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Constructing to the Olympics – Irish round-up

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To begin the week Lindie Naughton brings us all of the Irish endurance motion and information from the weekend simply gone (Tuesday twenty third July).

Keelan Kilrehill (Moy Valley) higher often called a observe and cross-country runner was a transparent winner of the Irish Runner 10-mile within the Phoenix Park on Sunday (July 21) with a sub-50 minute time.

Though Phoenix Park programs should not recognized for quick instances, Kilrehill completed in 49 minutes 56 secs, properly over a minute away from  Gerry Forde (Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers) in 51:11 and Jamie Fallon (Craughwell AC) a detailed third in 51:12.

First lady in 56:58 was Grace Lynch (Dundrum South Dublin AC), with junior athlete Heather Murphy (St Michael’s AC) second in 59:29 and Fiona Roche (Raheny Shamrock, W0) third in 60:68.

The race included an Irish Championships and successful the senior males’s workforce title was Clane AC, adopted by Raheny Shamrock and Armagh AC. Profitable the ladies’s workforce title had been the Raheny ladies.  Donore Harriers was second and Dunboyne AC third.

Raheny additionally took the M35 workforce title with Rathfarnham WSAF second and Crusaders third.Within the W35 age group Crusaders AC was the winner forward of Sportsworld and Mullingar Harriers third.  Better of the M50 groups was Grange Fermoy, with Inishowen second and Raheny Shamrock third. Celbridge AC received the W50 title forward of Brothers Pearse and Lucan Harriers.

Making it a senior workforce double had been the Raheny ladies, with Fiona Roche, Ciara Brady and Maria Dolan the scoring three. Donore Harriers was second and Dunboyne AC third. Raheny had been additionally winners within the M35 class,  with Rathfarnham WSAF  second and Crusaders third. Within the W35 age group Crusaders took the title forward of Raheny Shamrock and Rathfarnham WSAF.

Within the M35 age group Crusaders AC was the winner forward of Raheny Shamrock and Rathfarnham WSAF.  Better of the M50 groups was Grange Fermoy, with Inishowen second and Raheny Shamrock third. Celbridge AC received the W50 title forward of Brothers Pearse and Donore Harriers.

An entire bundle of street racing

John Travers (Donore Harriers) was the winner of the Sligo 5-Mile from Strandhill to Sligo City,  on Sunday (July 21) in a time of 24 minutes 1sec.  Ending second and third had been Sligo AC pair Matthew McMeekin  in 25:04 and Declan Brennan in 26:37. Fifth was first lady was Aoife Kilgallon, additionally Sligo AC, in 27:39. Second was Michelle Lannon (Carrick-on-Shannon AC, W50) in 30:48 with Mari Johnston (Sligo AC) third in 31:10.

Diarmuid O’Hanlon in 37 minutes 52 secs and Bridget Smit in 41:498 had been the winners at the Malahide Fortress 10km on Sunday (July 21).

Sean Doran (Clonliffe Harriers) in a time of 33 minutes 31 secs was the winner at the Dessie McGann Kiltale 10km in Co Meath on Saturday night (July 20) — his second win of the week. Sarah Dempsey was first lady in 44:18.

4 days earlier, Doran and Laura McDonnnell had been the winners at the South Dublin County Council 6km held round Dodder Valley Park, Firhouse Highway, Dublin on Tuesday (July 16)  and organised with the help of  North Clondalkin Operating Membership.

Doran (Harriers Merchandise/Clonliffe Harriers) was a transparent general winner of the race in 15 minutes 57 secs. Precisely a minute behind for second  in 16:57 was Kahumburka Tuahuku , whereas third in 17:09 was  Karl Mulligan. Paul Nagle was fourth and first M40 in 17:12.

McDonnell completed sixth general and first lady in 17.45 and was adopted house by Clare Sullivan (SCS ) in 18:55 and Sarah Hade in 21:09. Better of the ladies’s groups was BCM World’s trio of Rebecca Cuskelly, Sinead Lyons and Kasia Foksinska. Greatest in males’s grade 1 was the ESB trio of Dermot Shiels, Mick Quirke and Aidan Murphy, with Financial institution of Eire second. Profitable Grade 2 was Income.

Profitable the Portaferry 10-Mile the identical night had been Dale Murray (North Down AC) in 55 minutes 2 secs and Caroline MacNabb (East Down) in 61:57. Some seventy two-person groups had entered the relay with Flo Mada and Declan Magee the winners in 59:36.

