The Dublin indoor championships was a marathon affair at the weekend. We had a lot of athletes involved over both days over a lot of different events. The 400m races got us under way on Saturday morning with Aimee and and Niamh getting PBs in their heats and getting bronze and silver medals respectively in their finals later on in the day.
Goda was a very good 3rd in the 1500m under 17 and Lily ran in the under 18 1500m.
Aoibhinn, Amy, Isla, Ellie, Eoin and Hector raced well in their 60m races which had over 80 athletes in each age group.
Rion just missed out on a medal in the final of the under 13 60m finishing a close 4th, Aoife equalled her pb in the pole vault and finished 3rd in her age group.
Isla , Ellie and Ellen all did the long jump with huge numbers in their age groups.
Aoife and Juliette ran well in their 600m races under 13. In the 800m under 14 Lauren was the surprise of the day running a very good time, Amelia made the final of the 800 under 14, Freya wasn’t far off a final place , Robin did well on her first indoor 800.
Tom and Daire had solid runs in the boys under 15 800, Jessica , Pearl and Maggie made the final with Saoirse just missing out.
Megan was very close to a final spot in the 800 under 16 , Ella and Abigail also raced well under 16. Lily was a very good 3rd in the 800m under 18.
The 60m for the older age groups were on Sunday afternoon with Maggie getting to the semi finals, Alice just missed out, Martha had a great afternoon finishing a close 4th in the final with a huge Pb!
The medal of the afternoon was the bronze won by Max in the shot under 13 and not to be out done by Max , Rion got a bronze in the girls shot under 13. A lot of work went into those two bronze medals!! Big well done!
Alice did the triple jump for the first time and won a silver medal to finish off our medal haul for the weekend.
Thank you to all the parents and coaches who brought the athletes out to compete and supported them over the two days.
Celtic DCH 