John Dunne landed the Dublin Masters M35 cross country title by winning outright in St. Anne’s Park and helping the club to the men’s over 35 team title.
It was another brilliant day for the club at the Dublin Master Cross Country with FIVE gold medals staying in Raheny.
Dunne was a comfortable winner of the race outright ahead of Rathfarnham’s Robert Murphy with Ian Conroy taking bronze.
Dunne and Conroy combined with seventh placed Ciaran McCarthy and ninth place David Kirwan to total 20 points and gold, 54 points clear of Donore Harriers. Crusaders took bronze.
Damien Martin landed the M50 gold medal most impressively taking 14th place overall with Mick Traynor one place behind in 15th and M50 silver medallist.
Damo and Mick combined with Donald Quinn (48th) and Brian Kelly (78th) to land M50 Gold with 155 points a staggering 247 points clear of Liffey Valley with Rathfarnham third.
There was further success for the women’s over 50 team with Orla Gormley, Adrienne Atkins, Nora Byrne and Caroline Farrelly scoring 155 points, 91 points ahead of DSD with Sportsworld third.
A total of 14 individual medals were picked up by the club with a massive 69 club members taking part. The individual medallist were;
Jenny Mulry F35 bronze
Annette Kealy F45 Gold
Orla Gormley F50 Silver
Adrienne Atkins F50 Bronze
Bernie Manley F55 Bronze
Anne Reede F65 Silver
Men
John Dunne M35 Gold
Ian Conroy M35 Bronze
Ciaran McCarthy M40 Silver
Des Kennedy M45 Bronze
Damien Martin M50 Gold
Mick Traynor M50 Silver
Tom Loftus M60 Silver
Ray McCormack M70 Silver
There was one sour note for the women’s over 35 team who finished fourth just six points off the silver medal. Crusaders won out on 46 points with Donore taking silver on count back from Sportsworld who both scored 63 points.
The team was Annette Kealy, Jenny Mulry, Sarah Quigley, Helen Carr scored 69 points.
Results of Raheny athlete’s
Women – 149 finishers
5 Annette Kealy, 12 Jenny Mulry, 16 Orla Gormley, 17 Sarah Quigley, 24 Adrienne Atkins, 35 Helen Carr, 43 Caitriona Costello, 47 Elaine O’Hagan McNulty.
48 Nora Byrne, 53 Mary Walsh, 57 Jenny Colbert, 64 Nicola Mooney, 67 Caroline Farrelly, 69 Rachel Ormrod, 70 FIona Drew, 86 Una Cherry.
89 Maura Lynskey, 103 Irene Walsh, 105 Bernadette Manley, 107 Mary Purdue-Smyth, 108 Orla Lambe, 109 Siobhan Foley, 118 Brighid Smyth, 120 Sinead Lyons.
122 Cherie Hyland, 126 Niamh Donnelan, 135 Anne Reede, 138 Liz Keary, 139 Margret Byrne.
Men – 261 finishers
1.John Dunne, 3.Ian Conroy, 7.Ciaran McCarthy, 9.David Kirwin, 12. Wes O’Brien, 14.Damien Martin, 15.Mick Traynor, 17.Des Kennedy, 18.Mick Boyle, 20.Brian Leahy, 22.Ian McConkey.
23.Rory O’Sullivan, 38. Carl Conroy, 48.Donald Quinn, 51. David Duane, 66.Michael King, 67.John Clarke, 78.Brian Kelly, 84.Ken Shannon, 93. Mark McComish. 97.Niall Power.
104.Wesley Grant, 116. Keith Fleming, 117. Sean Honan, 120. Michael Gygax, 125.Kevin Prendergast, 134. Tom Loftus, 149. Eric Chump, 151.Peter Smyth. 171.Keith Cummiskey.
172.Paul Cullen, 193.Dave Feeney, 200. John Freir, 221.Paul Conroy, 225.Dave O’Hara, 229. Des Lyons, 247.Ciaran McGowan, 253.Tom Loftus, 258.Mick Martin.
