 secs gave him a two -minute winnign margin over Waterford’s Trevor Power. First woman was Patrycja Wlodarczyk, who finished in 82 mins 54 secs and beat her Raheny clubmate Fiona Stack. Leading home […]
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