After the excitement of the national senior indoors last week, we won’t forget the various other events from over the last couple of weeks.
AIT Grand Prix
There were Olympians and world class athletes aplenty at this meet which is now a firm favourite in the Irish athletics calendar. Just a few days before John Travers won the national indoor 1500m in a tight finish, his duel with Paul Robinson started here – John contested the mile race and was the first Irishman home, 5th in 4.02.54 (he went through 1500m in 3.46.09) to Robinson’s 4.02.77.
Enniscorthy 10k
Good runs here from Eoin Durkan 10th in 33.25, Anthony Flannery 11th 33.50 and Kieran Beausang 91st in 39.36
BHAA Cross Country ALSAA
Ann Woodlock was 1st W70 in the women’s race in 17.34 over 2 miles. In the 4 mile race, good to see men’s captain Rossa Hurley back after injury – he finished 8th and 2nd M35. Raj Puchon was 53rd (not long after doing the Donadea 50k in 4.25.16) , Barry Potts 61st and 1st M65, Joseph Maguire 88th, Terry Mee 107th and 1st M70 and Tom Halton 119th.
Wicklow Hospice Half-Marathon
This half marathon is on a tough course in Avondale/Rathdrum with a lot of hills so well done to one of our newer recruits Roisin Harkin who ran an excellent 95.17 (6th lady) and Rhona McHugh 1.41( 7th lady)
Duleek 5k
Well done Ken McKeown 18.45 and Ariana Ball 23.42
Scottish National Senior Cross Country Championship Falkirk
One of our newer members Fiona Hegarty ran for her Scottish club Edinburgh AC in this very tough race with a huge field and finished in 109th place
Spring Throws Event Dunboyne
Last weekend we had two athletes compete in the open springs throws in Dunboyne AC, in horrendous weather conditions. Lauren O Keeffe in the women’s hammer took 3rd place 47.57 in an international field with the Swedish athlete taking 1st place, Lauren’s brother Ryan opened his outdoor season competing in the discus with 25.25 for the 1.5kg discus.
Report from Day 2 of the Dublin Juvenile Championships and Medal round up by Leonie Newman
Another super day full of semi finals , finals, PBS and medals. Our first track medal this morning from Fathi Aden taking the under 17 1500m title Jack Raftery was 6th in the under 18 Zakariya Ahmed was 4th.
In the under 19 girls, Suzanne Masterson was 2nd and Eliza Ní Thighearnaigh 4th. In under 19 boys Graham Gilshinan and Daniel Brady was 6th .The 400m was also on with Clodagh Martin and Lara O’Byrne making it to the finals.
We had very few in field events today but still came away with medals .Sean Kinsella finished 3rd in boys under 14 high jump. Kolade Abidoun got gold and Lara O’Byrne took gold in the under 18. In the long jump Oliver Hopkins under 13 was unlucky to finish in 4th just outside the medals.
Our biggest entries were for the sprints and for a lot of our athletes it was their first time to race for the club . From under 9 to 19 our youngest medal came from under 10 Adam Clement in the 60 m winning gold – next up was his big brother Emmanuel who won silver in the boys under 15, Lucy Kirwan was 4th in the under 16 girls and Ben Iveagh was 4th boys under 17. Suzi O’Farrell won the under 18 60m title with 3 other Donore athletes making the final. Aoife Lynch continued her winning streak taking the under 19 title with Rebecca Slattery taking the silver .
It should be noted that we had a lot of athletes making semi finals today especially from the younger age groups many of whom had raced on Friday night.They showed great determination and lots of potential.
Amber Lynch under 9 , Cillian Mc Cooey under 9 ( first race for club ) both made it to finals, Leah Nunann and Roise Tavey under 10 made it to the semis
Full medal tally from the weekend as follows: 16 gold , 13 silver, 4 bronze
Under 9 girls
Amber Lynch 600m 2nd
Under 10 boys
Adam Clement 60m 1st
Under 11 boys
Matei Ursahi 600m 2nd
4×100 relay boys 1st
Under 14 girls
Denisa Ursu shot putt 1st
Under 14 boys
Sean Kinsella high jump 3rd 60m hurdles 3rd
Under 15 boys
Emmanuel Clement 60m 2nd
Under 16 girls
4 x200 relay 3rd
Under 17 boys
Jack Raftery 800m 2nd
Fathi Aden 1500 1st
Ryan O’Keeffe shot putt 2nd
Under 18 girls
Suzi O’Farrell 60m 1st 200m2nd
Ciaria O’Donnell 60mh 2nd
Lucy Hurly high jump 2nd
Jennifer Threadwell shot putt 2nd
Lara O’Byrne 1st in pole vault , high jump . Shot putt , and long jump
Under 18 boys
Kolade Aboduim 1st in long jump 60m h and 2nd in 60m
Under 19 girls
Suzanne Masterson 1500 2nd
Lauren O’Keeffe shot putt 1st
Roisin Rynn 60mh 1st
Aoife Lynch 60m 1st 200m1st
Rebecca Slattery 60m 2nd 200m 3rd
Relay 4×200 2nd
Under 19 boys
Iain Darragh shot putt 1st
Report by Florence Curley & Leonie Newman
Thanks to David Campbell for picture