Fionnuala McCormack finished a disappointed fourth at the Antrim International in Greenmount Campus after losing a shoe with a kilomotre to go of the 5.6km race. By the end of the opening lap, former African junior champion Caroline Kipkirui of Kenya and Ethiopians Gotytom Gebreslase and Birtukan Adamu along with McCormack had broken clear of […]
Gladys Ganiel of North Belfast Harriers won the Leiden Half Marathon in Belgium this morning. With selection for the Rio ’16 marathon squad taking place tomorrow, Ganiel had hoped to prove her fitness by running a fast time. Unfortunately, warm, muggy conditions and cobbles on quarter of the course meant times generally were slow and […]
Regular Irish visitor Peter Brandon Somba had a narrow victory at the annual Terenure 5-mile in Dublin beating Raheny’s Mick Clohisey by a single second. Somba was timed at 23 mins 33 secs and Clohisey at 23 mins 34 secs on a perfect day for running – sunny, but not too warm. Third was Clonliffe’s […]
Marcus Lawler of IT Carlow produced one of the performances of the weekend at the Irish Universities Track and Field Championships at Santry when he smashed the colleges record to win the men’s 200m in 20.98 secs. In the battle for second place, Kieran Elliott of UL edged out Christopher Sibanda of Limerick IT. Lawler […]
Carlow’s Marcus Lawler celebrated his 21st birthday by winning the 200m with a new stadium record of 20.96 secs at the Glo Health National Indoor Championships in Athlone. Lawler had warmed up for the 200m by finishing a fighting fifth in the 60m won by Shercock’s Craig Lynch in 6.81; Lawler ran 6.92 secs. Dominating […]
Fionnuala Britton successfully defended her national 10km title when she finished second in the race, run in conjunction with the Spar Great Ireland Run in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Britton finished second behind the 2012 winner Gemma Steel in a personal best time of 33 mins 7 secs for the hilly course. Second of the Irish […]
Leevale multi-eventer Sam Healy won the race of the day at the GloHealth Junior/U23 Championships at the CIT when he beat Matthew Behan of Crusaders to take the junior 110m hurdles title. He finished in 14.11 secs; just one-hundredth of a second ahead of Behan. A lot more relaxed was the long jump which Healy […]
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 […]
Louise Shanahan has won the 800m title at the European Youth Olympic Festival in the Netherlands in a huge PB of 2.08.75. Ireland took a second gold in the 4 x100m, with the team anchored by Roseanne McGuckian who took individual bronze in the 200m. Ireland had already collected two silver medals in Utrecht – […]
UCD’s Ciara Everard clocked 2:04.86 to finish second in the women’s A and the BMC Meet in Watford; a BMC personal best. Everard picked up a niggling injury when in Rome last month and has only returned to racing. Earlier this year, she ran 2:02.54 indoors. Michael Mulhare of Portlaoise moved closer to the 14 […]
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