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, […]
Santry came alive last week with brilliant runs for Mark English, Thomas Barr and John Travers at the Morton Games – and more of the same can be expected at this weekend’s Glo Health Irish Track and Field Championships. The big star of last year’s championships was Ferrybank’s Kelly Proper, with a hat trick of […]
Two athletes made the European Championships A qualification mark at the second round of the national league, for which full results are only now available. In Athlone, Zoe Brown of Raheny Shamrock cleared 4.40m to win the pole vault – indeed that height would also have won her the men’s competition. Brown had improved her […]
Paul Robinson of St Coca’s ran a personal best of 3:54.77 for the mile at last night’s Bislett Games in Oslo. World indoor 1500m champion Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti won with race in 3:49.49. Robinson was running his second Diamond League in six days. In the “national” 1500m, Laura Crowe of Riocht finished second in […]
Highlights of the second day of the Woodie’s DIY National Indoors in Athlone includes a 16th indoor title for Kelly Proper of Ferrybank when she won the 200m in 23.56 – a new stadium record, improving on the 23.75 secs she had run a day earlier in the heats. In the long jump, she marginally […]
Lisburn’s Amy Foster missed out on World Indoors qualification by one-hundredth of a second when she ran a time of 7.33 secs to finish fourth in the women’s 60m at the opening day of the British Indoors in Sheffield. Foster had steadily improved on her time running 7.36 secs in her heat and 7.35 secs […]
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