Athletics

Championship Best Performances and thrilling competition was the order of the day at the GloHealth Juvenile Track and Field Championships held in Tullamore on Sunday the 13th of July. Robbie Marrs (City of Lisburn AC) set a stunning new Championships Best Performance (CBP) of 1.94m in the U16 boy’s High Jump. The mark added 4cm

08.07.2014 Nine of Ireland’s up and coming athletic talent will travel to Eugene, Oregon to compete at the World Junior Track and Field Championships which take place from the 22nd-27th of July.  The level of competition at the World Junior Championships will be of the highest quality when you consider previous winners include athletic icons

Derval O’Rourke has announced her retirement from athletics today. The former World Champion, multiple Irish record holder and three time Olympian has been one of Ireland’s greatest ever athletes, winning five Championship medals, including being crowned World Champion. O’Rourke ran all her Irish records at major championships in the green vest. The Cork hurdler also

It was a promising weekend for Irish athletics with Thomas Barr and Mark English enjoying the perfect build-up to the European Championships with some world class performances. Barr was in excellent form when setting an Irish 400m hurdles record of 48.90 in Geneva, Switzerland on Saturday to place him top of the European rankings. “I wasn’t expecting that,”

Athletics Ireland have announced a team of 45 athletes to compete at the European Team Championships 1st League in Tallinn, Estonia from the 21st-22nd of June. The Irish team will face Estonia, Belarus, Greece, Norway, Romania, Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Hungary, Slovenia and Lithuania during the two-day competition, with the top three finishing teams earning a promotion

Paul Robinson competed well in the Dream Mile at the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway last night coming away with a new personal best of 3:54.77. After the race Robinson said “I’m getting close to a big breakthrough”. The  race was won by Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman in 3:49.49. He added “It’s just that last 200m. If I can

Irish athletes are set to compete at the IFAM International Flanders Meet in Oordegem Belgium this Saturday night. Indoor 800m record holder, Mark English will make his outdoor season debut.   An Irish men’s and women’s 4x100m team are set to line up and will be vying to achieve top 16 European ranking  needed to

World Champion Rob Heffernan (Togher AC) continued his preparations for the European Track and Field Championships in Zurich with a victory in the International Race-Walking Grand Prix in Naumburg, Germany at the weekend. Heffernan dropped down in distance to 20km for the race and showed his class by winning the race in a time of 1:21.07,

World Champion Rob Heffernan (Togher AC) finished in the 23rd place at the prestigious IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Taicang, China on Sunday 4th of May. A day previous Laura Reynolds (Mohill AC) achieved the qualifying standard in the women’s 20km race for the European Track and Field Championships in Zurich. The world cup