Wednesday night saw two club records broken at the Night of sprints at St. Mary Peter’s track in Belfast. Cillian Kirwan set a new club 800 metre record when he finished second in 1:46.87, John Fitzsimons of Kildare won out in 1:46.82 with European U20 1500m champion Cian McPhillips third in 1:47.83. Mark Smyth set a new club 200 metre record when he won out in 20.91 seconds ahead of…
Please note the 2020 Joe Noonan Cup will now take place on Sunday September 26th at 11am. This race has been rescheduled from it’s proposed date in August as to move it to a more traditional date in the road racing calendar. A new course has been designed for the 2020 Joe Noonan Cup and the race will now be held over 10 kilometres. From this race going forward there…
Keith Fleming won the 2020 Brian Holland Cup which was held on it’s original course in Raheny tonight, some 16 months after it was originally scheduled. The Holland Cup is the longest running road race in the club’s history and since first held in 1959 has been ran as a sealed handicap. Keith Fleming satisfied the handicapper to lift the Brian Holland Cup. Second place went to Dave O’Hara with…
Sophie Becker and the Irish 4x400m Mixed Relay team put in another stellar performance at the Olympic Stadium as they finished eighth in their final. This was the first time an Irish relay team had ever qualified for an Olympic relay final and they recorded a time of 3:15.04, the second fastest ever by an Irish quartet. The team lined up with the same personnel as the qualifying round, and…