Mawdsley And Healy Give Stellar Performances At Ostrava Golden Spike Continental Tour Gold 2023

Sharlene Mawdsley and Sarah Healy put in great effort to give impressive performances at the 62nd Ostrava Golden Spike Continental Tour Gold 2023 last night. Sarah Healy (1500m) and Sharlene Mawdsley (400m) are both entered at the Ostrava Golden Spike Meet this evening 🇮🇪 ℹ️Schedule & start lists: https://t.co/vcrjST3rtg📺Stream: @WorldAthletics YouTube https://t.co/jPu0aFCxXV#ContinentalTour pic.twitter.com/a1GV4MYNFI — Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) June 27, 2023 …

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European Games 2023: Team Ireland Athletics Day 2

Day 2 of the European Games 2023 kicked off this morning at the Silesian Stadium in Poland. Team Ireland’s athletics athletes participated in numerous track and field events, set on gaining enough points to overtake Austria’s lead in the team rankings. Sarah Lavin gave Ireland a good start after ending in first place in the 100m Heat A hurdles with …

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Impressive Runs From Healy And Lavin At Paavo Nurmi Games

Sarah Healy and Sarah Lavin performed impressively at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland last night (13 June 2023). Sarah Lavin just missed out on the bronze medal in the 100m hurdles final and finished fourth with a time of 12.94. Switzerland’s 21-year-old Ditaji Kambundji bagged gold in the race. “It was a very good heat run, a good …

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Athletes To Watch Out For At The Belfast IMC This Weekend

Several of Ireland’s top athletes will compete at the Belfast Irish Milers Meet at Mary Peters Track this weekend. The meet on 13 May will serve as a chance for the athletes to lay down a marker for the season ahead which culminates in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest from 19-27 August 2023. Last year saw Louise Shanahan (Leevale …

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Another Championship for Kilkerrin-Clonberne, Bronze for Ireland at Cross Country Championships: Weekly Roundup

Bronze for senior women’s team at Spar European Cross Country Championships Ireland’s senior women’s team claimed bronze at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships yesterday (Dec. 11th) at La Mandria Park in Italy. Twins Eilish and Roisin Flanagan took 11th and 12th place and Mary Mulhare 27th, supported by Ann Marie McGlynn in 31st, Aoibhe Richardson in 46th, and Michelle …

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Bronze for Ireland’s Senior Women’s Team at European Cross Country Championships

Ireland’s senior women’s team won bronze at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships at La Mandria Park in Italy yesterday afternoon (Dec 11th), wiping out all memory of last year’s painful fourth-place finish at the championships hosted in Fingal-Dublin. Twin sisters Eilish and Roisin Flanagan crossed side-by-side in 11th and 12th place, and Mary Mulhare (27th) rounded out the scoring for …

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All You Need to Know Ahead of the European Cross Country Championships

An exciting Irish team of 40 athletes, made up of equal numbers of men and women, will take to Turin this weekend for the 28th edition of the SPAR European Cross Country Championships, at La Mandria Park on December 11th 2022. The Irish athletes will join over 550 competitors from 40 countries who are set to battle it out for …

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Exciting Irish Team Selected for SPAR European Cross-Country Championships

European silver-medallist Ciara Mageean (City of Lisburn AC) heads an Irish squad stacked with Olympic and European championship experience which has been selected for the 28th edition of the SPAR European Cross-Country Championships which takes place at La Mandria Park, on the outskirts of Turin, on December 11th, 2022. Mageean is joined in the squad by fellow Olympians Michelle Finn …

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Healy claims her First National Senior Cross Country Title

Yesterday at the 123.ie National Cross-Country Championships in Donegal, Sarah Healy (21) took first place making this her first senior Cross Country Title.    Healy was pushed all the way in quality senior races, but the UCD student would soon be the star of the 10-race weekend.    The women’s 8000m race came down to a duel between Healy and …

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2nd for Jennings in Ultramarathon, Biggest ever payday for Maguire- Weekend Roundup

National Cross Country Championships- First Senior Title for Healy  Sarah Healy claimed her first national senior title at the National Cross Country Championships in Donegal this weekend in the 8000m, besting European silver medallist Ciara Mageean by 15 seconds with a time of 27:05– though Mageean still impressed as she ran much of the last lap with only one spike. …

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