To start out the week Lindie Naughton brings us all of the Irish endurance motion and information from the weekend simply gone (Monday eighth July).
Sarah Healy (UCD AC) made a large enchancment to her 1500m private finest time when working in one of many biggest ladies’s 1500m races of all time at the Paris Diamond League on Sunday (July 7).
Up entrance, Religion Kipyegon improved on her personal world document time when successful in 3:49.04, bettering on the three:49.11 she set final 12 months when turning into the primary girl to interrupt 3:50 for the gap. Jessica Hull set an Australian document when ending second in 3:50.83, whereas Scotland’s Laura Muir in third place improved the British document to three:53:79.
Healy’s time of three:57.26 for seventh place knocked over two seconds off her earlier finest of three:59.58 and places her second on the all-time record behind Ciara Mageean; Mageean was additionally racing in Paris, ending tenth in a season’s finest 3:58.69.
Picture: James Rhodes
Aside from Mageean, whose Irish document of better of 3:55.87 was set in Brussels final September, the one different Irish girl to have damaged 4 minutes is Sonia O’Sullivan who ran 3:58.85 in July 1995 — now relegated to the third quickest ever Irish time. Pacemakers introduced the sphere by means of 800m in 2:03.30, with twelve of the 13 finishers breaking 4 minutes.
At the FBK Video games, in Hengelo, the Netherlands, additionally on Sunday, Andrew Coscoran (Star of the Sea AC) completed eleventh within the males’s 1000m with a time of two:23.29, nicely off his better of PB 2:19.2.
Elsewhere in Paris, Efrem Gidey (Clonliffe Harriers) was working at the ‘Quick Meet’ on Saturday (July 6) the place his time of 13:23.83 for seventeenth place within the 5000m was a private finest. Subsequent up for Gidey is Friday evening’s Morton Video games. On the identical evening, Ciara Mageean competes over the weird distance of 2000m and Rhasidat Adeleke over 400m on the Monaco Diamond League meet.
A giant day for DSD
Regionally, Dundrum South Dublin AC completed high of the desk in each women and men’s classes at the All-Eire Monitor and Area League qualifier held on the TUS monitor in Athlone on Saturday (July 6).
DSD are the defending ladies’s champions, and might be going for a twelfth title total when finals day takes place on Sunday July 28 in Tullamore.
The Dublin membership completed comfortably away from St Laurence O’Toole AC. Additionally within the high eight had been Ratoath AC, Clonliffe Harriers, Lagan Valley, Raheny Shamrock, Lagan Valley, Leevale and Finn Valley who will now compete within the premier division remaining.
Behind DSD within the males’s classification and making the premier division had been Nenagh Olympic, Ratoath, defending champions Leevale, Ratoath, many instances champions Clonliffe Harriers, Waterford, Finn Valley and Tir Chonaill.
DSD completed high of the desk by accumulating strong factors throughout the all of the disciplines together with with many athleteslining out in unfamiliar occasions to choose up important factors. Torrential rain made situations troublesome for each athletes and officers. Within the county division, defending champions Galway topped the lads’s desk forward of Tipperary and Louth, with Tipperary better of the ladies forward of. Kerry and Galway.
Robust outcomes elsewhere
At the BMC Grand Prix, in Birmingham on Saturday (July 6), Nadia Energy (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) gained the ladies’s B 800m in 2:06. 07. Within the males’s G 1500m, Kieron Sexton (Crusaders) was the winner in 3:58.60, with Michael McCarthy (DSD AC) second in 3:59.49. Within the males’s B 3000m, Kieran Kelly (Raheny Shamrock, M35) completed eighth in 8:19.44.
Finn Woodger (Metro/St Brigid’s AC) produced the quickest males’s time within the 1500m at the sixth Dublin Graded Meet held in Santry on Wednesday (July 3).
