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 […]
Want to know how the 2013 world champion 50km walker Rob Heffernan trains? “It’s not that different to marathon training although we have to concentrate on technique – long walks, tempo, intervals. Plus massages and gym,” says a man who can walk a time of under three hours for the marathon distance and of 38 […]
Gary Thornton and Regina Casey made it a Galway City Harriers double at a well-supported Tuam 5km. Matt Bidwell, also GCH, was second and first master and Zola Flynn of Calry second woman. CIARA MAGEEAN of UCD ran 2:04.90 in an open 800m at the Glo Health Indoor League in Athlone on Saturday. In the […]
Robert Heffernan of Togher finished a fighting fifth in the men’s 50km race walk in 3:44:17 at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing while the men’s 4x400m relay team set a new national record. Heffernan was in the thick of the action for much of the 50km walk won by Slovakia’s Matej Toth in 3 […]
World Championships – Irish times (seven hours behind Beijing) Day 1 – Sat 22 Aug Men 800m – Ht 3 : 5 Mark English (UCD) 1:46.69 (q). SF3: 5 1:45.55. 400m hurdles – Ht 4: 3 Thomas Barr (Ferrybank) 49.56 (Q).SF1: 4 48.71 Day 2 – Sun 23 Aug Men 20km Walk – Alex Wright […]
Paul Robinson finished fourth in a dramatic 1500m while the Irish men’s 4 x 400m team set a new national record at the final session of the Europeans Championships in Zurich. In the 1500m Ciaran O Lionaird was tripped from behind on the second last lap. There were two more fallers on the last lap. […]
Donore’s John Travers led home over 1,500 finishers in the Patrick’s Festival 5km, held over a slightly changed route from St Stephen’s Green in Dublin. Travers was a comfortable winner in 14 mins 7 secs, with Clonliffe’s Colm Rooney 16 seconds adrift for second place. In the women’s race, Fionnuala Britton of Sli Cualann finished […]
World 50km champion Robert Heffernan from Togher finished second in the men’s mile walk at the Millrose Games in New York with a time of 5 mins 39.75 secs. Winner was Andreas Gustafsson from Sweden in 5:34.45. Heffernan’s record of 15 indoors titles was equalled by Ferrybank’s Kelly Proper at the opening day of the […]
World champion race walker Robert Heffernan leads a list of 11 athletes who are to receive cash grants under the Irish Sports Council carding scheme. Heffernan gets the top grant of €40,000, along with Paralympians Jason Smyth, Michael McKillop and Orla Barry. Fionnuala Britton, who finished fourth at the European Cross-Country having won the title […]
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 […]
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