Day one of the Leinster School’s Track and Field Championships took place in Santry on Wednesday May 14th. There were great performances all round by Donore’s young athletes with 11 medals banked.

Not only were gold medals and PB’s achieved, but in the Junior Girls Hammer Lauren O’Keeffe threw her way into the record books setting a new Leinster record with an incredible 53.02m, the previous record throw was 41.52m. Emily barry was second with a throw of 28.69m just short of her PB. In the Boys Junior Hammer Iain Darroch won gold with a throw of 42.2m. Rebecca Power won the Junior Javelin 31.79m and was second in the Discus with a throw of 24.65m.

In the Minor Girls High Jump Lara O’Byrne won joint gold with a jump of 1.47. In the Boys Junior Hurdles race we had two medal winners, Jack Rudden Kelly continued his fantastic form to take the gold and Alex Clarkin who has also had some great performances this year, took the bronze. Jack also went on to win silver in the Junior High Jump and in the second last race of the day Jack anchored home the relay team in the Boys Junior. Max Carey won the Junior Boys Long Jump with a PB of 5.37.

Also competing: (full results not available)
Suzi O’Farrell Junior 100m 5th 13.58
Cara Brennan Junior 2oom 6th 29.09
Eve Reilly Junior 200m 7th
Rebecca Slathery 6th 110m Hurdles
Lara O’byrne 6th Minor 110m Hurdles
Lucy McCann 1500m 

Well done to everyone.