Jackie Carthy Stamp of Kilmore AC in Co Wexford has won Ireland’s first gold medal at the European Masters’ Athletics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. Carthy won the W45 category in the cross-country, finishing second overall in the W35-50 race. Her time of 13 mins 245 secs put her just four seconds behind overall winner Christina […]
Ciara Mageean of UCD shaved over eight seconds off her outdoor mile best with a time of 4 mins 22.40 secs at today’s London Anniversary Games. At the bell, Mageean, who had drawn the inside lane, was lying ninth, but she pulled up two places on the final lap. Race winner was Helen Obiri of […]
Jenna Brommell of Emerald pulled off one of the performances of the day at the Glo Health National Junior and U23 T-F Championships in Tullamore when she won the junior 400m with a time of 54.26 secs. DSD’s Mollie O’Reilly was second in 55.52 secs – just off a second world junior B qualification mark. […]
Paul Pollock finished 14th in the World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff. Despite the windy, wet conditions, Pollock clocked an excellent time of 62 mins 46 secs and was second European. Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor, the defending champion, won the race in 59:10, with Britain’s Mo Farah third in 59:59. Pollock ‘s time showed that he […]
Ireland’s Sarah McCormack finished a fighting ninth in the women’s race at the World Mountain Running Championships in Betws-y-Coed, Wales. Uganda’s Sally Chesang, the women’s junior winner from last year when the race was uphill only, underlined her huge potential when she won the race from the British trio of Emily Collinge, Emma Clayton and […]
In his outdoor season debut, UCD’s Mark English finished fifth with a time of 1:45.83 in a closely fought men’s 800m at the FBK Games in Hengelo. Winning in the dive for the line was Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski in a time of 1:45.56; Robin Schembera of Germany was second in 1:45.48, with South Africa’s Andre […]
Armagh’s Danielle Fegan and Ben Thistlewood of Leevale won a well attended Glo Health National Novice Cross-Country Championships in Santry. Fegan was part of a group of five that broke away on the second lap of the women’s race. She made her push on the last lap, with Mary-Anne O’Sullivan of Tinryland finishing a fighting […]
Sarah McCormack of Clonliffe Harriers finished best of the Irish at the 30th World Mountain Running Championships in Italy when she finished 15th in the women’s uphill only 8.4km race in a time of 51 mins 13 secs. Less than a minute behind was Sarah Mulligan of DSD in 20th place with a time of […]
Ciara Mageean of UCD ran a personal best 4 mins 35.47 secs to finish second in the Great North Run Mile at Newcastle yesterday. The race was won by Scotland’s Laura Muir in 4:34.84. Donore’s John Travers finished 7th in the men’s mile with a time of 4:03.68. In the much-hyped 30th anniversary Great North […]
Sarah McCormack of Clonliffe finished first woman at a shortened Snowdon International Mountain race, where runners were forced to turn back at Clogwyn station due to atrociously bad weather. It made her the second Irish woman ever to win this race after Sarah Mulligan’s victory last year. McCormack, who is the Irish cross country champion, […]
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