Cork City Sports - EAA Permit Grand Prix (Sat 12th)

Rineanna

Seeming that it's one of the only times that International athletics comes to our shores, I think it deserves its own thread.

It has pretty much the same make-up as last year, event-wise, with both the Men and Women's programmes comprising of the 100m, 200m, 400m,
1500m, 3000m, Long Jump, High Jump and Shot Putt. The Women's programme also includes the 100mh.

As to who's competing there, a number of big names have been lined up. I do however, treat the announcement of big names for the met with some cauton, as last year we were promised Carmelita Jeter, Crystal Cox, Yevginia Polyakova and Monnigue Hennaghan but there was no sign of them on the day! However, let's be optimistic!

There are a good few big names flying in for the meet; Carolina Kluft (LJ) is the star of the show, and she'll be joined by Jamie Nieto (4th @ last Olympics), Chris Lloyd, Dylan Armstrong, Scott Martin, Brendan Christian and a few top Jamacians. Although, some people that are down to run in Cork are also running tommorrow night in the Golden League meet, including Gillick, Tahesia Harrigan and Brendan Christian. There's likely to be no British athletes at the meet, as their trials start tommorrow 'til Sunday. There were a good few of them over last year, so it'll be intersting this year to see who they've been replaced with.

Anyone else hear of any names taking part?

Rineanna

Stratlists for tommorrow:

Women’s Shot Putt
Helena Engman 76 Sweden
Deirdre Murphy Ireland
Ailish Sheehan Ireland
Anca Heltne 78 Romania
Denise Hinrichs 87 Germany
Chloe Beckett 88 England
Rachel Cork 86 England
Josephine Terlecki 86 Germany
Magdalene Sobieszek 86 Poland

Henry Ford & Son Limited Women’s 100m
LaVerne Jones-Ferrette US Virgin Islands 81
Virgil Hodge St. Kitts 83
Tahesia Harrigan US Virgin Islands 82
Ailish McSweeney Ireland 83
Brianna Glenn USA 80
Kelly Proper Ireland 88
Ewelina Klocek Poland 77
Daria Korcznska Poland 81

Irish Sports Council Men’s 1500m
Mitch Kealey Australia 84
Rob Myers USA 80
Adrian Blincoe New Zealand 79
Colm Rooney Ireland 83
Eoin Everard Ireland 84
Bernard Kiptum Kenya 86
Cornelius Chirchir Kenya 83
Kevin Moriarty Ireland 86
Brian Farrell Ireland
Paritam Bind India 85
Shane Stroup USA 84
Christoph Lohse Germany 83
Alistair Cragg Ireland 80
Mark Pollard Scotland 82
Ciaran O’Lionard Ireland 88
Chatoli Hazma India 81
Mark Thompson USA
Michal Sneberger Czech Republic

Irish Institute of Sport Women’s 3000m
Victoria Mitchell Australia 78
Georgie Clarke Australia 84
Molly Huddle USA 84
Rene Baillie USA 81
Megan Metcalfe Canada 82
Maria McCambridge Ireland 75
Amy Mortimer USA 81
Margarita Plaksina Russia
Stephanie O’Reilly Ireland 78
Dawn Kelly Ireland
Jacqueline Martin Spain 74

Rochestown Park Hotel Women’s 200m
Laverne Jones- Ferrette US Virgin Islands 81
Makelesi Batimala Fiji 77
Virgil Hodge St. Kitts 83
Daria Korcznska Poland 81
Claire Brady Ireland 87
Kaltouma Nadjina Chad 76
Ewelina Klocek Poland 87
Natalie Knight USA 86

Barry’s Tea Women’s High Jump
Miruna Mataoanu 83 Romania
Karolina Gronau 84 Poland
Oldriska Maresova 86 Czech Rep.
Rosemary Daniel 82 Ireland
Grainne Moggan 90 Ireland
Hayley Pitman 89 England
Lucy Hodgins 88 England
Leah Parsons 89 England
Andrea Ispan 78 Romania

McCarthy Developments Men’s Shot Putt
Sean Breathnach 79 Ireland
Scott Martin 82 Australia
Maris Urtans 81 Latvia
Cristofer Gotz Germany
Garreth Johnson 84 USA
Steve Manz 81 USA
Milan Haborak 73 Slovakia
Rimantas Martisauskas 87 Lithuania
Alan O’Connor Ireland

FDC group – Financial services Men’s 100m
Dwight Thomas Jamaica 80
Chris Williams Jamaica 72
Chris Johnson USA 84
Paul Hessian Ireland 83
Demelaios McCloud USA
Krzysztf Jablonski Poland 85
Chris Russell Ireland 82
Derek Duff Ireland 87

