Garristown, north county Dublin was the place to be this Sunday morning when local club Garristown Flyers put on their annual promotion The Windmill 5K and 10K runs. This year’s 10K incorporated the Dublin 10K road men’s Championship (the Women’s equivalent will take place in the Women’s mini-marathon on the June weekend). Eight Raheny men toed the line on a challenging undulating course. The sun shone brightly in the clear…
Sophie Becker helped team Ireland to a national 4x400m relay record on day of the World indoor championships in Belgrade. Becker put Ireland just outside the qualifying mark of second place at the first hand-over with Roisin Harrison (Emerald AC), Sharlene Mawdsley (Newport AC) and Phil Healy (Bandon AC) unable to secure qualification. The Irish team did post a new national indoor record of 3:30.97 to take third place in…
Some very good performances at the national juvenile indoor championships in AIT this weekend. In the girls U16 200m, Isable Twomey clocked 28.47 seconds in heat two. While in the U17 girls 400m Siomha Magee posted 66.39 in heat two. In the U13 600 metres Vivienne Lee clocked 1:49.32 in heat one and in heat two Maggie Foley posted 1:48.44. While in the U16 girls high jump Ella Keyes posted…
Sophie Becker made history on Friday morning becoming the first Raheny Shamrock athlete to compete in the World indoor championships in Belgrade. Olympian Becker posted 53.47 seconds in heat three of the 400 metres to finish fourth in her race. In a very competitive championship just the first two advance to the semi-finals. A great performance and achievement none the less for Becker who had her early season disrupted by…