Derry’s Declan Reed successfully defended his men’s title at the Glo Health Masters Cross-Country Championships held in Tuam, Co Galway. Reed was chased hard by Letterkenny’s Ciaran Doherty who is back in top form this season. He finished in 23 mins 15 secs, with Doherty just four seconds behind for second. Dublin champion John Dunne […]
A 200m record of 21.18 secs from Marcus Lawler was just one of the highlights at yesterday’s Irish Universities Indoors Athletics Championships in Athlone. Lawler was breaking the record of 21.26 secs he sat last year. He also won the 60m in a personal best 6.83 secs. Other strong performances came from Thomas Barr of […]
Leevale’s Ciaran O Lionaird booked his place on the Irish team for the European Athletics Championships when he won a thrilling 1500m at the second day of the Glo Health Irish Track and Field Championships in Santry. Four men have A qualifying standards for the 1500m at the Europeans and they duly finished in the […]
Thomas Barr in the 400m hurdles, Mark English 800m, Paul Robinson 1,500m, Brian Gregan 400m and Fionnuala Britton 5,000m are all expected to take big points at this weekend’s European Team Championships in Tallin, Estonia. Another who could make an impression is Australian-born Kevin Batt, who is selected for the 5000m having run a time […]
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 […]
Tomas Fitzpatrick of Tallaght made a winning return to the Creane and Creane Enniscorthy 10km after a year interrupted by surgery on a troublesome leg. He proved that he is back to full fitness by pushing the pace from the start and winning in 29 mins 59 secs. In the battle for second place, Galway’s […]
Phil Healy, in her first year at UCC, proved the star of the Irish Universities Track and Field Championships in Athlone when she ran a time of 7.36 secs – a new Irish U23 and university record. In the men’s 200m, Marcus Lawler of Carlow IT improved on his own Irish junior record with a […]
Sprinter Phil Healy’s time of 7.46 secs for the 60m proved the highlight of the inaugural National Club Indoor League held in Athlone. In her first year as a senior, Healy stormed down the track to beat old rival Sarah Lavin, now with UCD, who clocked 7.61 secs, with Catherine McManus of Celtic DCH third […]
Sarah Mulligan of DSD has become the first Irish woman to win the prestigious Snowdon International Mountain Race in Llanberis, north Wales. This is the best result by an Irish mountain runner since John Lenihan won the world title; indeed Lenihan is the only previous Irish winner at Snowdon, although Robin Bryson does hold the […]
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