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 […]
Irish junior international Michaela Walsh of SM&P Swinford was an emphatic winner of the senior girls shot at the Glo Health Connacht Schools Track and Field Championships in Athlone IT. Walsh’s 14.94m effort in the third and final round put her over seven metres clear of the field. Walsh was the only competitor in the […]
DSD’s Anita White threw a season’s best of 51.37m to win the women’s javelin today’s Spring Throws meet in a chilly Santry today. White’s target is the European Championships qualifying mark of 57.50m. Cushinstown’s Shane Joyce won the senior men’s 800g javelin with a best of 53.62m while junior Garreth Crawford of Lifford Strabane threw the […]
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 […]
Javelin thrower Anita White of DSD moved closer to the European Championships qualifying mark with a throw of 51.43m at the opening day of the Winter Throws Meet in Arad, Romania. White’s throw came in the first round and she finished 11th. Her target is 57.50m; next outing is in Swinford in a few weeks’ […]
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 […]
Kevin Mulcaire from Ennis finished just out of the medals in the men’s 5000m at the at the European Junior Track and Field Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Mulcaire finished a gutsy fourth in 14 mins 39.14 secs – less than four seconds off third place in a tactical race that only came alive in the […]
Long jumper Sam Healy from Leevale produced the best Irish result of the day at the European Junior Track and Field Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Healy jumped a personal best 7.38m to finished second in his group and fourth best overall. He goes in the final tomorrow. Ciara Neville of Emerald in Limerick progressed from […]
Michaela Walsh from Swinford proved the star of the Tailteann Schools Interprovincial Championships in Santry when she broke not one but two record both of them her own. First up was the hammer, where Walsh’s heave of 60.66m improved on the record of 59.92m she has set last year. In the shot, Walsh produced an […]
Michaela Walsh of Swinford won both the hammer and the javelin at the final day of the Glo Health Juvenile Track and Field Championships in Tullamore. In an unusual throws double, Walsh threw a personal best of 60.83m in the hammer and 42.85m in the javelin. Other throwers in good form included Finn Valley’s James […]
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