{"id":7786,"date":"2023-11-22T16:54:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2023-11-22T17:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:19:55","slug":"brian-fay-and-eric-favors-win-at-athletics-ireland-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=7786","title":{"rendered":"Brian Fay And Eric Favors Win At Athletics Ireland Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Fay and Eric Favors picked up the Endurance Athlete and Field Athlete of the Year awards at the national Athletics Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Fay landed the\u00a0endurance athlete of the year after breaking Alister Craig&#8217;s 25-year-old national 5,000m record. Fay also won the national 5,000m championship and competed in the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>While Eric Favors landed the field athlete of the year, setting a national a new national indoor shot put record of 20.16m. Favors also finished in the Euro Throws Cup and competed in the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The team of\u00a0 the year award went to the mixed 4x400m relay team, with Sophie Becker a star of the successful team as they finished sixth in the final.<\/p>\n<p>On the night, Ciara Mageean and Rhasidat Adeleke won the overall award. Full Report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/athletics\/2023\/11\/22\/ciara-mageean-and-rhasidat-adeleke-joint-winners-of-2023-athlete-of-the-year\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=379&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAthleticsIreland%2Fvideos%2F1825504304575076%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"379\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/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\" 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While Eric Favors landed the field athlete of the year, setting a national a new national indoor shot put record&#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-7786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786","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=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7791,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions\/7791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}