Please note the following changes;

All 400m sprints are FINALS

U10 500m and U11 600m - 3 Heats in the Girls and 2 Heats in the Boys - Medals decided on fastest times.

U15 Girls 250m Hurdles - 2 Heats

The U13 Girls Javelin and U12 Girls High Jump will take place in Tallaght on Thursday 15^th July starting at 8.30pm.

The U12 Boys High Jump will take place in Tallaght on Tuesday 20^th July at 8.30pm

Please advise your athletes and parents/guardians NOT TO ARRIVE ANY EARLIER THAN 8pm.

The U9/10/11 Team Competition –Saturday 24^th of July – Morton Stadium, Santry – Entries Close: Wednesday 14^th July

This is strictly for pairs and NO individuals can be entered

Due to the restricted numbers ONLY 1 Parent/Guardian is permitted to accompany his her charge on competition days.

IMPORTANT REMINDER: THE COVID HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE MUST BE COMPLETED FOR THE ATHLETE AND THE ONE PARENT/GUARDIAN ATTENDING  AND BY OFFICIALS THROUGH THE LINK BELOW, NO EARLIER THAN THE EVENING BEFORE AND NO LATER THAN THE MORNING OF EACH AND EVERY COMPETITION DAY.

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ALL PARENTS/GUARDIANS, OFFICIALS and ATHLETES U14 – U19 MUST WEAR A FACE COVERING WHEN NOT COMPETING.

National Juvenile Championships – These are scheduled to take place in Tullamore on the dates below. 

Saturday 7^th August                U12-U19 T&F Championships Day 1

Sunday 8^th August                  U13-U19 T&F Championships Day 2

Saturday 14^th August              U14-U19 T&F Championships Day 3

Saturday 21^st August              Children’s Team Games, U12-U13 T&F Championships (Track & HJ)

No timetables have been posted as yet for the above.

ONLY the first 3 individuals in the U12 – U19 events and 3 teams in each event in the U9/10/11 team competition (Children’s Team Games) qualify for Nationals. 

Clubs MUST confirm their U12-U19 athletes are competing at Nationals by Wednesday 21^st July. Entry fee €5 per event payable to Dublin Athletic Board.

No direct entry for U17/18/19 athletes this year – Qualification through Dublin Championships ONLY.

Attachments:

Amended Time Table Dublin Juvenile T-F Championships Friday 16th and Sat 17th Ju

The reduced number of Graded Meetings due to Covid 19 were very much appreciated by athletes with one happy participant exclaiming " it was fantastic to be back on the track I thought we were never going to get a opportunity to compete.The effort of the Graded Meeting Team to stage the events is very much appreciated."

Molly Scott got proceedings underway on the first evening in Morton Stadium with a 12.03 clocking in the 100m with Bandon's Shane Howard the fastest man over the distance in 10.88 running into a slight headwind. Cherry Nolan  won the first women's 1500 holding of the challenge of Niamh Kearney in 4m37.57. The fastest man over the 5 races in the men's series was Jonathan Whan of Clonliffe who had a finish straight sprint to win the men's "A" race in 3m53.3,

Raheny's Niamgh Fogarty had the best throw in the women's discus with 46,84 and Eoin Sheridan of Clonliffe 51.31 effort lead the men's field.

Tallaght was the venue for the second meeting with Sarah McCarthy winning the first 200m in25.20 into a minus headwind  and Paul McDermott won the men's "A" race in 22.45..

Aimee Hayde won the first of  seven 800m races in 2.08.31.. Philip Marron held off the home straight challenge of Jake Bagge to win the  men's 800 in 1.52.50.

Geoffrey Jay O*Regan cleared 2m00 to win the men's high jump.

It was back to Tallaght for the third meeting Paul Murphy of Ferrybank clocked 48.79 in the men's 400m.North Down's Rachedl McCann was the . fastest woman winning in 56.52.

Ciara Wilson of D.M.P. took the first of five 5000metres  leading from the start to clock 17m42.10. 

Raheny's Brian Fay took the field along in the "A" Men's  5000m dropping out at 3k with 8m23s on the clock to Leave Sean Tobin in front who retained his rhythm to clock 13m53,65s a good start to his outdoor season. Paul O'Donnell of D.S.D. ran a very measured race to clock14m16,36 in second with Eoin Everard third.Next up was Conor Duffy who held off the challenge of Mick Clohissey.

In  another 5k James Hyland held off the  home straight challenge of his Raheny Clubmate  David Rooney who was making a return to competition after a long absence.. no fewer than 92 athletes competed in the 5000m series which indicates  the need for competition in this truncated track and field season.

Nick Davis

Juvenile Competition:

It is with regret that Dublin Athletic Board have had to decide that Juvenile competition within Dublin cannot go ahead.

This is based on:

1) The fact that Phase 4 of the Covid restrictions has not being implemented and as such numbers of attendees are restricted to 200.

2) This decision is in line with the Leinster Athletics decision, which came to the same conclusion.

3) It also draws upon the experience gained from the Graded meeting of the 22/7/20.

Just to be clear; even if the numbers are increased to 500, there are still significant challenges to organising a Juvenile competition.

So please do not automatically assume that if the restriction on numbers is lifted to 500, that competition will be organised.

Tallaght 5k:

Please note that the Tallaght 5k event has been postponed to the 16th August (one week later than it's original scheduled date).

This too is in the hope that restrictions on numbers is increased.

Further notices on the event will be posted, closer to the 16th August.

Click below for Field Event Results

Attachments:

Women and Men Discus.pdf

Women and Men Pole Vault.pdf

Women and Men Shot.pdf

Women ^0 Men High Jump.pdf

Graded Meeting 2 will take place on Wednesday August 5th in Tallaght Athletic Stadium subject to being permitted by AAI/HSE protocols.

Events include, 200m, 800m, Long Jump, Hammer, Shot Putt; Women and Men All grades.

Postponement of opening entry to meetinng 2

Online entries only will open on Monday 27th July at 6.00am. The entries will close when the permitted number of entries have been reached.

We apologise for this delay in opening the entries, some lessons learned from Meeting 1 in Santry need to be digested.

A big thanks to all the athletes who competed in this the first outdoor track and Field event of the year, and especially to all the diligent officials who worked tirelessly to ensure the Meeting was a big success.

                   Dublin Athletic Board Graded Team

Please read carefully the instructions in attached file for information on proceedures at Graded Meeting 1 on 22nd July 2020

Attachments:

Graded Entry Instructions.pdf