Irish Sports Council Women’s 400m
Aliann Pompey Guyana 78
Clora Williams Jamaica 83
Makelesi Batimala Fiji 77
Kaltouma Nadjina Chad 76
Marian Andrews Ireland
Barbara Petrahn Hungary 78
Shereese Woods USA 85

SPAR Women’s 100m Hurdles
Derval O’Rourke Ireland 81
Andrea Bliss Jamaica 80
Marina Tomic Slovenia 83
Toyin Augustus Nigeria 79
Aurelia Trywianska Poland 76
Fanni Juhasz Hungary 81
Fatmata Fontanah Guyana
Katie Byrd Ireland

Super Valu Men’s 200m
Dwight Thomas Jamaica 80
Chris Williams Jamaica 72
Paul Hessian Ireland 83
Krzysztf Jablonski Poland 85
Demelaios McCloud USA
David O’Shea Ireland
Chris Johnson USA 82
Jordon Vaden USA

Cork City Council Men’s Long Jump
James Beckford 75 Jamaica
Fabrice Lapierre 83 Australia
Stephen Fleming 72 Ireland
Savvas Diakonikolas 83 Greece
Herbert McGregor 81 Jamaica
Chris Crowley 87 Ireland
Christopf Stolz 80 Germany
Christian Kaczmarek 84 Germany

Cork City Council Women’s Long Jump
Leonie Byrne 87 Ireland
Antoinette Stafford Ireland
Rose Richmond 81 USA
Kelly Proper 88 Ireland
Grace Upshaw 75 USA
Teresa Dobija 82 Poland
Tabia Charles 85 Canada
Brianna Glenn 80 USA
Patricia Soman-Shunk 81 Ivory Coast
Jana Veldakova 81 Slovakia
Aileen Ruane Ireland

FDC group – Financial services Women’s 1500m
Julie Culley USA 81
Sinimole Paulose India 83
Sushma Devi India 84
Olesia Tyurina Russia 80
Sonya Roman Slovenia 79
Deirdre Byrne Ireland 82
Hazel Murphy Ireland 84
Rose-Anne Galligan Ireland 87
Fionnuala Britton Ireland 84
Flo Jonsson Sweden 78
Adrienne Jordan Ireland
Ciara Durkin Ireland
Dawn Kelly Ireland

SPAR Men’s 400m
Brian Doyle Ireland 77
Greg O’Leary Ireland
Abderrahim El Haouzy France 75
Nick Hogan Ireland
Greg Nixon USA 81
Grzegrz Zajaczcovski Poland 80
Peter Znova Slovakia

Johnson & Perrott Men’s 3000m
David McCarthy Ireland 88
Bobby Curtis USA 84
Gary O’Hanlon Ireland 74
Fredrik Uhrbom Sweden
Mark Christie Ireland 85
Gary Murray Ireland 80
Mark Hanrahan Ireland 85
Dan Mulhare Ireland
Boniface Kiprop Uganda 85
Mike Kigen Kenya 86
Shadrack Kosgei Kenya 84
Peter Nowill Australia 79
David Jackson Canada
Rory Chesser Ireland 87
Mark Thompson USA
Jyun Shintoto Japan 85
Tomoaoki Bungo Japan 86
Kenji Murozuka Japan 86
Yuuki Murozuka Japan
Surenda Singh India 80
Brian Maher Ireland

Fast_Mover

Happen to be away in Dublin this weekend of all weekends..annoyed that I'm missing it as it so close to home!:(
Will be very intrigued to see the Irish results come Monday when I return.

A P

I take it Kluft is out? I don't see her name on the list. Great pole vault world record by Isinbeyeva in Rome. She cleared it with plenty to spare.

Fast_Mover

A P wrote: »

Great pole vault world record by Isinbeyeva in Rome. She cleared it with plenty to spare.

5.03m in case anyone was wondering. That's a 2c improvement.
Was her first competition of the season..she hasn't competed since winning the World Indoor title back at the start of March.
She must be minted at this stage..and not anyway finished yet!:D

Rineanna

A P wrote: »

I take it Kluft is out? I don't see her name on the list. Great pole vault world record by Isinbeyeva in Rome. She cleared it with plenty to spare.

Yeah, I'm dissapointed with that; I was looking forward to seeing her in action. Oh well, there's plenty of other big names there; the Women's Long Jump itself has three of the U.S.A's best jumpers in Upshaw, Glenn and Richmond. The Sprints should be good too; Laverne Jones just ran 22.6? last week, so she's in good form. The World Indoor Bronze medallist in the 400m, Shareese Woods, goes in the 400m, and so on.

shels4ever

is this on TV today, cant seem to find it

A P

I don't think so - there are regular updates on RTE Radio 1 and Newstalk. Some good performances so far - Hession with the fastest 100m on Irish soil (not sure of the time - 10.2ish I think) and Cragg 2nd in the 1500m in 3.39 approx.

