{"id":9503,"date":"2025-08-04T14:56:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=9503"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:56:48","slug":"fogarty-and-becker-claim-national-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=9503","title":{"rendered":"Fogarty And Becker Claim National Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niamh Fogarty and Sophie Becker landed gold at day two of the national senior track and field championships.<\/p>\n<p>While there was silver for Brian Fay with Michael Farrelly just outside the medals.<\/p>\n<p>Fogarty secured the club\u2019s 110<sup>th<\/sup> national senior gold medal when winning the discus. Fogarty\u2019s first effort of 55.08m secured gold. Anna Gavigan of LSA took second place with a best of 51.30m.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udd47\ud83e\udd47 Double Gold for Niamh Fogarty!<\/p>\n<p>After striking gold in the shot put yesterday, Niamh Fogarty (Raheny Shamrock A.C.) returned to the circle to claim the women\u2019s discus title, throwing 55.08m to seal the win and underline her status as the national record holder! \ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd48 Anna\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ilneNW6Wdt\">pic.twitter.com\/ilneNW6Wdt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishathletics\/status\/1952048109434925247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Whereas, Sophie Becker showed her class to retain her 400m title clocking 52.87 seconds for gold, well clear of North Down\u2019s Rachel McCann who posted 53.19 seconds for silver.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sophie Becker reflects on her 400m victory at the National Athletics Championships in Santry I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidGillick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DavidGillick<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RTEsport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RTEsport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1OHDMXWawR\">pic.twitter.com\/1OHDMXWawR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTEsport\/status\/1952067658771316749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nBrian Fay took silver in the race or the day the 5,000m final. In a very tight race throughout, Fay made a move for home with just under 800 metres remaining.<\/p>\n<p>However, a very strong finish by the surprise entrant Andrew Coscoran saw Coscoran take gold on the line ahead of Fay.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Victory for Andrew Coscoran in the Men&#8217;s 5,000m as he edges out Brian Fay in the home straight<\/p>\n<p>Watch live now on RT\u00c9 2 \ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b2OI4OoWVJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/b2OI4OoWVJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RTESport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RTESport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q4UAebjwfz\">pic.twitter.com\/Q4UAebjwfz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTEsport\/status\/1952050559294296461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Michael Farrelly was just a hair off a medal in the 100 metre final. Farrelly took fourth place posting 10.58 seconds, just 0.01 seconds off bronze won by Lorcan Murphy in 10.57 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Gold went to Bori Akinola in 10.29 seconds and silver to Sean Aigboboh in 10.41 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Orla Comerford took ninth place in the women\u2019s 100m final in 11.95 seconds. Ciara Neville won out in 11.44 seconds. 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While there was silver for Brian Fay with Michael Farrelly just outside the medals. Fogarty secured the club\u2019s 110th national senior gold medal when winning the discus. Fogarty\u2019s first effort of 55.08m secured gold. Anna Gavigan of LSA took second place with a best of 51.30m. \ud83e\udd47\ud83e\udd47 Double Gold for Niamh Fogarty!&#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-9503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503","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=9503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9505,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions\/9505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}