Cork on the run with John Walshe 

The principles of the Cork BHAA meant that the primary man and lady throughout the road at the Gasoline Networks Eire 5km on Wednesday evening didn’t qualify for the general awards since neither Paul Moloney nor  Jennifer Martin was registered.

Former nationwide masters champion Moloney had a 12-second victory over Mark Walsh (Dept of Training), 15:10 to fifteen:22, with Kristan Liepins (Stryker) ending third in 15:34. Donal Coakley (Gilead Sciences) was fifth in 15:44 and took the third BHAA prize.

The ladies’s race noticed Martin, who recorded 18:12, and Tamzin Muldowney, 18:22, each dominated out as Sharon Rynne (Kepak) collected first prize along with her time of 18:32. Second and third BHAA went to Emma Desmond (Primeline Gross sales & Advertising) in 18:36 and Breeda McGinn (PFGI), 18:45.

On Friday evening, there was a fantastic line-up for the annual Bob Burke Fermoy 4-mile, organised by the Grange-Fermoy membership.  Ryan Creech (Leevale), winner of the 10km on the similar venue on New Yr’s Eve, knocked 25 seconds off of Sergio Ciobanu’s time of final yr when successful in 19:25.

Sean Doyle (Cork Metropolis), in his first race since operating 2 hrs 35 minutes on the Cork Metropolis Marathon, was second in 19:58 with Clonliffe’s Ciobanu having to accept third in 20:29.

Claire McCarthy of Leevale, who returned to racing after an extended lay-off with a 3rd within the 10km held together with the Cork Metropolis Marathon, continued her comeback with victory in 23:45.

Second was Linda O’Sullivan (Watergrasshill) in 24:56 with third going to junior athlete Emilie McElvaney from the marketing membership in 26:15.

At the Beast of Beara 20km in Allihies, Beara Peninsula, Co Cork on Saturday (July 20) , Michael Bolton was the winner in 1 hr 18 minutes 33 secs. Junior athlete Tommy Arthur (Lagan Valley AC) was second in 1:22.33 and Lianna van Dijk  third and first lady in 1:34:43.Fourth and first M50 was Joe O’Leary  in 1:36:20.

Picture: James Rhodes

Monitor and area

Irish athletes heading for the Olympics and Paralympics had been having a remaining run-out at Saturday’s  Diamond League London, with all three distance runners  setting private data.

Within the males’s 3000m, Brian Fay (Raheny Shamrock) ran 7:34.48 for seventh place knocking over two seconds off his earlier greatest; Fay runs the 5000m in Paris. Additionally operating was Nick Griggs (CNDR TC) who narrowly missed out on qualifying for Paris. Griggs completed tenth in an Irish U23 document 7:36.59 having run 7:41.68  in Cork  solely eleven days in the past

Within the mile, Andrew Coscoran (Star of the Sea), who will run the 1500m in Paris,  knocked nearly 5 seconds off  his earlier greatest when ending eighth in 3:50.49. That point catapults him into third place on the all-time Irish rankings behind solely Ray Flynn and Eamonn Coghlan.

Lastly within the 200m, 400m specialist Rhasidat Adeleke (Tallaght AC) completed fifth in a season’s  greatest 22.35 – only one hundredth of a second off her lifetime greatest.

As for the Paralympians, Shauna Bocquet (Craughwell AC) set new Irish document of 1:48.42 when ending fourth within the wheelchair 800m. Diamond League now takes a break till August 22 in Lausanne.

At the seventh Dublin Graded  Monitor and Area meet of the season held in Lucan on Wednesday (July 7), Fiona McKenna (UCD AC) received the ladies’s  grade A 3000m in 9:55.58. Second was Sorcha McAllister (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) in 9:59.59 whereas third in 10:02.09 was Barbara Cleary (Donore Harriers, W50) .

Within the males’s grade A 3000m, Aaron Donnelly (Dundrum South Dublin) was a transparent winner in 8:57.89. Jack McMahon (Ballyroan Abbeyleix and District) was second in 9:05.23 and John Cleary (Donore Harriers) third in 9:06.38.

Profitable the grade A ladies’s 800m in 2:06.78 was Iseult O’Donnell (Raheny Shamrock), with Maisy O’Sullivan (St Abban’s AC) second in 2:09.77 and Eve Marie Noctor (Lucan Harriers) third in 2:134.73.

In an exhilarating grade A males’s 800m, Finn Woodger (Metro St Brigid’s) simply nicked it from Dara Donoghue (Lucan Harriers) with the pair timed at 1:50.90 and 1:50.91.

