{"id":9452,"date":"2025-07-21T00:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=9452"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:17:18","slug":"brian-fay-sets-national-lead-at-5000-metres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=9452","title":{"rendered":"Brian Fay Sets National Lead At 5,000 Metres"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Fay posted the fastest 5000 metres by an Irish man this year when he clocked 13:08.25 at the Nacht van de Atletiek meet in Belgium.<\/p>\n

Fay took second place behind Belgium\u2019s Isaac Kimeli who posted 13.01.39. This was Fay\u2019s fastest time since 2023.<\/p>\n

Eric Favors threw a season\u2019s best of 20.09 meters when he finished fourth at the Madrid international. The shot put was won by Italy\u2019s Leonardo Fabri with a best of 21.99 metres.<\/p>\n

Back on the track Sophie Becker made a welcome return to racing posting 52.12 at the Madrid international 400m B race.<\/p>\n

At the AAI Games, Orla Comerford posted 24.63 seconds for fourth place in the 200m.<\/p>\n

Comerford took sixth place in heat one, series one of the 100m in 12.02. In series two heat one Comerford posted 11.94 seconds.<\/p>\n

Whereas, Angela Castell Rodriguez took fourth place in heat three of 100m series one in 12.67 seconds. In series two heat three, Rodriguez took victory in 12.59 seconds.<\/p>\n

While, Hannah Keogh finished an impressive 15th<\/sup> at the girls U15 pentathlon. Keogh taking an impressive seventh place in the high jump.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"tumblr\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian Fay posted the fastest 5000 metres by an Irish man this year when he clocked 13:08.25 at the Nacht van de Atletiek meet in Belgium. Fay took second place behind Belgium\u2019s Isaac Kimeli who posted 13.01.39. This was Fay\u2019s fastest time since 2023. Eric Favors threw a season\u2019s best of 20.09 meters when he finished fourth at the Madrid international. The shot put was won by Italy\u2019s Leonardo Fabri…<\/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-9452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452","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=9452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9457,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452\/revisions\/9457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}