{"id":2925,"date":"2018-07-29T23:01:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2018-07-29T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:02:25","slug":"national-medals-and-record-on-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=2925","title":{"rendered":"National Medals and Records on Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Club Records fell and eight medals were collected on day two of the National track and field championships in Santry<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Favors took silver while breaking Liam Kennedy\u2019s 37-year-old shot putt record of 15.24 metres. Favors best throw coming in the final round and measuring 16.45 metres.<\/span><\/p>\n

Galway City Harriers Sean Breathnach took gold with a best of 17.53 metres.<\/span><\/p>\n

Favors followed then took bronze in the discus and in doing so took a second club record of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Favors best throw of 50.26 metres, coming in round five broke Brendan Kelly\u2019s record of 44.12 metre record set in 1983.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the record, Marco Pons of DMP took gold with a best of 53.67 metres with Eoin Sheridan of North Westmeath taking silver with a best of 53.45 metres, while Daniel Beveridge took 11th<\/span><\/sup> place with a best of 29.55 metres.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Colm Bourke won silver in the long jump with a best of 7.40 metres. Unfortunately, the wind reading was +3.6 m\/s rules his jump invalid for a club record.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Matthew Cotter jumped 6.40 metres to finished 10th<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the track medals followed as well, defending 5,000 metre champion Conor Dooney put up a brave defence of his title, pushing the pace from early on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan Forsyth of Newcastle & Dristrict eventually taking gold in 14:30.78, a split second clear of Hiko Tonosa.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dooney collected bronze in 14:42.43.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iseult O\u2019Donnell ran a tactical race to secure bronze, firstly tailing Ciara Mageean, before accelerating on the back straight, eventually passing Alannah Lally on the straight to take bronze in 2:10.04.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aoibhinn McGoldrick pushed the pace with the leaders for 500 metres, finishing sixth in 2:13.75.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brandon Arrey took 400 metre silver posting 47.43, with Christopher O\u2019Donnell of North Sligo taking gold in 46.92.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arrey later took the final leg of the men\u2019s 4×400 men\u2019s, bringing them to within 8\/100ths of a second of a medal.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other relay team members were Jamie Sheridan, Connall O\u2019Toole and Dylan Kirwan. Their final time was 3:21.12<\/span><\/p>\n

Kieran Kelly pushed hard in the 1500 to win bronze in 3:48.68. <\/span><\/p>\n

Brian Fay took fourth place in 3:49.15.<\/span><\/p>\n

The women\u2019s team collected 4×400 metres to win silver in a time of 4:06.57. The team were led off by Lucy Barrett, Aoibhinn McGoldrick, Ailish Murtagh and finally Iseult O\u2019Donnell.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also competing today were Liam Sheehan posting 12.09 in 100m, Orla Comerford 12.84 over 100m, Laura Fallon with 2.50 in Pole Vault, Daniel Beveridge with 29.55 in Discus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately Michael Farrelly dashed off in the 100 heat and was DQ for a false start.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Club Records fell and eight medals were collected on day two of the National track and field championships in Santry Eric Favors took silver while breaking Liam Kennedy\u2019s 37-year-old shot putt record of 15.24 metres. Favors best throw coming in the final round and measuring 16.45 metres. Galway City Harriers Sean Breathnach took gold with a best of 17.53 metres. Favors followed then took bronze in the discus and in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}