To start out the week Lindie Naughton brings us all of the Irish endurance motion and information from the weekend simply gone (Monday fifteenth July).
Cathal Doyle (Clonliffe Harriers) made it a fantastic evening for the host membership when profitable the Morton Mile in sensational model on the Morton Video games, in Santry on Friday night.
American customer and former winner Prakel had led via 1500m, with Brian Fay (Raheny Shamrock) third and Doyle again in tenth place. All modified within the chase for the road, Doyle charging via the sector after which stretching away from Prakel and Fay to win in a private finest time 3:52.06.
Prakel was second in 3:52.32 and Fay third in 3:52.41. Simply three days earlier, Doyle had completed second within the mile on the Cork Metropolis Sports activities in 3:54.48, with Prakel third in 3:54.58.
Sean Donoghue (DCH) completed eighth in a private finest 3:55.71, having run 3:56.90 in Cork, Charlie O’Donovan (Leevale AC) eleventh in 3:57.94 and Cillian Kirwan (Raheny Shamrock) twelfth in 3:58.83. Of the fifteen finishers, 13 broke 4 minutes. Cathal O’Reilly (Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers) was simply exterior that mark with a time of 4:00.93 in fourteenth place and Efrem Gidey (Clonliffe Harriers) fifteenth in 4:04.26.
Photograph: James Rhodes
In the ladies’s 1500m, newly-crowned Irish champion Sophie O’Sullivan (Ballymore Cobh) completed second in 4:05.77, with Carla Sweeney (Rathfarnham WSAF) tenth in 4:15.74 and Georgie Hartigan (Dundrum South Dublin) eleventh in 4:15.74. In Cork, O’Sullivan had appeared nicely off her finest when ending twelfth within the girls’s 3000m in 9:08.66.
In Italy two days after Santry, O’Sullivan improved her 800m finest by greater than a second to 2:00.28 when ending fifth in a race in Lignano.
Over 5000m, Nick Griggs (CNDR TC) caught to Amos Langat from Kenya within the ultimate phases of the race was was rewarded with a brand new Irish U23 file of 13:12.07. Langat received in 13:12.44, which was a meet file by over seven seconds. Cormac Dalton (Mullingar Harriers) was tenth in 13:44.82, Sean Tobin (Clonmel AC) eleventh in 13:51.58 and Keelan Kilrehill (Sligo AC) twelfth in 13:53.03.
It was a second Irish U23 file for Griggs — in Cork, he had clocked 7:41.68 within the 3000m, knocking over eleven seconds off his earlier finest.
18 February 2024; Louise Shanahan of Leevale AC, Cork, crosses the end line to win the senior girls’s 800m ultimate throughout day two of the 123.ie Nationwide Senior Indoor Championships on the Sport Eire Nationwide Indoor Enviornment in Dublin. Photograph by Tyler Miller/Sportsfile
In the ladies’s 800m, Louise Shanahan (Leevale) confirmed a welcome return to type when completed third in a season’s finest 2:00.92. Jenna Bromell (Emerald AC) was eighth in 2:01.89.
Successful the junior males’s mile was Sean Quinn of host membership Clonliffe Harriers in 4:21.26. Quinn’s Clonliffe clubmate Lorcan Benjacar completed second in 4:21.67 and Jamie Byrne (Dundrum South Dublin) third in 4:22.25.
Different outcomes from the Cork Metropolis Sports activities included an eleventh place for Íde Nic Dhomhnaill (West Limerick AC) in the 3000m with a time of 9:08.65.
Massive win for Adeleke in Monaco
Overseas, Rhasidat Adeleke (TallaghtC) proved the category of the sector within the girls’s 400m on the Diamond League spherical in Monaco profitable in 49.17 secs. It was a primary Diamond League win for Adeleke. Within the 2,000m, Ciara Mageean (Metropolis of Lisburn) completed tenth in 5:43.06.
Santry was the venue over the weekend for the All Eire Mixed Occasions Championships, mixed with the AI Open Video games and some nationwide senior and masters championship occasions, largely notably the women and men’s 10,000m championships.
