Maria McCambridge pulled up in the Frankfurt Marathon just after the half way mark. McCambridge went through 10km in 36 mins 10 secs and ran 17:53 for the third 5km in the race, which put her on target to break 2 hrs 33 mins. Clearly something went wrong soon after with her time for the […]
Maria McCambridge finished sixth in today’s Great Scottish Run in Glasgow with a time of 73 mins 23 secs. That time – marginally faster than her 73 mins 28 secs from Charleville a few weeks ago – puts her second on the current Irish rankings behind Fionnualla Britton McCormack, who ran 71 mins 33 secs […]
Ismail Ssenyange and Maria McCambridge came out on top at the Charleville International Half Marathon in Co Cork. For Ssenyange, who is Ugandan and a member of the Dubai Creek Striders, it was third time lucky – he finished second in both 2013 and last year. McCambridge, who is aiming to make the Rio ’16 […]
In a thrilling finish to the SSE Airtricity Frank Duffy 10 Mile, Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu just held off the challenge of Thomas Fitzpatrick from Tallaght for victory. The pair were given an identical time of 49 mins 18 secs. Third was Rathfarnham’s Sean Hehir in 50 mins 6 secs. First woman by some way was […]
A brilliant race up front at the SSE Airtricity Fingal 10km saw Mick Clohisey and second placed Mark Kenneally both going under the course record of 30 mins 14 secs. It was a second course record for Clohisey in the Dublin Races Series; he also broke the record at the Irish Runner 5-Mile last month. […]
Paul Byrne of St Abban’s finished second in the 400m hurdles at the Meeting Arcobolla in Boissan, Italy yesterday. Byrne’s time of 51.33 secs was not far off the 51.20 personal best he ran in Leixlip a few weeks ago. In Valenje, Slovania, Kerry O’Flaherty of Newcastle AC ran 9 mins 56 secs to finish […]
A strong team effort saw the Irish team finish sixth at the European Team Championships League 1 in Heraklion, Greece over the weekend – their best ever result. The team had made a great start to the day when Ben Reynolds finished second in the 100m hurdles behind Konstadinos Douvalidis of Greece. Mark English also […]
Maria McCambridge of DSD proved the class of the field at the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon and despite the dreadful conditions, clocked a personal best time for the race of 34 mins 3 secs on her way to victory. It was fourth time lucky for McCambridge since 2010 alone; she has been running the race […]
Kevin Mulcaire of Ennis took over four seconds off John Treacy’s 40-year old Irish junior record when he ran 14 mins 02.6 secs in the 5000m at the BMC Meet in Stretford, Manchester yesterday. A thrilling race saw Mulcaire leading for much of the race and losing out in the end only to Andrew Hayes […]
Tomas Fitzpatrick made it a home victory for a second year at the Tallaght 5km, when he beat a quality field including Clonliffe’s Mark Kenneally and Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock. His winning time was 14 mins 37 secs. Finishing 11th overall and first woman in 16 mins 26 secs was Maria McCambridge who, like […]
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