{"id":1177,"date":"2017-02-05T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2017-02-05T15:04:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T15:04:54","slug":"clohisey-10th-team-12th-at-euro-club-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Clohisey 10th, team 12th at Euro Club Cross Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mick Clohisey powered home to an excellent 10th<\/sup> place finish in the European Champion Club Cross Country in Albuferia today.<\/p>\n

Clohisey got right into the battle for places in a highly competitive and extremely high standard race from the gun.<\/p>\n

The 2016 Olympian fell back down the field on the second lap before battling back through the field to take tenth place in a sprint to line.<\/p>\n

At the front of the race the pace was very fast and was eventually won by former European Junior Cross Country Champion Italian Yemaneberhan Crippa.<\/p>\n

Algerian Rabah Aboud competing for Sporting Club de Portugal finished in silver medal position with former European Cross country silver medallist Ayad Lamdassem taking bronze racing for Spain\u2019s Atletismo Bikila.<\/p>\n

However Clohisey battled back to finish in 10th<\/sup> place just 36 seconds behind Crippa, sprinting past Turkey\u2019s Alper Demir.<\/p>\n

Team wise the side were dealt a hammer blow last week when Conor Dooney obtained a shin injury, ruling him out of the championship however the side battled well to finish in 12th<\/sup> position.<\/p>\n

It is worth nothing the top six teams are full time professional outfits and the Irish champions showed real determination throughout.<\/p>\n

Kevin Dooney battled hard throughout the race to eventually finish in 51st<\/sup> place having lost a shoe at one stage and having to stop to correct the issue.<\/p>\n

Mark Kirwan produced a tactically astute performance to finish 10 places behind Dooney with John Dunne sprinting to the line in a very respectable 81st<\/sup> place one spot ahead of Simon Ryan.<\/p>\n

Ian Conroy found the going tough on the dry fast course however refused to falter finishing in 96th<\/sup> the field having entered numbers well over 100.<\/p>\n

The team race was won outright by Turkey\u2019s Istanbul BBSK with Sporting Clube de Portugal taking silver and Atletismo Bikila taking bronze.<\/p>\n

There is also a very special mention from the team to Donal Foley who was unable to run having been named as second reserve, however showed what a real Raheny man he is with a fantastic verbal support of the Raheny Shamrock team.<\/p>\n