For a second year, regular Irish visitor Peter Brandon Somba had a narrow victory at the annual Terenure 5-mile in Dublin beating Raheny marathon man Mick Clohisey – only just back in training after the London Marathon last month – by two seconds. Somba was timed at 24 mins 8 secs – over half a […]
Cillian O’Leary and Laura Shaughnessy were the winners of the 40th anniversary RTE 5-Mile held in bitterly cold conditions around the roads of Donnybrook. First held in 1977, when the race started on Beaver Row and took in a loop of Clonskeagh and Goatstown before returning to Donnybrook, the route has changed many times, due […]
Raheny’s Mick Clohisey finished tenth in this morning’s Seville Marathon with his time of 2:15. 11 moving him into second on the list for Rio ’16. It’s very tight – Kevin Seaward on 2:14.52 tops the list followed by Clohisey 2:15.11, Sergiu Ciobanu 2:15.15 and Paul Pollock 2:15.39. So just 47 secs separate the top […]
* Just a week after her second place at the final race of the Triathlon World Series, Aileen Reid was back in action on the streets of Belfast finishing 20th overall and first woman at the Deep River Rock Belfast Marathon. Reid clocked a time of 79 mins 33 secs putting her four minutes ahead […]
Belfast athlete Stephen Scullion, who is a member of Clonliffe Harriers, won the Laganside 10km in Belfast today. Scullion and Scott Rankin of Foyle Valley led the race for the first 5km before Scullion pulled away from victory in 30 mins 48 secs. East Down’s Brendan Teer finished second after overtaking Rankin in the later […]
Irish marathon champion Paul Pollock, of Kent AC, has run a time of 2:17.10 at the London Marathon – just 40 seconds slower than his winning time in Dublin last October. As he had done in Dublin, Pollock set a fast pace from the start, and although he struggled in the final 10km, still finished […]
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