Winnign the ladies’s 10,000m title in 33 minutes 37.49 secs was Shona Heaslip (An Ríocht) adopted by Claire Fagan (Mullingar Harriers) in 34:378.20, and Laura Mooney (Tullamore Harriers) in 34:50.81. Simply 4 had entered the race.
Emmet Jennings (Dundrum South Dublin) received the boys’s race in 31:31.16, with Kieran Kelly (Raheny Shamrock) second in 31:46.87 and David Scanlon (Rathfarnham WSAF ) third in 31:47.94 In the open races, U23 athlete Roise Roberts (CNDR TC) received the ladies’s 3000m in 9:55.13; whereas Barry Conway (Ennis TC) proved quickest of the boys with 8:39.33.
Successful the boys’s 1500m was Cathal O’Reilly (Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers) in 3:51.34. Within the girls’s 1500m, Sadhbh Mohan (Metro St Brigid’s) was the winner in 4:37.70, with Rebecca Rossiter (CNCR TC) a detailed second in 4:37.97.
BHAA on Monitor
New to the calendar final weekend was the BHAA monitor races, with 4 graded mile races and a combined 4 x 400m relay held on the Lucan monitor on Wednesday (July 10).
Quickest occasions of the night got here within the second race the place Alex O’Brien, a member of Lucan Harriers was the winner in 4 minutes 51 secs. Second was grasp athlete Michael Counsel (Musgrave/Trim AC) in 4.54, with Ryan Rafter additionally breaking 5 minutes when ending third in 4:49. Laura Ryan (Rathfarnham WSAF) was quickest lady with a time of 5:24, with Orla Gormley (Aer Lingus/Raheny Shamrock, W50) clocking 6:25.
Roads
Hugh Armstrong (Ballina AC) led house 2,682 finishers at the Irish Life Fingal 10km, held in Swords on Sunday (July 14) . With a time of 29 minutes 39 secs, Armstrong had over a minute to spare on the chasers led by Jamie Fallon (Craughwell AC) who completed second in 30:45 and Peter Somba (Ratoath AC) third in 30:58.
First lady was Michelle Finn (Leevale C in 34:47. Caitlyn Harvey (Roadrunners AC Belfast) was second in 35:40 and Kate Purcell (Raheny Shamrock) third and first W40 in 35:50.
On the identical morning, in Co Offaly, the Peugeot Race Sequence continued at the Frank Kilrane Edenderry 10-Mile the place Conor Duffy (Glaslough Harriers) was a cushty winner in 50 minutes 28 secs.
For Dundrum South Dublin, Eanna O Bradaigh was second in 53:37, Killian Mooney third in 53:21 and junior athlete Declan O’Meara eighth in 54:46.
Heather Murphy (St Michael’s AC) was first lady in 59:35, adopted by Sorcha McAllister (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) in 60:38 and Sarah Mulligan (Dundrum South Dublin) third in 61:22.
With Maria McCambridge eighth and first W45, and Emma Goddard 18th, DSD was clear winners of the combined crew class forward of Tullamore Harriers and Dublin Metropolis Harriers, with twenty-four groups entered, together with 5 from Tullamore Harriers alone.
DSD additionally took the boys’s crew class, forward of Mullingar Harreirs and Tullamore Harriers, whereas Tullamore proved better of the ladies’s groups forward of Naomh Mhuire AC and Ferbane AC.
The race was spherical 7 of the Peugeot Race Sequence. Two rounds stay, each of them in Co Cork. It was additionally a part of the Offaly Endurance Sequence with Mick Fogarty (Ferbane AC, M45) the winner in that class and Maria Maher (Ballyskenach AC, W40) first lady.
Multi-tasking victory for Wogan
In Termonfeckin, Co Louth, Ronan Wogan (Raheny Shamrock, M40) was the winner of the Termonfeckin Half Marathon in a time of 76:15. First lady was Karen Wilton (Jog Lisburn, W50) in 88:17. Wogan managed to run the race — and likewise to time it, which should be some sort of file! Danny Nugent (Ace AC) received the 4-Mile in 21:12 with Mags Nugent first lady in 28:12.