A big entry throughout all of the age teams from beneath 20 to over 70 turned out for the the Louth Monitor and Area Championships on the Lourdes Stadium in Drogheda on Wednesday night (July 17) which additionally attracted friends from everywhere in the nation.

Grasp athletes had been utilizing the competitors as a part of their preparations for the World Masters Athletics Championships, going down in  Gothenburg, Sweden from Thursday August 13 to  Sunday August 25.

A type of was world W55 champion Anne Gilshinan of Slaney Olympic in Co Wexford, who just lately entered the W60 age group and clocked a time of 5:09.28 within the 1500m. Race winner was Abbie Sheridan (St Peter’s AC) in 4:41.85.

Within the males’s 1500m, Rory Mulholland  (North East Runners) proved quickest in 4:31.50, with Robbie Keane (Drogheda and District) third and first M40 in 4:40.30.

Main house an entry of twenty within the males’s 3000m was Mark Cornett (North Belfast Harriers) in 9:27.88; Robbie Keane was first M40 in 9:56.74. Bernie Balfe (Ardee, W40) received the ladies’s race in 13:08.33.

Mountain operating

A transparent winner of the 80km Glendalough Tucker Path race in Co Wicklow on Sunday (July 21)  was Enda Cloake (Slaney Olympic), who clocked a time of seven hours 42 minutes for the three-loop course in and round Glendalough.

Cloake had warmed up for the problem by successful the Leinster League spherical at Seahan on Wednesday night — a mere 9.98km, which he coated in 46 minutes 56 secs.

Ending second in Glendalough was Majiej Dzieledziak in 8 hrs 7 minutes, whereas third in 8 hrs 23 minutes was Giraud Sebastien. First lady in 9 hrs 30 minutes was Sarah Clarke. Catherine Devitt of Glendalough AC was second in 10 hrs 1 minute and Denise Barretts simply three minutes behind for third.

David Hicks (Newcastle and District AC, M40)  was the winner of the Spelga Skyline mountain race within the Mourne Mountains on Saturday (July 20). His time for the 21km course which takes in 9 summits for a complete climb of 1,550m,  was 2 hrs 59 minutes 29 secs.

Second in 3:08.42 was Paul McAnaspie ( Armagh AC, M50)  whereas third in 3:13:45 was Glynn Johnston (BARF, M45) Ending eighth and first lady was Esther Dickson (Newry AC) in 3:27:34. Second was Sam McNeilly (Newcastle and District) 4:18:36 whereas third was Shirley Farnan (BARF, W55) in 4:20:42.The race was a spherical of the NIMRA Championships.

In France, at the La Montée du Nid d’Aigle (20km, 1,850m) World Mountain Operating Cup spherical at  St Gervais, on Saturday (July 20), Ian Conroy (Raheny Shamrock); completed 61st and fifth M40 in a time of 1hr 18 minutes 48 secs for the  traditional 20km course with 1,850m of climb.

Caroline Ayton (Parnell AC) completed third W40 in 1:45:57, David McNeill in 1:48:49, Brian Hutchinson (UCD/Derg AC) in 2:03:19 and Thomas Brosnan in 2:06:18. A complete of 378 accomplished the race; circumstances had been heat.

A mountain of mountain operating this weekend

Better of the Irish at the Snowdon Worldwide mountain race on Saturday (July 20) was Paddy O’Leary who completed twelfth in a time of 1 hr 11 minutes 48 secs for the ten mile race up and down the best mountain in Wales. O’Leary was operating as a person.

Behind him in thirteenth and fourteenth locations had been Mathew McConnell and Zak Hanna, each of them representing the Republic of Eire. Their instances had been 1:12.35 and 1:12.51. For Hanna it was an emotional return to  the race after the current loss of life of his father.

First for Northern Eire in twenty sixth place was Ashley Crutchley in 1:14.42, adopted by Keith Johnston thirty sixth in 1:19.46.

Of the ladies, Jo Hickman Dunne was first for the Republic ending ninth of the elite area in 1:28.34 and Tanya Cumming,  in seventeenth place, greatest for Northern Eire in 1:35:32.

The Republic’s and Northern Irish groups completed fourth and fifth general in each women and men’s competitions. Total winner was Italy.

Eire has a proud document on this nice race which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary subsequent yr. Former world mountain operating champion John Lenihan received the race in 1989, whereas Robin Bryson’s document for the quickest time to the summit nonetheless stands.

In 2013, Sarah Mulligan turned the primary Irish lady to win the race, adopted a yr later by Sarah McCormack, who would win once more in 2015 and 2019, with Mulligan once more a winner in 2016. Glory days!



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