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Orla Comerford came agonisingly close to a medal at the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris. Comerford clocked 12.22 for fourth place just 0.06 seconds off bronze. 100m T13 Gold went to Lamiya Valiyeva of Azerbaijan in 11.99. Spain’s Adiaratour Iglesias took silver on a photo fininsh behind Valiyeva with Bianca Borgella of Canada taking bronze. Proud coach @MickHynesRT with @orla_comerford after her final! 🙌🏻 pic.twitter.com/togr34u2S5 — Paralympics Ireland (@ParalympicsIRE)…

Orla Comerford powered into the 100m final at the Para-Athletics World Championships. Comerford posted a new personal best of 12.14 seconds in her heat to take third place and place in the 100m T13 final. Comerford’s final is set for the evening session on Monday July 10.

On Wednesday night, Kate Purcell won the Oldcastle 5km posting 17:38. While also running were Francesco Petroni 18:25, Brian McWeeney 19:43 and Gerard Fay 28:02. James Hyland was the first Raheny athlete home at Saturday’s Clontarf half-marathon posting 1:18:45. Hyland was followed home by Jamie Shiels in 1:24:00. Maurice O’Brien 1:29:54, Gerard Curley 1:31:22, Peter McGoey 1:39:11, Hugh Cronin 1:42:32, Sorcha Delargy 1:48:08, Yann O’Heireamhoin 1:52:42, Bryan Woods 1:55:27, Brian…

At the Dublin graded meeting at DSD track last Wednesday Sharon Keilthy clocked 12:39.38 in the 3,000m C, D race. In the men’s A race Dylan O’Brien took ninth in 9:28.70. In the 800m C/D race Eimear O’Keeffe posted 2:52.69 and Sharon Keilthy 2:53.95. Caleb Long won the men’s C race clocking 2:06.32. Paul Curtayne posted 2:44.03 in the D race. In the field, Rachel Arnold Martin took fourth place…