Within the second of two grade A races, Woodger completed in 3:54.9. Liam Donohoe (UCD AC) was second in 3:59.0. Donore junior Rhys Johnson gained the B race in 4:09.86. A complete of seven males’s 1500m races happened.
Profitable the ladies’s grade A 1500m was Fiona Hawkins (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) in 4:49.48. Second and first in grade B in 4:2.88 was Aisling Smith (Ballymena and Antrim AC).
Maura Lynskey (Raheny Shamrock AC) ending the Nora Arthur Charity 5km. Picture www.myrunresult.com
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James Hyland and Siobhan Eviston, each members of native membership Raheny Shamrock AC, had been the winners of the Nora Arthur Charity 5km in St Anne’s Park, Raheny on Sunday (July 7). Hyland completed in15:51 and Eviston sixth total in 18:01.
On the fourth annual Mooreabbey 10-Mile, in Galbally Co Tipperary, St Finbarr’s AC made it a double with Barry Twohig the winner in 54:07 and Irene Eighan first girl in 67:11.
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In Dungannon, Co Tyrone, on the the Nice Rossa Run Half Marathon, Pete Tuohy (Attempt RC) was the winner in 75:29, with the ageless Tommy Hughes third and first over 60 in 77:21. First girl in 88:36 was Louise Smith (North Belfast Harriers, W50).
Within the 10km, the winners had been Aidan O’Hagan (Attempt RC) in 35:12 and Assumpta O’Neill (Tafelta AC) in 41:34. Odhran Rafferty (North Belfast Harriers) was the winner of the 5km in 17:41 with Jennifer Martin (Tafelta AC) first girl in 18:41.
Wayne Waldron was the winner of the Bear Races organised Clontarf Half Marathon in Dublin main dwelling an astonishing 3,157 finishers in a time of 74:57. First girl was Clare Talty in 86:44.
An additional 1,160 accomplished the 5-mile run, with Eoin Maguire (Clonliffe Harriers) main them dwelling in 28:19 and Eimear O’Neill first girl in 31:50.
On a busy Friday night, Aaron Smith (Cilles AC) and David Rooney (Raheny Shamrock) battled it out to the top at the Bettystown B5 5km in Co Meath, with Smith the winner in 15:26 and Rooney two seconds behind for second in 15:28. Third and first M40 in 16:20 was Colin Leonard (Drogheda and District AC).
First girl was Laura McDonnell (Rathfarnham WSAF AC), W40) in 17:20, with Barbara Cleary (Donore Harriers, W50) second in17:25 and Sinead McDonald (Glenmore AC) third in 17:48.
At the Mick Murphy Memorial 5km, in Ferns, Co Wexford on the identical evening, Ferrybank AC took the highest the three locations with Andrew Connick the winner in 16:01, adopted by Craig O’Brien second in 16:09 and David Cullinane in 16:17; Cullinane was additionally first M40. Myles Gibbons of host membership Sliabh Bhuidhe Rovers AC was ninth and first M50 in 16:39. First M60 was Tommy Payne (Tinryland AC) in 17:42.
Within the ladies’s race, Sheila O’Byrne was first girl in 17:16 and Catherine O’Connor second and first W40 in 18:28, each from Slí Cualann. Nicola Moorehouse (Slaney Olympic) was third in18:49
Winners at the Rhode 5km, spherical 7 of the Offaly 5km Street Races Sequence, had been junior Jack Donegan (Tullamore Harriers)in 15:39 and Evelyn Coughlan (Le Chéile AC) in 17:50
Lastly, Aidan Connell (West Waterford AC, M40 ) was the winner with a time of 34:26 at the Deise School Dungarvan 10km in Co Waterford. First girl was Kealey Tideswell (Clonmel AC, W40) in 36:53.
Earlier within the week
William Maunsell (Clonmel AC) proved the category of the sphere at the Coillte 10km in Dundrum, Co Tipperary on Thursday(July 4), breaking away early and ending in 30 minutes 14 seconds.
