Christine McMahon proved the star of the large Irish contingent competing at the AtletiGaGeneva meet in Switzerland when she ran a lifetime best of 56.42secs in the 4000m hurdles. Her time was enough for second place in the B race and was an A qualifying mark for the Europeans. McMahon had already run a European […]
Cillian O’Leary of Raheny Shamrock has won the Cork City Marathon in 2:30.41. O’Leary, who comes from Cork, finished exactly a minute ahead of Vincent Chepyegon. Chepyegon had built a sizeable lead at the 19 mile mark but started to fade and was caught by O’Leary with 800m to go. Third in 2:32.29 was Brian […]
Fionnuala Britton ran a determined race to finish second at the Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross-Country in Holyrood Park. Running even better was Gemma Steel who was runner-up behind Sophie Duarte of France at the European Cross-Country and was beating Britton for only the second time. Britton, along with British junior Emilia Gorecka, pushed the pace […]
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