Robert Heffernan of Togher Athletic Club delivered a stunningly brilliant performance in London this morning when finishing fourth in the men’s 50km Olympic Race Walk in 3:37.54, a time that shattered his own Irish record. The race was won by Sergey Kirdyapkin of Russia in 3:35.59, an Olympic record and Heffernan’s fourth place finishing time […]
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A season’s best time of 3:30.55 was not enough to advance the Irish women’s 4 X 400m Relay Team into the Olympic final and the Irish quartet of Marian Heffernan, Joanne Cuddihy, Jessie Barr and Michelle Carey finished sixth of eight countries in the second of two qualifying rounds won by the USA in 3:22.09.
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Derval O’Rourke qualified for the semi-finals of the Women’s 100 metres hurdles at the Olympic stadium in London this morning. The 31 year old Cork woman finished fourth in Heat Four but her time of 12.91 was the fastest of those who did not automatically qualify by finishing in the top three paces in each
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The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) and its sponsors P and G and Electric Ireland’s programme of providing tickets free of charge to athletes has been a great success. Its been an innovation which has been important due to the fact that tickets for London have been difficult to access through the normal system. LOCOG and the OCI have
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Linda Byrne ran two hours 37 minutes and 13 seconds to finish 66th, three seconds ahead of Ava Hutchinson in 68th. Catriona Jennings was last of the finishers in a time of 3:22:11. Tiki Gelana became the second Ethiopian woman to win marathon gold when she held off Kenyan Priscah Jeptoo to win a soggy
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The appeal to the Olympic Council of Ireland’s Appeal Tribunal by Catriona Cuddihy against the decision of an Athletics Ireland Appeal Panel (AIAP) to de-select her from the Women’s 4 x 400m relay team for the Olympic Games has been successful. The OCI’s Appeal Tribunal held an in person hearing on Thursday night last,
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Derval O’Rourke is back on track to compete in her third Olympic Games after she proved her fitness at a meeting in Lignano, Italy on Tuesday night. O’Rourke clocked her fastest time of the year at 13.02 seconds finishing second to the American star Lo Lo Jones, the winner in 12.85. This performance will have
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Olive Loughnane overcame the suffocating conditions to claim a remarkable second place in the IAAF Permit Race Walking in Milan yesterday. The Loughrea woman finished in a time of 91.33 as the Italian city fizzled in temperatures that reached 30 degrees Celsius.
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Laura Reynolds (Mohill AC) has achieved the Olympic standard in the 20K Walk at the IAAF Permit Race Walking Meeting in La Coruña, Spain. Reynolds finished in a time of 1:32.37 inside the standard of 1:33.30. The Leitrim woman had achieved the B standard on two separate occasions and this was her last opportunity to
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Fionnuala Britton has achieved her third Olympic standard after finishing sixth in the 5,000m in a time of 15:15.69 in Rabat, Morocco last night. The Kilcoole AC athlete’s time cut almost six seconds off her previous best of 15:21.45, achieved in a mixed race last year. Britton now has Olympic standards for 5,000m, 10,000m and
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Patsy McGonagle, AAI, was given the opportunity to meet with LOCOG athletics officials on Sunday May 6th at the UK University Athletics Games, the test event for the track and field events. Accompanied by Stephen Martin , OCI, they were joined by colleagues from the USA, Canada, and GB for the venue visit. The delegation
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Robert Heffernan will be part of the Irish Race Walking team that will travel to Saransk, Russia for the prestigious IAAF World Race Walking Cup on the 12-13th May. A record number of 67 countries have entered to compete. The prominent Russian athletes on home soil are expected to claim the majority of the podium
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