A gaggle of six behind him battled it out for the minor placings, with Peter Somba (Ratoath AC) out-sprinting Joshua Burgess (Lewes AC) to completed second in 30:56; Lewes was only one second behind in 30:57.
First girl in 34:46 was Niamh O’Mahony (An Ríocht AC) winner on the Willie Neenan 5-mile in Millstreet per week earlier. Native athlete Dymphna Ryan (Dundrum AC, W40) was second in 35:53, together with her clubmate Linda Grogan third in 40:00. A complete of 304 accomplished this in style race.
Winners at the Rooskey GAA 5km in Co Roscommon on the identical evening had been Seamus Somers (Sligo AC, M50) in 16:29 and Cliona Murphy (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) who was third and first girl in 17:06.
Munster Operating by John Walshe
Cork BHAA continued its summer time programme with the Sterling 5km on Wednesday evening (July 3). Though identify of the corporate could have modified from Novartis to Sterling, the circuit at Ringaskiddy stays the identical because it has been since this race started again in 1998.
It boasts spectacular course information with the quickest instances standing to Hiko Tonosa at 14:31 from 2019 and 16:35 to Laura Crowe from 2013.
On a chilly and windy evening, Gavin O’Rourke (Eli Lilly) did simply sufficient to win, together with his time of 16:22 giving him six seconds to spare over his Leevale colleague, Aidan Noone, who was representing the Dept of Schooling. In third, a second behind in 16:29, was M50 super-vet Vivian Foley (Owenabue Medical Centre).
Clare native Sharon Rynne (Kepak) was the ladies’s winner in 19:09 from junior athlete Ella Collins (Collins), 19:30, with Linda O’Sullivan (HSE) taking third spot in 19:42.
On Thursday evening (July 4), the annual Corkbeg 4-mile happened at Whitegate, organised by East Cork AC.
Making her debut within the race, Rebecca McEvoy of St Finbarr’s positioned fourth total and first girl, recording a private better of 24:13. In evening for the household, Rebecca’s dad Eamonn simply gained the M65 award together with his time of 26:49.
Second within the ladies’s race was Tamzin Muldowney (East Cork) in 24:47 with third place going to Sandra Manning (Leevale) in 25:03.
Two athletes from the selling membership, Tony Forristal and James McCarthy, dominated the race upfront with Kilkenny native Forristal coming dwelling a transparent winner in 20:29.
McCarthy, final 12 months’s winner, confirmed his latest lack of racing as his time of 21:33 was nearly a minute slower than twelve months in the past. There was an identical hole to third-placed Seamus O’Gorman, an unattached runner, who completed in 23:12.
Six hours earlier than Sunday’s All-Eire hurling semi-final between Limerick and Cork, the village of Galbally – dwelling of Limerick supervisor John Kiely – welcomed simply over 100 runners to the Mooreabbey 10-mile.
In a foretaste of what was to come back in Croke Park, victory went to 2 Cork runners, Barry Twohig and Irene Eighan, each from St Finbarr’s.
Twohig, 45, latest winner at Donoughmore and working 2:31:01 on the Cork Metropolis Marathon a month in the past, recorded 54:07 with Dermot Gorman of Carrick-on-Suir second in 54:46.
John Meade, additionally St Finbarr’s, second twelve months in the past and third the 12 months earlier than, needed to accept third once more in a time of 55:00.
Irene Eighan’s successful time was 67:11 together with her club-mate Anita Locke second in 68:45 and Lisa Crowley taking third spot in 69:47.
First M70 in 67:58 was Joe Gough (West Waterford AC) higher often known as a masters monitor athlete over significantly shorter distances. What number of M70s can beat their very own age in a ten-mile race?
Extremely-running
Sorcha Loughnane (Donore Harriers, W40) completed fourth total and first first girl at the Serpent’s Path 100km. The course ran from Haslemere to Petersfield within the South Downs Nationwide Park located in Hampshire, England.
Loughnane’s time was 9:38.46.
