Track report
There was good news from the National Masters Indoors Championships in Athlone on Sunday. There was a double success for Donal Iremonger in the M45 class. He won silver in the 800m in an excellent time of 2.09.34 and he won the 400m in 55.18.
Anne Gormley won gold in the W50 3000M walk in a time of 19.53 which is a season’s best.
Last week there were multiple medals in the Leinster track and field indoors (results took a while to go up so here they are in full). Notable here was the silver for John Travers in the senior men’s 800m in 1.55.33 – a last sharpener before he went to Belgrade for the European Indoors. Ray Hynes got silver in the 3000m in 8.35.55 – great to see him back in the frame. In masters competition, there was gold M45 for Donal Iremonger in the 400m in 55.94. In the men’s 4×200 relay there was team silver – congratulations David Campbell, Adam Halpin, Conor Fox and Jack Rudden Kelly
David Campbell 400m 52.84 7th
Adam Halpin 400m 53.43 10th
Kevin Nolan 4.22.52 1500m 7th
Rory Owens 9.27.83 3000m 6th
Road and cross country roundup
The big result of the weekend was Daragh Fitzgibbon’s bronze medal in the IUAA cross country championships in a soggy Abbotstown – terrific run for Darragh who is going from strength to strength and he also helped his UCD Bears team to the silver team medal. Having a fine run in the women’s race was Jona Kalemi running for DCU in 38th place.
On the road there was a good run from Rossa Hurley in the Longford 10k who came 2nd in 33.35 coming back well from his injury. Belated well done to last week’s winners – Sorcha Nic Dhomhnaill was the ladies winner in the Adare 10k back in her native Limerick – this race attracted over 500 runners and she had a very tight finish to win by 3 seconds (38.30) on a tough, hilly course. Brother Aogan came 5th overall in 34.25. Seán Fox finished 3rd overall – and 1st M40 – in the very hilly Windmill 10k in Garristown on Sunday.
Ken McKeown was first home for Donore in 15th in the Kinvara 10k. Also representing the club in Kinvara was a crew of 15 Fit4Lifers from Donore, including coach Barry Potts, 13 of whom tackled the half with another 2 Fit4Lifers racing the 10k. Niamh O’Reilly did 1.48.08 and Neil Maddox did 1.45.19 in the half-marathon (both PBs).
Over in her native county Clare, Barbara Cleary was 1st woman and 3rd overall in the Michael Egan 5 mile in Quilty on another hilly lap – she won in 29.29
Report by Florence Curley with additional detail by Deirdre Healy
Picture courtesy of Deirdre Healy