{"id":4221,"date":"2020-09-01T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2020-09-01T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:57:08","slug":"odonnell-sprints-to-national-800m-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=4221","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Donnell Sprints To National 800m Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Isuelt O\u2019Donnell landed her first national senior title with a dramatic final 200 metre sprint to claim the 800m crown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">O\u2019Donnell took the final bend in her stride to land her first national championship and come away from Amy O\u2019Donoghue and Claire Mooney to take a brilliant gold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">O\u2019Donnell broke the tape in 2:09.13 to O\u2019Donoghue\u2019s 2:09.99, with Mooney third in 2:10.53.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I came back running the last few years and two years ago I wouldn&#8217;t imagine medalling twice. I&#8217;m delighted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a run from Iseult O&#8217;Donnell of Raheny, who took 800m glory today after 1500m silver last week. \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea\ud83e\udd47\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GUfSv8X4vp\">pic.twitter.com\/GUfSv8X4vp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishathletics\/status\/1300101736250699777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 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;\">It was a very successful final day of the national track and field championships as Mark Smyth and Aoibhinn McGoldrick both took silver and Kim O\u2019Hare took bronze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Mark Smyth landed 200 metre silver when he clocked 21.01 seconds just behind Marcus Lawler who took gold in 20.95 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Smyth\u2019s already bulging national senior medal collection increasing championship on championship. Smyth also took U23 gold in this event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Smyth qualified for the final posting 21.60 to win heat three, a race were Conall O\u2019Toole posted 23.73 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Aoibhinn McGoldrick collected a battling 3,000m steeplechase silver in 11:25.51 behind international steeplechaser Michelle Finn who won out in 9:59.72. Emily Greenan of Tullamore Harriers took silver in 11:35.30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Kim O\u2019Hare took bronze in the triple jump with a best of 11.34m, this doubled as U23 gold. The senior championship gold medal went to Saragh Buggy in a championship best of 12.97m and silver went to Grace Furlong with a best of 12.27m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Elsewhere Kieran Kelly took seventh place in the 800m final in 1:55.04 with Cillian Kirwan eighth in 1:57.10. The race was won by Trim\u2019s Harry Purcell in 1:52.49.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Niamh Fogarty collected the U23 discus gold medal with a best of 49.46 meters.<\/span><\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Frahenyshamrock.ie%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F4221&#038;t=O%E2%80%99Donnell%20Sprints%20To%20National%20800m%20Gold&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Frahenyshamrock.ie%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F4221&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=O%E2%80%99Donnell%20Sprints%20To%20National%20800m%20Gold\" style=\"font-size: 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O\u2019Donnell broke the tape in 2:09.13 to O\u2019Donoghue\u2019s 2:09.99, with Mooney third in 2:10.53. &#8220;I came back running the last few years&#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-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","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=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}