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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Catriona Jennings (Rathfarnham AC) achieved the qualification standard for the London Olympic Games in the Rotterdam Marathon, running a time of 2:36:14 (inside the Olympic A standard of 2:37). Jennings joins Linda Byrne (Dundrum South Dublin AC) 2:36:23, Ava Hutchinson (Dundrum South Dublin AC) 2:35:33 and Maria McCambridge (Letterkenny AC) 2:36:37 as the fourth Irish women
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Maria McCambridge has become the fifteenth Irish track and field athlete to make the qualify standard for the 2012 London Olympics. The Letterkenny AC runner did so at the Rome Marathon, running 2:36:37 (inside the Olympic A standard of 2:37). McCambridge was well on track throughout the race, going through the halfway mark in 1:17:37.
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Ben Reynolds put in a great performance on his championship debut to make it through to the 60m Hurdles semi-final at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Istanbul. He finished seventh in that semi-final in 7.80 following on from his 7.82 in the heats. He had a blistering start but hit the third
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Ben Reynolds (North Down AC) will receive his first Irish cap after hitting the standard of 7.74 to break his U23 Irish Indoor 60m Hurdles Record at the International Flanders Athletics Meeting in Belgium earlier in the month. Ciaran O’ Lionaird who placed 10th at World Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Daegu last
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Ciaran O’ Lionaird (Leevale AC) and Mark English (Letterkenny AC) made it a memorable night on the US indoor tracks with big wins last night in Boston and New York respectively. O’ Lionaird won a top quality Mile race at the New Balance Boston Grand Prix in 3:56.01 minutes. He ran a tactically solid throughout
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Fionnuala Britton, coached by Chris Jones won gold at the 18th European Cross Country Championships in Velenje, Slovenia on Sunday. The Kilcoole AC athlete ran a determined race from the front, shaking off the attention of all her challengers before pulling clear with a couple of laps to go. Maintaining a good rhythm throughout, she raced
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Fionnuala Britton (Kilcoole AC) has been named in the Irish Team for the 18th SPAR European Cross Country Championships which takes place in Velenje, Slovenia on 11th of December. A European U23 Cross Country silver medallist in 2006, the 27-year-old athlete will be hoping to build on her 2010 achievements in Slovenia when she came
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