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At the St Patrick’s Day Tallaght 5km, Rathfarnham WSAF made it a double with Mitchell Byrne the race winner and Laura McDonnell first woman. Byrne, who is in top form at the moment, pushed the pace from the start of the race on the Greenhills Road and crossed the line on the Tallaght track in I4 mins 44 secs. Second in 15:12 was Eoin...
INDOORS
Irish athletics performance of the weekend came from Tallaght sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke who took silver in the women’s 400m and helped her team to another silver when anchoring the 4 x 400m relay at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 10-11.
In a 400m, run off in two races, Adeleke was ...
FIGHTING FOURTH FOR McELHINNEY
Darragh McElhinney of UCD AC produced the Irish performance of the weekend in the 3000m final on the last day of the at the European Athletics Indoor Championship, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday March 5. McElhinney was just out of the medals when finishing fourth in 7 mins 44.72 secs. His time knocked just ...
Israel Olatunde, UCD AC after setting the 60m national record (Photo courtesy Athletics Ireland website)
INDOORS
UCD AC’s Luke McCann ran a new lifetime best of 3:34:76 when finishing fourth in the 1500m with a time of 3:33:49 at the World Tour Indoor finals in Birmingham on Saturday (February 25). McCann was just one place behind And...
INDOORS
Members of Dublin athletics club made quite an impact at the All Ireland Indoor Championships held over two days in Abbotstown (February 18-19). In the 60m, Israel Olatunde of UCD AC smashed the Irish record with a time of 6.57 secs - the performance of the weekend. Paul Hession’s record of 6.61 secs had stood for sixteen years...