Eric Favors broken his own Irish indoor shot put record with a superb throw of 20.16m finishing third in a top class field in Germany on Sunday. Favors becomes the first Irish athlete to throw over 20 meters indoors for the shot put. This is an improvement on 19.99 metres thrown by Travers on January 20th. Favors had also posted a new record of 20.03 metres with his first throw…
Mick Clohisey took second place at the Trim 10 mile on Sunday, clocking 49 minutes 55 seconds. Yared Derese won out in 49.04. Clohisey was followed home by a very large Raheny contingent; Wes O’Brien 55:20, Robert Frewen 56:51, Ian McConkey 58:21, Colm Dunne 60:40, Siobhan Eviston 61:21, Will Walsh 62:24. Gareth Hogan 64:47, Peter Rogan 66:02, Keith Fleming 65:51, Ruairi McArdle 66:11, Terry Keogh 67:05, Gearoid Healy 67:33, Dave…
Another good day for the club at the national masters indoor championships. Annette Kealy took gold in the W55 3,000m clocking 10:46.03 with fourth place going to Orla Gormley in 12:20.63. Adrienne Atkins third W55 in 1500m 5:42.63. Atkins also took silver in 800m in 2:43.80. Niall Power third M45 1500 4:53.56 In the men’s 800m M50 Paul Curtayne posted 2:41.02 for sixth place. Curtayne also took fourth place in…
Another dramatic weekend on the track as Brian Fay and Niamh Kearney set new indoor club records. Brian Fay set a new club 3,000m record clocking 7:43.85 for sixth place at the New Balance meet in Boston. At the same meet Iseult O’Donnell posted 2:04.81 over 800m. Fay was just three seconds off race winner Woody Kincaid in 7:40.71. While Niamh Kearney posted 4:21.30 taking fourth place at the IFAM…