SitUbuSit

All results are on

http://www.corkcitysports.ie/corkcitysports/Main/Results.htm

Interesting Irish results to note
O'Rourke second in 13.00 in 100mh
Cragg second in 1500m in 3.39 and second in 3000m in 7.55
Hession first in 100m in 10.21 and 200m in 20.67
Proper second in LJ with 6.46 with following wind of 2.2m/s

Seamus

Rineanna

Well, I’m just back from a fantastic day at the Cork City Sports. It really was a fantastic day down in Cork, with great organisation and great action on the track and in the field. Kelly Proper and Paul Hession were my Male and Female athletes of the day, without a doubt. I’ll do my best to give as good an account of the day as I can. Some of the details may be a bit sketchy, as I forgot to bring a pen to take down results (D’oh!). Anyway, here it goes:

Dark clouds had gathered at the start of the meet over the Mardyke, but after around a half an hour into the programme, along with a couple of showers, they cleared, and the sun split the stones for the rest of the meet. The infamous gale force winds which the Mardyke is renowned for were nowhere to be seen (felt?), which was good news for Sprinters and Jumpers alike.

The Women’s High Jump got the day off to a relatively quiet start. It wasn’t the strongest field to begin with, and a couple of no shows didn’t help, with the Romanian Ispan winning with a modest height of 1.85. Deirdre Ryan, I believe, was competing in Cuxhaven today, while last year’s winner, Amy Acuff, was competing at the Golden League meet in Rome last night.

The Men’s Long Jump got under way at the start of the Grand Prix. It’s always an enjoyable event, with the athletes working the crowd, just as it was in the High Jump aswell. James Beckford, an ever-present at this meet, took the lead with a 7.77m jump, with some of the other athletes failing to hit top-form in the early rounds. Fabrice Lapierre (Aus) and Stolz (Ger) were threatening Beckford’s lead, and Lapierre snatched the win from the Jamacian with a 7.95m jump in the last round. Chris Crowley set a new PB of 7.16m.

I didn’t get to see any of the Women’s shot, unfortunately, as I was well placed by the finish line for the Sprints, middle-distance and Long Jump so I wasn’t going to lose my spot! Denise Henrichs of Germany (one of Germany’s three putters going to Beijing and ranked 12th in the world) won with an 18.35m toss, followed by Sweden’s No.1 Helena Engman and Romania’s Anca Heltne.

The Women’s 100m was the first of the Sprints. Laverne Jones, another ever-present at this meet, thundered to a 11.35 victory, having come third last year. Tahesia Harrigan and the Pole Klocek, who’s part of the Polish Olympic squad, took the minor medals. Kelly Proper made her first appearance of the day, and came away with a new PB of 11.68 (I think). Pretty sure it was wind-legal, but not 100%.

The Men’s 100m was a class race, with Paul Hession winning with 10.21 – his second fastest ever, and the fastest time ever on Irish soil. He looked so strong in the last 20m, and was met with a huge roar when he crossed the finish line in pole position.

The Women’s 1500m was a quiet, yet entertaining, affair. There were several no shows, including Sonja Roman who I was looking forward to see in action, which left seven in the field. The seven stayed together right ‘til the end, where the Indian Sinimole Paulose, who had bided her time for the first two laps in the middle of the pack, kicked past the Russian Tyurina and powered down the home straight to a winning time of around 4.16. The Russian took second, with another Indian in third. Rose-Anne Galligan was the best of the Irish. Fionnuala Britton was meant to be running too, and had been getting a lot of commentary from the announcer, but didn’t show up either. It may have been because she was pissed off with the announcer saying she was a Semi-finalist in Osaka, instead of a finalist!

The Men’s 1500m featured a strong line-up, including Allistair Cragg. Cragg finished second in a time around 3.39, with Bernard Kiptum, winning in 3.38. There were a few PB’s for other Irish runners.

Aliann Pompey of Guyana (second to Cuddihy last year) stormed to victory in the absence of Joanne Cuddihy in the 400m, in a time of 51.52, inside the Olympic A-standard. She has such an elegant style of running and was a pleasure to watch. I believe she’s coached by an Irishman in New York, who is the Team Manager, or some position like that, for Guyana at the Olympics. The German, can’t remember her name but I do remember reading that she was a former offender of the Doping variety in the past brought up the rear.

The Men’s High Jump was a very entertaining contest, although I was a bit away from it. It turned into a battle between Athens Bronze medallist, Baba of the Czech Rep., and Olympic bound Jamie Nieto of the U.S.A. The latter prevailed, clearing a meet record of 2.30, while Baba couldn't clear anything above 2.21m.

