Race favourite Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock lived up to his pre-race billing when he won the Fields of Athenry 10km for a fifth consecutive year earlier today. That equals Gary Thornton’s record of five wins in the race. Clohisey was out on his own for much of the race and finished in an untroubled […]
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 […]
Raheny’s Freddy Sittuk looked a happy man as he crossed the line at the Bay 10k in Dun Laoghaire, leading home over a thousand finishers in a time of 31 mins 55 secs – not a bad time for an athlete who had won the Cookstown Half Marathon a day earlier. A minute behind for […]
Hurdler Christine McMahon ran a big personal best of 56.06 secs to finish second in the 400m hurdles in Heusden last night. Her time – agonisingly – was inside the Olympic qualifying standard of 56.20 secs, but too late for the IAAF selection deadline. Also over the past week, Mark English ran a time of […]
Brian Gregan in the men’s 400m and Christine McMahon in the 400m hurdles both won their events at the CABW International Meet in Nivelles, Belgium today. In the men’s 400m, Gregan won in 47.52 secs, with Harry Purcell of Trim second in a season’s best 47.74 secs, Fourth was Brian Murphy in 48.72 secs. All […]
Rio-bound marathon woman Lizzie Lee of Leevale ran a time of 33 mins 28 mins to finish 12th in the 45th edition of the New York Women’s Mini 10k, the first women’s only road race in the world and the inspiration for the Dublin Mini 10k. In its first year, the New York Mini 10k, […]
Irish ultra runner Eoin Keith has won the Northern Traverse from the west to the east coast of northern England in a time of 51 hours 37 minutes 23 secs. The 190 mile course with 16,000 ft of climb through fell, dale and moor, started at St Bees and took in the Lake District in […]
Paul Robinson of St Coca’s ran a personal best of 3:54.77 for the mile at last night’s Bislett Games in Oslo. World indoor 1500m champion Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti won with race in 3:49.49. Robinson was running his second Diamond League in six days. In the “national” 1500m, Laura Crowe of Riocht finished second in […]
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