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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Fionnuala Britton of Kicoole AC ran a very impressive season opener to finish sixth in the very competitive VIII Cross de Atapuerca in Burgos, Spain on Sunday. The race was won by former World 10,000m champion and multiple World Cross medallist Linet Masai, with Britton the first European across the line when completing the 7.8km
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Deirdre Ryan was named as the Athlete of the Year at the National Athletics Awards on Saturday night. Ryan’s sixth place finish at the World Championships was the standout performance by an Irish athlete at major championships this season. Her season best of 1.95m set a new Irish record and also secured the qualification standard
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The big Irish performance of the day at the Dublin Marathon belonged to Linda Byrne who achieved the London 2012 Olympic standard running 2:36.21 ( standard is 2:37 ) This was the highlight performance of twenty five year old Linda Byrne’s athletic career to date and the DSD runner ran a well-planned race where good pace judgement
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Mark Kenneally (Clonliffe Harriers AC) has achieved the qualification standard for the Olympic Games in London, running a time of 2:13.55 to finish 18th in the Amsterdam Marathon. The Kildare man said: “I am delighted to have achieved the time, I knew I was in shape but it is another thing to actually produce the result”
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