Irish national marathon champion Laura Graham of Mourne Runners finished 14th woman at today’s Berlin Marathon today in 2 hrs 37 mins 5 secs. Although her time knocked a massive two and a half minutes off her personal best, it was an agonising five seconds off the Commonwealth Games consideration time. Just one place behind […]
Northern Irish athlete Stephen Scullion, who runs in Clonliffe colours, was a clear winner of today’s SSE Airtricity Frank Duffy 10-mile race in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Scullion’s time of 50 mins 37 secs saw him finish almost a minute and a half clear of Tallaght’s Tomas Fitzpatrick with Valdas Dopolskas of Balbriggan third. Marathon woman […]
Laura Graham, the national marathon champion, came home first overall at the Dambusters Half Marathon in Co Down yesterday. It means she joins that exclusive club of women who have won races outright, beating all the men as well as the women. On the tough, hilly course, which started from the Silent Valley in the […]
For some years now, the Dublin Marathon has incorporated the national championships – and it remains the race most self-respecting Irish distance athletes wish to win above all others. Yet it remains a race that athletes chasing qualification marks tend to avoid, preferring to run allegedly faster courses in London, Rotterdam and Berlin. Anywhere but […]
Irish national marathon champion Laura Graham of Mourne Runners has won the Belfast Marathon – a home victory for the first time in 19 years. Graham, supported enthusiastically all around the course, also repeated her feat of last year by running the London and then Belfast Marathons with only seven days rest in between. The […]
Rathfarnham’s Sean Hehir finished best of the Irish in a personal best time of 2 hrs 16 mins 18 secs – comfortably inside the qualifying mark for the World Championships later this year. Behind him, Kevin Seaward of St Malachy’s finished in 2:17:08, England-based Stephen Scullion on 2:17:59 and Raheny’s Mick Clohisey in 2:18:34. Hehir […]
Kilkenny’s Brian Maher won yesterday’s Streets of Portlaoise St Patrick’s Day 5km with his time of 15 mins 2 secs putting him seven seconds clear of William Maunsell from Clonmel. Mary Mulhare made it a home win in the women’s race, finishing in 17 mins 58 secs and beating Michelle Cox of Newbridge. AT TODAY’S […]
Mick Clohisey of Raheny Sharmock was a clear winner of the 40th Ballycotton 10, beating five times winner Sergiu Ciobanu of Clonliffe. Both men broke 50 minutes, as did Kevin Maunsell of Clonmel. Siobhan O’Doherty of Borrisokane won the women’s race in 58 mins 9 secs. Conditions were sunny but windy on the way […]
Ciara Mageean showed that she’s coming into shape at exactly the right time for the European Indoors when she won the 800m at the Leinster Indoors in a time of 2:03.73. Mageean completed her first 400m in 62 seconds. At the Big East in Staten Island, Siofra Cleirigh Buttner ran 2:06.63 to win the women’s […]
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 […]
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