Following todays anouncement re Dublin Covid-19 status we regret that we have had to cancel Juvenile Cross Country League 1 scheduled for this Sunday 20th September.
The Juvenile League 2 and Novice Cross Country Championship scheduled for October 4th in Tymon Park is now postponed to a future date. We will post further information as the situation develops.
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
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
 Graded Entry Instructions.pdf |
Great News. With the easing of restrictions we are planning to hold three Graded Meetings for 2020 as follows;
Graded Meeting 1 on 22nd July Morton Stadium Santry
Graded Meeting 2 on 5th August Tallaght Athletic Club Stadium
Graded Meeting 3 on 12th August Morton Stadium Santry
Since posting the programme of events we have had numerous requests for change from athletes to facilitate upcoming championships.
The newly amended programme is now attached and entries will open on 08.07.2020
As we are limited by the protocols dictated by AAI and HSE we will accept online entries only and no entries on the day.
Also we may have to limit the number of entries in order to comply with the Covid 19 regulations.
We will make further anouncements as the situation develops and keep you updated.
Below is the proposed programme of events for each meeting, this is subject to change but we will advise in advance of any entries.
This site will be open for entries two weeks before the first meeting.
| Updated Revision of Graded Programme 2020.pdf |
Dublin Athletic Board