{"id":6926,"date":"2023-02-19T22:38:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2023-02-19T22:38:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:38:54","slug":"becker-and-odonnell-take-national-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=6926","title":{"rendered":"Becker And O&#8217;Donnell Take National Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Becker and Iseult O&#8217;Donnell took claimed gold at day two of the national indoor championships in Abbotstown.<\/p>\n<p>Becker landed the 400m tittle in a blistering 53.11 seconds well clear of Leevale&#8217;s Phil Healy who posted 53.97 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Becker&#8217;s victory means she now holds both the outdoor and indoor titles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2728 National Title \u2728<\/p>\n<p>A really smooth run from Sophie Becker (Raheny Shamrock A.C.) in the Women&#8217;s 400m to win her 2nd National Indoor Title \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd48Phil HEALY (Bandon A.C)<br \/>\n\ud83e\udd49Miriam DALY (Carrick-on-Suir A.C.)<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\/GMwI452my6\">pic.twitter.com\/GMwI452my6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishathletics\/status\/1627307748231618560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Isuelt O&#8217;Donnell was another with a commanding performance. O&#8217;Donnell took 800m gold in 2:07.06 showing great speed off the back straight to power home to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Nadia Power took second place in 2:07.22 and led heading into the home straight but cometh the hour cometh Isuelt to claim the national title.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2728 National Champion \u2728<\/p>\n<p>Iseult O\u2019Donnell (Raheny Shamrock) makes her move down the home straight to claim her first National Senior Indoor 800m title \ud83d\udc4f\ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd48Nadia Power (DCH)<br \/>\n\ud83e\udd49Susie Nestor (UCD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IrishAthletics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IrishAthletics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8kNu8qkSSg\">https:\/\/t.co\/8kNu8qkSSg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KQtdwV3eTG\">pic.twitter.com\/KQtdwV3eTG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishathletics\/status\/1627323052760485891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kieran Kelly rolled back the years to claim 1500m bronze when posting 3:55.00 in a very close battle with Eoin Pearce of Clonliffe who took gold in 3:54.28 and silver medallist Philip Marron of Ratoath who clocked 3:54.64<\/p>\n<p>There was heart break however for Juan Ignacio Pena who finished in fourth place in 3:55.06.<\/p>\n<p>Niamh Kearney took bronze in the 3000m clocking 9:26.56. Cheryl Nolan of St Abbans produced a sprint finish to take gold in 9:22.32 with Michelle Finn taking bronze in 9:22.35.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere Michael Farrelly took fifth place in his 60m semi-final in 7.00 seconds. Farrelly had finished third in his heat earlier on Sunday morning posting 7.05 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Niamh McCorry took seventh place in the shot put with a best of 10.89m.<\/p>\n<p>In the 4x200m relays the men&#8217;s team were just outside the medals finishing fourth overall. Mark Smyth, Michael Farrelly, Tinaye Mukanya and Tanaka Mukanya posted 1:31.93 to take third place in heat one.<\/p>\n<p>Leevale posted 1:29.82 and DSD 1:30.84. In heat two Clonliffe posted 1:27.49 to take gold. Nenagh Olympic also clocked 1:31.93 meaning the Shamrock&#8217;s shared fourth place with Nenagh.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s team of Tara Meier, Abena Afari, Isabel Twomey and Jessica Afrakomaa clocked 1:45.27 for third place in heat one. DSD set a new national record of 1:39.86 to win the heat and take gold.<\/p>\n<p>Clonliffe posted 1:43.81. 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Becker landed the 400m tittle in a blistering 53.11 seconds well clear of Leevale&#8217;s Phil Healy who posted 53.97 seconds. Becker&#8217;s victory means she now holds both the outdoor and indoor titles. \u2728 National Title \u2728 A really smooth run from Sophie Becker (Raheny Shamrock A.C.) in the Women&#8217;s 400m to win&#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-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","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=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6927,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}