Sean Dowling took fifth place in the men’s 200m’s A1 race at the Dublin graded in Santry on Wednesday night posting 23.22 seconds, writes Niall Power. In the B1 race Philip O’Gorman took fourth place 25.14 seconds. In the women’s B race Hannah Byrne won out in 26.74 seconds. While Adrienne Atkins took sixth place in the C race in 31.36 Andrew Hyland finished fifth in the men’s A1 1500m…
Sean Maher finished a very respectable 13th at the European Youth Olympic festival in Baku this morning. Hammer thrower Maher took 13th place with a best throw of 56.48 metres, outside his personal best. “I’m severely disappointed and I knew I could perform a lot better than 56m” explained Maher, that’s 12m off what I know what I can throw.” “But when you’re here you need to compete with the…
Mick Clohisey just missed out on the South Dublin 10K title on Sunday. There was a headwind for the first 5km with Raheny man Clohisey taking on the early pace before Pollock made a surge of speed to break away from the leading pack. Clohisey’s long-time sparring partner Paul Pollock clocked 29 minutes 28 seconds for victory some 18 second clear of Clohisey with DSD’s Hiko Tanosa third in 30:03….
Michael Farrelly was part of the Irish team who just missed out on the European Under-20 final on Sunday morning. The quartet of Farrelly, Conor Morey, Aaron Sexton and David Murphy posted 40.47 seconds finishing third in their heat just outside the qualifying time. Congratulations to Michael on becoming the sixth Raheny Shamrock athlete to compete in the European junior/U-20 track and field championship. Best wishes to all members of…