{"id":3939,"date":"2020-02-29T22:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T22:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2020-02-29T22:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T22:13:51","slug":"mark-smyth-wins-national-200m-indoor-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=3939","title":{"rendered":"Mark Smyth Wins National 200m Indoor Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Mark Smyth landed his first national senior title when he scorched around Abbotstown to the national 200m indoor title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Smyth set a new personal best and club record posting 21.04 seconds to claim the title, point 69 seconds ahead of Donore Harriers Paul McDermott.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The time moves Mark Smyth to fifth on the Irish all-time list!<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiamHennessy6?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LiamHennessy6<\/a> says it\u2019s a good time, it\u2019s a good time \ud83d\ude80 <\/p>\n<p>Mark Smyth Raheny Shamrock AC moves to 5th position on the Irish Indoor all-time list with a time of 21.05! \u26a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishlifehealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@irishlifehealth<\/a> National Senior Indoor Champs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/84SOr795wE\">pic.twitter.com\/84SOr795wE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishathletics\/status\/1233770254679101440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">21-year-old Smyth had set a new personal best in the heats, stopping the clock at 21.37 seconds to win his heat and qualify automatically for the final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Smyth becomes the 31<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">st<\/span><\/sup> Raheny Shamrock athlete to claim a national senior title and the sixth athlete to win an indoor title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Elsewhere Conall O\u2019Toole just missed out on the 200m final when he finished second in heat six posting 23.07 seconds with Liam Sheehan posting 25.78 seconds in heat seven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Brandon Arrey qualified for the 400m final winning heat six in 48.51 seconds. Oisin McCorry just missed out on the final finishing second in heat two in 51.49.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Brian Fay strode in the 1500m final winning the second semi-final in 4:01.06. While Cillian Kirwan make the 800m final winning heat three in 1:52.06.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Also through to their 800m is Iseult O\u2019Donnell clocking 2:12.08 in heat one to finish third and qualify for the final as the fastest loser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Also on the track Aoibhinn McGoldrick finished 12<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> in the 3,000m final in 10:30.46 and in the triple jump Matthew Cotter took eighth place with a best of 12.85m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Make your way down to the National indoor arena in Abbotstown tomorrow and support our athletes in their finals, action gets underway at 11:45am with the final race set for 20 past four.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single 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The time moves Mark Smyth to fifth on the Irish all-time list! 21-year-old Smyth had set a new personal best in the heats, stopping the clock&#8230;<\/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-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","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=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}