{"id":7433,"date":"2023-07-30T22:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T21:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=7433"},"modified":"2023-07-30T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T21:08:10","slug":"fogarty-and-fay-take-national-championship-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=7433","title":{"rendered":"Fogarty And Fay Take National Championship Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Fay and Niamh Fogarty grabbed national championship gold on a great day for Raheny Shamrock.<\/p>\n<p>Niamh Fogarty landed discus gold with a convincing victory throwing 49.77 metres, more than two metres clear of Anna Gavigan of LSA.<\/p>\n<p>Fogarty\u2019s 2022 was decimated by a back injury. However, Fogarty has come back into great form, throwing over 49 metres twice on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Fogarty\u2019s first attempt registered 49.60 metres, her second was the winning 49.77. A very comfortable gold medal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Niamh Fogarty (Raheny Shamrock A.C.) secures her 5th National Senior Title in the Women&#8217;s Discus with a best of 49.77m \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd48Anna Gavigan (WLSA) 47.08<br \/>\n\ud83e\udd49Ciara Sheehy (Emerald A.C.) 42.15<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsfile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Sportsfile<\/a> \ud83d\udcf8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/123Nationals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#123Nationals<\/a> <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\/vQDxgM6kKS\">pic.twitter.com\/vQDxgM6kKS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishathletics\/status\/1685675199813799937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Later in the evening Brian Fay landed his second national senior title, totally dominating the 5000 metres to win in 13:39.40.<\/p>\n<p>Fay was relaxed throughout, first letting Donore\u2019s John Travers take the running, before sitting in the slip stream behind Mullingar\u2019s Cormac Dalton.<\/p>\n<p>Fay only putting his foot on the gas in the final 400 metres to come home for gold. Dalton clocked 13:44.43 for second with Efrem Gidney of Clonliffe taking bronze in 13:55.10.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What a performance from Brian Fay (Raheny Shamrock AC) to win his first ever 5000m National Senior Title in style (13:39.21)\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>A gutsy run from Cormac Dalton (Mullingar Harriers) to take the silver (13:44.43) and it\u2019s bronze Efrem Gidey (Clonliffe Harriers) 13:45.75\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XenCy2OsJL\">pic.twitter.com\/XenCy2OsJL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishathletics\/status\/1685706952792252416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Stephen Fay took ninth place in 14:37.24. In the ridiculous B final, Dylan O\u2019Brien was sixth in 15:44.77 and Robert Kelly 10<sup>th<\/sup> in 15.54.44. Vengatramanakarthikeyan Meiazhagan posted 16:48.25 in the C race.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Becker climbed the podium for 400m silver, posting 53.10 seconds in a season which has been distributed by injuries. Newport\u2019s Sharlene Mawdsley took gold in 51.94. Becker was well clear of Roisin Harrison in bronze medal position posting 53.93.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Cillian Kirwan was just off the medals in the 800m final taking fourth place in 1:48.60. A very competitive race saw Kirwan, who struggled with injury through the winter finish strong for fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Oisin McCorry was also just off the medals in the 400m hurdles posting 55.43 seconds, taking fourth place. This race was won for the 11<sup>th<\/sup> year in-a-row by Tom Barr.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Colm Boruke finished sixth in the long jump with a best of 7.05 metres.<\/p>\n<p>While, Lucy Barrett finished 12<sup>th<\/sup> in the 1500m final in 4:45.68. This was the race of the championship being won out by Sarah Healy.<\/p>\n<p>In the 100 metres, Michael Farrelly fifth place in semi-final two posting 11.09 seconds, unfortunately not enough to make the final. Samuel Ayeni was eighth in the same race in 11.21 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Ayeni progressed to the semi-finals having finished third in heat one in 11.01 seconds. 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Niamh Fogarty landed discus gold with a convincing victory throwing 49.77 metres, more than two metres clear of Anna Gavigan of LSA. Fogarty\u2019s 2022 was decimated by a back injury. However, Fogarty has come back into great form, throwing over 49 metres twice on Sunday. Fogarty\u2019s first attempt registered 49.60 metres, her second was&#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-7433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7433","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=7433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7436,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7433\/revisions\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}