The Men’s 400m was another relatively quiet field, with American Olympic Trials Finalist, Greg Nixon, winning in a time of around 45.6. All the rest were outside 46 seconds, with Brian Doyle the best of the Irish with 47.1?.

Latvian Maris Urtans won the Men’s Shot by just one centimetre from Steve Manz, both of whom were over 20m. Fellow American Garreth Johnson took third. Scott Martins didn’t show up, which was disappointing.

The Women’s 3000m was a great race, with Amy Mortimer kicking away from the rest of the field to win in under the nine minute barrier (8.55). Maria McCambridge ran a great race, clocking a time of just outside 9 minutes.

Kelly Proper stole the show for the home crowd in the Women’s Long Jump. She finished second to the Pole Dobija, who won with a mark in and around 6.56. She first flew out to a new (wind legal, I’m sure) PB of 6.38, but improved that to a slightly windy 6.46m to take silver. She left former American champion Rose Richmond, former NCAA champion Brianna Glenn and 6.82m Canadian Tabia Charles (12th in the World) in her wake.

The Mardyke jinx continues for Derval O’ Rourke, who again missed out on first position to Andrea Bliss of Jamacia, who won the 100mh with 12.96, while O’ Rourke took second with 13 seconds flat. O’ Rourke did however beat Aurelia Trywianska of Poland, with whom she’s been racing all season, and who has un 12.8 this year.

The Men’s 3000m was won impressively by Kenyan, Mike Kigen, who was well under 8 minutes. Allistair Cragg doubled up in the 3000m, and took his second silver of the day, running inside 8 minutes too. There were again loads of PBs for other Irish athletes, like Rory Chesser, who finished in a time just outside 8 minutes.

Laverne Jones-Ferrette defended her 200m title in emphatic fashion, storming under 23 seconds, to a wind-legal 22.79. Batimala and Knight took the minor spots.

Paul Hession mimicked Laverne Jones’ sprint double by storming to a 20.67 Wind-legal 200m win over Chris Williams in the Men's 200m (who ran 20.20 last week at the Jamaican trials to join Usain Bolt in Beijing). He did a lap of honour afterwards, and was well received by everyone in the crowd. He was delighted with the win.

The IMC ran several races here too, which showed great promise.

To sum up, it was a fantastic day of athletics, and I’m looking forward to going again next year again. It was class walking past some of the big names in the sport, who I’ve been watching on T.V all year, like Laverne Jones, and seeming them in action for real. Nic Bideau was even there, with some of the Australian athletes.

Sorry if I’ve left out anything or the times aren’t 100% correct.

Rineanna

....or you could juts read the Athletics Ireland report!

http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=4490#more-4490

I'm actually in 4 or 5 of the pictures, but I'm not saying where!

Racing Flat

Anyone know why there were so many DNS's even from Irish athletes? Was it the weather?

Seems phenomenal from Cragg - how much time was there between events? I've never heard of such a double. He must be flying.

Rineanna

Seems phenomenal from Cragg - how much time was there between events? I've never heard of such a double. He must be flying.

There was in and around an hour between the two events, as per the timetable, but the 3000m field were out on the track waiting about 15-20 mins before the race, so he didn't have too much time in between. Some achievement to do a sub 3.40 and sub 8 second 1500m/3000m double within that short time span. He didn't look overly pushed either, which is good.

Anyone know why there were so many DNS's even from Irish athletes? Was it the weather?

A few people who were down to race, even in the programme, like Hazel Murphy and Mark Christie, were racing overseas today. Don't see what the advantage was to racing abroad, though. Some people might have entered yonks ago aswell, but their race plan might have changed since then. Injuries probably have an effect too.

I'd say the meet organisers were fairly pee'd off that Carolina Kluft didn't compete; she was really the star attraction, and was written about in some of the pieces in the programme (as well as being on its cover!). After her performance in Scotland last week, I'd imagine she might have decided to work on a few things instead.

ZiggyStardust

Good synopsis of Saturday Rineanna. Was there too and thought a very good day. Even the sun came out towards the end as well.
Couldn't believe when I heard Cragg running in 3000 50 minutes later. Thought he looked very comfortable in both races.

Czechrichie

I'm wondering if any of you here would be interested in helping out with a little voluntary work for Cork city sports next year, the main advantage is getting to meet what ever big names are coming a day or two before the event.
I'm in the liaison team that looks after the athletes and we were a bit short this year due to two unexpected dropouts for personal reasons.
most of the time its a nice buzz but we do get some drama queens (and thats not necessarily the ladies:rolleyes:).
if you can drive it would be even better.
let me know if you would be interested, we could do with expanding the team with some genuine athletics fans