A sprint double and a new 200m record made Sharlene Mawdsley of Newport the star of the Glo Health All Ireland Schools’ Track and Field Championships in Tullamore. Mawdsley started her day by winning the 100m in a season’s best 11.80 secs, but that proved no more than a warm up for the 200m, where […]
Ciara Mageean won a competitive elite women’s 1500m at the Flanders Cup track meet in Orrtegem, Belgium. The UCD athlete finished in 4:08.05, just ahead of Sarah Lahti of Sweden in 4:08.91 and Norway’s Karoline Grovdal in 4:09.03. In the women’s steeplechase, Sara Treacy of Dunboyne, making her season’s debut in the event, finished fourth […]
Wins for Louis O’Loughlin of Moyle Park in the junior boys race and for Sarah Healy of Holy Child Killiney inter girls made it a great day for Dublin-based Irish athletes at the SIAB Schools International Cross–Country in Falkirk, Scotland. Best of the Irish junior girls was Rebecca Wallace 11th, while best of the inter […]
Defending champion Kevin Mulcaire of St Flannan’s Ennis was a convincing winner of the boys’ senior 6.5km race at the Glo Health Irish Schools Cross Country Championships at Sligo Race Course. It was a fourth national cross-country title for Mulcaire, who is also the current Irish junior cross-country champion. He made his break with a […]
Eimear Fitzpatrick of Our Lady’s Templeogue and Jack O’Leary of Clongowes were the winners of the senior titles at the Glo Health Leinster Schools Cross-Country held in perfect conditions at Santry. Retaining the senior boys’ team title were All Ireland champion St Aidan’s despite missing a few of their key athletes. Race of the day […]
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