Robin Mooney (Sliabh Bhuidhe Rovers AC) in 34:17 and Aoibhe McCarthy (Kilcoole AC) in 43.24 had been the winners at the By no means Give Up Charity 10km, held at Inch, Gorey, Co Wexford. Pádraig Webb (Tinryland AC) in 16:36 and Sarah Fitzpatrick in 21:19 proved finest within the 5km.
At the Docklands 5km in Dublin on Thursday (July 11), Peter Somba (Ratoath AC) raced to victory in 15 minutes 2 secs, adopted by Dylan Wright (Lucan Harriers) in 15:14 and Raheny pair Michael Brady in 15:19 and David Rooney in 15:23. Eighth and first grasp was Shane O’Neill (Rathfarnham WSAF, M50) in 15:54.
First lady in 16:46 was Ciara Wilson (DMP AC) adopted by Sorcha McAllister (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) second in 17:01 and Lucy Barrett (Raheny Shamrock ) third in 17:22.
Successful each women and men’s crew titles was Raheny Shamrock with the boys adopted house by Sportsworld and Rathfarnham WSAF and ladies holding off Sportsworld and Dublin Metropolis Harriers.
Within the company crew competitors, Citco, led by Michael Brady, proved better of fifty-three males’s groups entered. Better of the ladies’s groups by a single second was Optum Workforce 1, with Photo voltaic Speedsters second; twenty-three groups had signed up. Successful the combined crew class was KPMG with forty-seven groups entered.
Martin Cox was the winner of the Oldcastle 5km, Co Meath, on Wednesday (July 10) in a time of 16:05. First lady in 19:55 was Edel Carberry (Garristown Flyers), Carol Dempsey (Civil Service Harriers) was first W50 in 22:33, along with her her club-mate Sharon McGrane third W50 in 23:04.
Nathan O’Leary, winner of the Tracton four-mile in a course file of 20:23, receiving his prize from Cyril Walsh, Chairperson, Tracton AC. Photograph: John Walshe
Document in Munster by John Walshe
A brand new course file and an elevated entry of virtually 300 marked the third Tracton four-mile which occurred round a hilly circuit close to Carrigaline, Co Cork.
Nathan O’Leary —at 22 one of many rising Leevale stars beneath the steerage of coach Donie Walsh -— knocked seven seconds off of the earlier finest held by Pat Hennessy when coming house first in 20:23.
It was Leevale all the way in which, as Gavin O’Rourke, winner of two latest BHAA races, took second in 20:33 with Mark Walsh, the race holder, third in 20:56. For good measure, Donal Coakley got here house fourth in 21:25.
Leevale additionally supplied the ladies’s winner with Hannah Steeds following up on her latest successes exterior the county with victory in 23:40. Noémie Leduc of Grange-Fermoy was second in 24:32 with W50 Linda Kelly from Watergrasshill third in 25:58.
The Tracton membership celebrates it seventieth birthday this yr and the occasion was a credit score to all involved. Nicely signposted, a prize checklist which lined all classes, ample refreshments and with a memento T-shirt for all pre-entries, it supplied distinctive worth for €15.
Photograph Credit: © WMRA- Marco Gulberti
Mountain Working
Ian Conroy (Raheny Shamrock, M40 ) was the one Irish consultant at the World Cup Montemuro Vertical Run, in Castro Daire, Portugal on Sunday. Conroy completed twenty fifth in 1 hrs 5 minutes 45 secs.
Every week earlier, Conroy had completed thirty sixth and fourth M40 at the Grossglockner World Cup spherical in Heilingenblut, Austria, with Killian Mooney (Dundrum South Dublin) one place behind in thirty seventh place with a time of 1:30.06. A staggering complete of 689 completed this traditional and extremely powerful uphill race, some taking nicely over 4 and a half hours to take action.
Domestically, Luke Weldon (Greystones AC) got here house first at the Reeks Skyline race at Carrauntoohill in Co Kerry on Saturday (July 13) with a time of 4 hrs 26 minutes 20 secs for the 24km route with 2,400m of climb.
A detailed second in 4:26:39 was orienteer Ben Mangan, whereas third in 4:38:17 was Gavin Byrne. Ninth general and first lady was Ellen Vitting from Kenmare in 5:03:18. Anita Locke was second in 5:19:45 and Sorcha Kearney third in 5:45.02; each are members of .St Finbarr’s AC.
