The Raheny Shamrock men’s team took sixth place at the National indoor league final at National Indoor arena today The men went into the final ranked seventh and collected three wins in total. Mark Smyth saw off Colin Doyle of Leevale to win the 60m’s in 6.83 seconds. Juan Ignacino Pena won the 1500m in 3:52.78 comfortably ahead of John Travers in 3:57.54. Colm Bourke won the triple jump with…
Niamh Kearney took fifth place in the Armagh international 3k posting nine minutes 14 seconds. Alexandra Bell (England) won out in 9:02 with Cari Hughes (Wales) second in 9:03. Third place went to Cali Thackery in 9:12. Fourth place was Megan Davies in 9:13 with Kearney fifth a second behind. In the men’s international 5K, Kieran Kelly posted 14 minutes 14 seconds. Henry McLuckie won the international race in 13:37.
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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…