We had 12 athletes racing today in Santry for their secondary schools in the Leinster cross country championships. Our junior girls have had better days and were very disappointed not to qualify for the Nationals. Better days ahead! In the junior boys Joe Fogarty ran very well finishing 8th and qualified for the all Ireland’s.
Our intermediate girls ran well with Dora in 10th, Clare racing back into good form and Sara and Cliodhna giving good back up to narrowly miss out on 2nd team. With Gillian hopefully recovered from her flu the Nationals should be a good race for this team in two weeks time.
Sean ran a super race in the inter boys finishing 3rd and very close to 2nd. He still has another year in this age group so this was a great result. Well done everyone.
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Results of Dublin Indoors
click on link below for Dublin Indoor results
Individual Results Dublin Juvenile Indoor Championships 2018.xlsx
Athlone international Athletics meeting
On Wednesday night on TG 4 the highlights from the international meeting in Athlone IT will be shown at 9.30. Tune in!!!!!
Day 1 of the Nationals report
In addition to Emily’s fantastic bronze medal performance on Saturday we also had Caoimhe run an indoor pb in her 400m, Susie and Clare both ran in a very scrappy 800m heat and battled well but didn’t make the final. Catherine and Daire qualified for their finals(covered in earlier posts).
Photo from Mary
Happy girl with her silver medal!
National senior update
A very entertaining day of Athletics it turned out to be on day 2 of the National seniors in Abbott’stown. Our supporters were thrilled to watch Catherine coming 2nd in her 400m final in a fantastic personal best time of 53.81 secs. On Saturday morning her pb was 54.15 so that was pretty much shattered! Great run Catherine. Muireann had a good day in a competitive pole vault and equalled her personal best. Alison Burke was up against all ‘the big girls ‘ today in the 60m hurdles but she handled the pressure very well doing a big pb and finishing 6th in the final.
Daire Finn got caught up in a very tactical 1500m and did his best. With very experienced senior runners calling the shots it was never going to be pretty but championship running is like that.
Thank you to all our ‘kit team’ and to all who supported our athletes today. This is the stage we are aiming for with all our young athletes. Great to see so many of our parents and friends there today.
