The Irish women’s team, led by Sarah McCormack in sixth place, have taken team bronze at the World Mountain Running Championships in Krynica, Poland. McCormack, who is based in Scotland, ran a brilliant race to finish less than two minutes behind Italy’s Alice Gaggi. Less than two minutes behind again was Raheny’s Kate Cronin in […]
Freddy Keron Sittuk was in Blessington this morning where he battled it out with Kilkenny’s Brian Maher for victory in the annual Lakes 10km. In the end there was just two seconds in it, with Freddy getting there first. Over a minute behind in third place was Tommy Evans of Gowran. In the women’s race, […]
Brian Gregan is through to the semi-finals of the 400m as third fastest loser at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow after finishing sixth in the second 400m heat of the day. Gregan’s time was 46.04; ahead of him the top five crossed the line in a blanket finish with the Brazilian Henriques running a […]
Carnage in the sprints at the Cork City Sports with numerous false starts. In the women’s 100m, first Kelly Proper and then Ailis McSweeney were disqualified. Jessica Young of the USA stayed calm and won in 11.43. Catherine McManus of Celtic DCH won the B race in 11.82 ( -0.2 wind reading). Among the DQs […]
Derval O’Rourke is the latest withdrawal from the Irish team for the European Team Championships this weekend. She has a lingering chest infection. Replacing her in the 100m hurdles is young pretender Sarah Lavin of Emerald who ran 13.45 secs to break O’Rourke’s Irish junior record in Geneva earlier this month. Other withdrawals through illness […]
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