Colm Bourke and Eric Favors set new club long jump and Shot Putt outdoors in the USA over the weekend. Favors set a new Shot Putt record of 18.44 metres which moved him to fourth place in the All-time Irish list. Favors distance of 18.44 metres, saw him finish sixth in Florida on day one of the NCAA championships. While Colm Bourke placed sixth at the Bobcat Invitational when he…
Kevin Dooney became the 11th Raheny Shamrock athlete to compete at the World Cross Country championship on Saturday. Dooney finished 105th in the ultra-competitive World Cross Country on an un-forgiving course in Aahrus, Denmark. Sean Tobin was the other Irish athlete competing who finished 62nd.
Annette Kealy landed the World Masters W50 Cross country title in Torun Poland on Monday. Kealy finished second overall in the race, behind Great Britain’s Clare Elms, Elms was racing in the W55 category. Congratulations to Annette who won World Masters silver in the 10K road race last year. Elsewhere Kate Cronin won the Wicklow Way 25.5K hill. While Shirley Coyle won the Wicklow half-marathon in 86 minutes 15 seconds….
Kevin Dooney has been selected for the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus. This will be Dooney’s first time to compete in the World Cross Country championship and the first time an Irish male will compete at these championships since 2008. Sean Tobin of Clonmel runner-up to Dooney in the National cross country championship has also been selected on the Irish team. Dooney has previously wore the green…