Niamh Fogarty took discus silver at the English under-23 championship in Bedford on Saturday proudly wearing the Raheny singlet in England. Fogarty throwing 50.99 metres. Fogarty was just 1.29 metres off gold won by Divine Oladipo and some four metres clear of bronze. Elsewhere Mick Clohisey took second place in the Dunshaughlin 10k just one second behind DSD’s Hiko Tanosa. Tanosa winning out in 29 minutes 30 seconds with Clohisey…
Brian Fay set a new club 3,000m steeplechase record when he finished sixth at the Folksam GP in Sollentuna, Denmark tonight. Fay posted eight minutes 45.60 seconds, smashing Ben Brady’s 27-year-old club record of 8:54.30. The result moves Fay to 13th in the All-time Irish rankings. The race was won outright by Australia’s Ben Buckingham in 8:31.38.
Place Name Club Cat Time 1 Stephen Butler Dublin Bay Runners MS 10.27 2 Liam Barry Carroll Southampton MS 10.33 3 Brian Sexton Raheny Shamrock MS 11.01 4 Terry Keogh Raheny Shamrock M45 11.02 5 Ken Nolan Unattached M35 11.16 6 Valetine Scheuwly Switzerland MS 11.17 7 Derek Nolan Raheny Shamrock M35 11.18 8 Mick Traynor Raheny Shamrock M50 11.23 9 James Cassidy Raheny Shamrock M35 11.26 10 Marc McSweeney…
Mick Clohisey landed the Irish runner five mile title and the new five mile national road championship in a comfortable 24 minutes and two seconds. Clohisey had some 50 seconds to spare on Ballyfin’s Colin Maher who took silver with DSD’s Emmet Jennings taking bronze in 25:04. Clohisey led the men’s team of Michael McMahon (25:30, Wesley O’Brien (27:39) and Robert Frewen to gold just 18 seconds clear of North…