Mark English of UCD ran an Olympic qualifying time of 1:45.49 for fourth in a top quality 800m at the Anniversary Games in London. “Thrilled to run Olympic qualifying time in London today. Love this track and crowd,” he tweeted afterwards. The standard for Rio ’16 is 1:45.80 – faster than the 1:46.00 need for […]
Ireland’s latest world champion is Thomas Barr who won the 400m hurdles at the World Student Games in Gwangju, Korea. With a time almost a second faster than anyone in the field, Barr was always favourite to win the title but it proved tougher than expected. Until the final hurdle, Algeria’s Abdelma Lahoulou was pushing […]
Thanks to a solid all-round performance from the team, the Irish are lying fifth on the points tables after the opening day of the European Team Championships League 1 in Heraklion, Greece. Although there were no wins, there were a number of third placings and while Thomas Barr may be disappointed with his second in […]
Thomas Barr of Ferrybank improved his own 400m hurdles record to 48.65 secs at the Diamond League in Rome tonight. Running in lane two, Barr moved up to fourth place from seventh in the home straight. Johnny Dutch of the USA won the race in 48.13, with his American team mate Michael Tinsley second in […]
Thomas Barr again went under 50 seconds when winning the 400m hurdles at the IFAN Meet in Belgium. Barr’s time of 49.50 secs put him comfortably clear of Belgium’s Michael Bultheel who finished in 50.61 secs. Barr’s Irish record stands at 48.90 secs; he ran 48.99 earlier this season in Doha. Ireland’s Jason Harvey was […]
Ireland’s Thomas Barr and Greek pole vaulter Ekaterini Stefanidi have been voted European Athletes of the Month for April. Barr, who ran a European-leading 400m hurdles time of 49.04 secs at the Tom Jones Classic in Gainesville, USA, on 24 April, had over 1,300 Facebook votes and 280 retweets and favourites on Twitter. Stefanidi’s 4.71m […]
Today – Saturday 2 May (Bahamas are four hours behind us) 19.00 (1am our time) Men’s 4 x 400m heats (Irish team – from Thomas Barr, Brian Gregan, Craig Lynch, Dara Kerwick, Brian Murphy, Richard Morrissey) 19.29 Women’s 4 x 200m hts 19.46 Men’s 4 x 100m hts 20.09 Men’s 4 x 800m final 2032 […]
Fionnuala Britton successfully defended her national 10km title when she finished second in the race, run in conjunction with the Spar Great Ireland Run in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Britton finished second behind the 2012 winner Gemma Steel in a personal best time of 33 mins 7 secs for the hilly course. Second of the Irish […]
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. […]
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