Mark Smyth landed the 100/200 double at the Leinster Schools track and field championships in Morton Stadium on Saturday. Smyth broke the tape in the 100 metres in 10.97, two tenths of a second ahead of David McDonnell of CBS Wexford. In the 200 metres Smyth brought the gold medal home in 21.73 seconds this time with a larger stride over McDonald coming home in 22.33 seconds. Hugh Flood (Belvedere…
Mick Boyle won the Malahide in 16 minutes 56 seconds, with Dean Keogh 20:47, Steven Rowe 23:32 also competing. Brian Leahy won the St. Annes Park race, although there are some notable questions on his finishing time! Steve Reeves took seventh place in 18 minutes 24 seconds with Dave Woods eighth 18:31 and Declan Robinson ninth in 18:34. Other runners in St. Annes Park were Gearoid Healy 19:04, Peter Smyth…
Brian Fay landed the Leinster Schools Senior Boys 2,000 metre steeplechase on a balmy afternoon in Morton Stadium. Belvedere College student Fay, showed a turn of pace to move away from silver medallist Philip Marron of Ratoath College coming home for victory in six minutes 11 point 31 seconds. Some three seconds clear of second placed Marron with Eoghan Keaney of Terenure College taking the bronze medal in 6:30.04. Day…
Mick Clohisey was just piped for the Terenure Five mile title as Peter Brandon-Somba winning out by just two seconds. Clohisey second place along with Cillian O’Leary’s fifth place set up the senior men for team victory with the master’s women team also taking gold. Clohisey clocked 24 minutes and 10 seconds for victory just two seconds behind Dunboyne’s Brandon-Somba. Cilian O’Leary took fifth place in 25:51. Ciaran McCarthy took 16th…