Age group Irish data indoors at residence and the USA, while highway racing and cross nation additionally that includes in Lindie Naughton’s weekly round-up.
Darragh McElhinney received the lads’s 3000m in assured type on the opening day of the Nationwide Indoor Championships at Abbotstown on Saturday (February 25)
McElhinney’s time of 8:02.8 noticed him end three seconds away from 17-year-old Nick Griggs of Mid Ulster AC. In third place was Keelan Kilrehill of Moy Valley AC in 8:12.14. Actually the brand new era of Irish center distance operating is on the march!
Within the girls’s 3000m, Sarah Healy of UCD AC set a brand new U23 Irish report of 8:53.67.
Georgie Hartigan of Dundrum South Dublin AC in motion outdoor final Might. Photograph by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile
Dominating the lads’s 1500m was Luke McCann of UCD Ac who received in a time of three:45.14. Within the girls’s race, Georgie Hartigan of Dundrum South Dublin AC was the winner in 4:23.26, holding off the problem of Nadia Energy of Dublin Metropolis Harriers who was an in depth second in 4:23.62.
Profitable an thrilling males’s 800m title in 1:49.39 was Mark English of Finn Valley. Leevale AC’s Louise Shanahan received the ladies’s race in 2:06.72
Within the sprints, Molly Scott of St LOT AC reclaimed the Irish 60m report with a time of seven.29 secs, whereas Phil Healy of Bandon AC proved the category of the sphere within the 400mwith a championships finest time of time of 51.75.
Elsewhere indoors
Abdel Laadjel of Donore Harriers improved the Irish U20 Indoor 5000m to 14 minutes 12.73 secs at the Large East Meet late on Friday night (February 2) the place the Irish had been out in pressure.
Laadjel, representing Windfall School, knocked virtually a second off Darragh McElhinney’s report of 14.13.67 set in 2019.
Barry Keane of Waterford AC completed second and Evan Byrne of Togher AC fifth in that very same race, with occasions of 13:43.81 and 14:06.86 respectively. Laura Mooney of Tullamore Harriers was second within the girls’s 5km in a time of 16:18.49; Orla O’Connor of Waterford AC was ninth.
In different US school outcomes, Cormac Dalton clocked a time of 14:01.09 when profitable the 5000m on the AAC Indoors; Peter Lynch of Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers was third in 14:01.65.
Euro Masters Indoors
Triple gold medal winner Anne Gilshinan of Slaney Olympic was simply one of many large winners for the Irish staff at the European Grasp Indoors, which ended on Sunday (February 27)
Gilshinan started her marketing campaign profitable the W55 800m on Wednesday, following that up with the 3000m on Thursday and the 1500m on Saturday. Different Irish winners within the 3000m had been Eoin Everard of Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers M35 and Denise Toner of Clones AC W40.
A double winner was Annette Quaid of Leevale AC who received the W40 400m and 800m.
Joe Gough of West Waterford continued his outstanding profession when, on the age of 69, he received the M65 1500m after ending third within the 800m earlier within the week.
10 is the magic quantity for Moldovan
Operating his third 10-mile race in eight days, Tudor Moldovan of Clonliffe Harriers added the Kinsale 10 title his victory at Turgesius in Westmeath final Sunday (53:46) and his second place (53:07) the day before today at Ardagh, writes John Walshe
Moldovan, recording one other constant time of 53:49, was effectively away from St Finbarr’s duo Jeremy O’Donovan and Michael Morgan who completed second and third in respective occasions of 54:27 and 54:37.
The ladies’s report went when Jennifer Montague improved her Leevale AC’s team-mate Claire McCarthy’s better of 61:11 by one second when ending twelfth general in 61:10. Second was Catherine Murphy of Eagle AC in 65:27 with unattached runner Jean Lucey taking third in 66:19.
The hilly nature of the Kinsale course together with the windy circumstances meant that simply ten runners broke the hour, in comparison with the a lot higher-standard Dungarvan race three weeks in the past the place 101 completed contained in the 60-minute barrier.
Clare Deegan, Gina Brunton and Bernie Twomey – all Midleton AC – pictured on the Kinsale 10-mile. Image: John Walshe
In different Sunday races, Jake O’Regan of St John’s AC was a transparent winner of the Adare 10km in Co Limerick in a time of fifty minutes 9 sec.
In second place in 32.30 was Declan Moore of Bilboa AC , whereas third was Barry Donovan of Cork Monitor Membership in in 32.51, Ninth general and first girl was Grace Lynch of Iveragh AC in 34:32. Dympna Ryan of Dundrum AC was second in 35:28 and Mary Mulhare of Portlaoise AC third in 45:54.
Additionally on Sunday, Darragh Inexperienced of Dunleer Ac received the Duleek and District AV 5km in a time of 15 minutes 25 secs. First girl was Laura Buckley of Dunboyne AC in 17:44.
Mick Fogarty of Ferbane AC and Fiona Gettings of Longford AC had been the winners of the re-scheduled Ardagh 10-Mile Problem held in Co Longford on Saturday (February 26).
Fogarty, who was additionally first M40, was chased onerous by Clonliffe Harriers’ Tudor Moldovan, defying the windy circumstances to complete in 53 minutes 1 sec. Moldovan was six seconds adrift. Gettings, additionally first W40, proved the category of the ladies’s area ending in 64:35.
Cross nation nonetheless going sturdy
Conal McCaughey of North Belfast Harriers proved better of the lads at the NI and Ulster Cross-Nation Championships at Gransha, in Derry, on Saturday (February 26).
McCaughey held off the problem of Annadale Striders’ Eskander Turki and Neil McCartan of East Down AC. Within the staff competitors, Annadale acquired the higher of arch-rivals North Belfast Harriers with Metropolis of Derry Spartans third.
Catherine Whoriskey of Metropolis of Derry Striders held off the problem of Jessica Craig from North Down AC to take the ladies’s title. Kerry O’Flaherty of Newcastle and District AC was third. North Down AC beat Newcastle and District Ac for the staff title with Metropolis of Derry Spartans third.
Runaway winner of the inaugural Central BAA 4-Mile Cross-Nation at Wesley School, Dublin on Saturday (February 27) was particular person runner Ieuan Hopkins with a time of 21 minutes 21 secs. Ben Mitchell was second in 22.19 and Ian McGrath of Financial institution of Eire 22:34.
Ending seventh and first girl was Niamh Allen in 22:46. Deirdre McCann was second in 25:56 and Lea Braud third in 26:09.
Within the staff competitors TCD received grade A, Lecturers grade B, Division of Schooling C, and JDES Electrical grade D.
The ultimate BHAA cross-country race of the season takes place subsequent Saturday, March 5, at NUI Maynooth.
