Charlotte Wingfield set a new club 200m indoor record when winning gold at the Leinster championship on Saturday. Wingfield posted 24.57 seconds for victory and a new club record. Wingfield had won her heat in 24.67 seconds. Wingfield also took silver in the 60m sprint in 7.85 seconds. In the masters Paul Curtayne took silver in the M50 1500m in 5:31.05 and also took 800m silver in 2:37.14. Gary Aylward…
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…
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…