{"id":6922,"date":"2023-02-18T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2023-02-18T19:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T19:19:31","slug":"favors-and-smyth-grab-abbotstown-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=6922","title":{"rendered":"Favors And Smyth Grab Abbotstown Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Favors and Mark Smyth stole the headlines as they landed national senior indoor titles at the national indoor arena in Abbotstown today.<\/p>\n<p>Favors was first to claim gold when he retained his shot put title. Favors threw 17.74 metres with his first throw passing on his second and third attempt.<\/p>\n<p>John Kelly of Finn Valley threw 19.19 metres in his third attempt with Favors fourth attempt registered 19.26 metres. Kelly had no answer failing to break the 19 metre mark.<\/p>\n<p>Favors passed his fifth attempt before throwing 19.26m in his six and final attempt with the gold medal in the bag at that stage.<\/p>\n<p>A very impressive victory for Favors his third national senior title and a second national indoor title.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fortune Favors the Brave!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Favors of Raheny Shamrock AC, Dublin, celebrates a throw whilst competing in the senior men&#8217;s Shot put at the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wuZNorggJg\">https:\/\/t.co\/wuZNorggJg<\/a> National Senior Indoor Championships.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsfileSam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SportsfileSam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/njGZIM00uQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/njGZIM00uQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xcgVCxLHxh\">pic.twitter.com\/xcgVCxLHxh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 sportsfile (@sportsfile) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsfile\/status\/1626965288846589953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mark Smyth blazed to victory in the 200m following up on his outdoor national title last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Smyth sped to victory in this morning&#8217;s heat posting 21.10 seconds for a big Q. Navan&#8217;s Jake McEntagart took second in this heat in 23.59 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The final pitched Smyth against his big rival Marcus Lawler of Clonliffe.<\/p>\n<p>This time there was only one winner as Smyth smashed the Championship record to take gold in 20.77 seconds, taking 0.09 seconds off Robert McDonnell&#8217;s record set last year. The time was a personal best and new club record.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2728 Championship Record \u2728<\/p>\n<p>Mark Smyth (Raheny Shamrock) takes the National Title in the Men&#8217;s 200m and sets a new Championship Record of 20.77; his reaction says it all \u26a1\ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd48Marcus LAWLER (Clonliffe Harriers)<br \/>\n\ud83e\udd49Craig NEWELL (Ballymena and Antrim)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IrishAthletics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IrishAthletics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ask123ie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ask123ie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IdFGmVu60U\">pic.twitter.com\/IdFGmVu60U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishathletics\/status\/1626986628316114944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nElsewhere it was a good day for Sophie Becker who progressed to the 400m final, winning her semi-final in 54.41 seconds. Becker had won her early morning heat in 55.05. Becker races in the 400m final at 1:35pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Also progressing to Sunday\u2019s final this time in the 1500m was Juan Ignacio Pen and Kieran Kelly. Both scored a Raheny 1-2 in their heat. Pena posting 4:00.36 for the win with Kelly clocking 4:00.39.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s 1500 metre final takes place at 1.20pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Iseult O\u2019Donnell cruised into the 800m final winning her heat in 2:13.79, well clear of Meave O\u2019Neill from Doheny. The 800m final takes place at 2.25pm.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Meier sixth in the 60m Hurdles final in 9.20 seconds. While Shane Spring clocked 8:46.71 for sixth place in race one of the 3000m.<\/p>\n<p>Kim O\u2019Hare took seventh place in the triple jump with a best of 10.84m. 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John Kelly of Finn Valley threw 19.19 metres in his third attempt with Favors fourth attempt registered 19.26 metres&#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-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922","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=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}