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 […]
Tomas Fitzpatrick made it a home victory for a second year at the Tallaght 5km, when he beat a quality field including Clonliffe’s Mark Kenneally and Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock. His winning time was 14 mins 37 secs. Finishing 11th overall and first woman in 16 mins 26 secs was Maria McCambridge who, like […]
Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock ran a time of 2:17.42 to finish best of the Irish in his debut marathon at Rotterdam. Thomas Frazer was just behind him in 2:17.44, while Gary Thornton of GCH ran 2:18.21 and Rathfarnham’s Sean Hehir 2:19.23. Hampered by a groin strain was Donore master John Dunne who still finished […]
Raheny’s Mick Clohisey and Maria McCambridge took the senior titles at the Glo Health National Interclub Cross-Country Championships held in Kilbroney, Co Down. Clohisey, the defending champion, had a comfortable victory in the senior men’s 12km race over Sergiu Ciobanu of Clonliffe, DSD’s Brendan O’Neill and Clonmel’s Kevin Maunsell – the big four in the […]
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. […]
Fionnualla Britton of Kilcoole is to make her marathon debut at the forthcoming European Athletics Championships starting in Zurich Switzerland on Tuesday August 12. Britton will compete in the 10,000m on the opening night of competition and then line out in the women’s marathon on Saturday August 16. With Rio 2016 just two years away, […]
MARTIN FAGAN made it a home win at the inaugural Mullingar 10-Mile winning in a fast time of 48 mins 43 secs. Fagan, who returned to racing earlier this year after a two year doping ban, was out on his own for much of the race. Rathfarnham’s Sean Hehir was almost two minutes adrift in […]
Australian Brandon Hargreaves, who has declared for Ireland and joined Clonliffe Harriers, outsprinted Sean Hehir of Rathfarnham WSAF to win today’s Irish Runner 5-Mile in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Finishing a distant third was Paddy Hamilton of Annadale. Siobhan O’Doherty showed a welcome return to form when she won the women’s race , finishing 15th overall. […]
Edinburgh-based Galway woman Nicola Duncan ran a superb personal best of 2 hours 33 minutes 28 secs at today’s London Marathon. This is the fastest by an Irishwoman since November 2005 when Marie Davenport ran 2:33.59 in New York – over eight years ago. Duncan went through the the half way point in 75 mins […]
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