Cork City Sports 2012

runjb

With just two weeks to go to Ireland's most prestigious T&F event the list of athletes competing continues to grow.

Cork City Sports have just landed a major coop attracting Jeremy Wariner to the event. The third fastest man ever over 400m, with numerous world and Olympic titles to his name. Looks like he'll be up against our own Brian Gregan, once he recovers in time from his injury in Helsinki. This is really big for the meet and should hopefully now lift it's stature to even greater heights.

EauRouge79

Good stuff, ill pop along to that. Good to have it on a weekday evening as well.
Jessie Barr from Womens 400m Hurdles also plan to run.

BobMac104

Hoping to make this also. Looks like it will be a good event.If the weather holds up at all it should be a great evening. It will be great to see gregan and barr in fairness!

Rhys Essien

Is Wariner in the Olympics?

Rhys Essien

Also,Is Sarah Collins taking part and If not,why not?

notsofast

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Is Wariner in the Olympics?

LaShawn Merritt, Tony McQuay and Bryshon Nellum were first three at Olympic trials.
Wariner came 6th so misses out.

notsofast

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Also,Is Sarah Collins taking part and If not,why not?

She doesn't have the A standard so will not be taking part... this year. One for the future.

Rhys Essien

notsofast wrote: »

She doesn't have the A standard so will not be taking part... this year. One for the future.

I mean,Will she be running in the Cork City sports?

BobMac104

I read in the southernstar that mad len is penciled in to run in the Cork city sports. The mile i presume.

http://www.southernstar.ie/article.php?id=3544

pa4

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Is Wariner in the Olympics?

He will probably be on the relay team.

runjb

The line up is getting better by the day! Olympic silver medalist Shericka Williams of Jamaica is now confirmed for the 400m. It'll make for a great race for Joanne Cuddihy and the 400m relay squad!

http://www.corkcitysports.ie/viewpage.php?memid=183&parent=183

Rineanna

Provisional start lists are up: http://www.corkcitysports.ie/mm2012/ccs_start1.pdf

Some smoking fields if everyone shows up. Men's 400m flat and hurdles looks particularly strong, while 11 men with sub-4 credentials in the mile.

Rhys Essien

Good to see Collis Birmingham in the 3000m here.He ran a great race on friday night in London to finish second to Mo Farah in the 5000m.

runjb

http://www.corkcitysports.ie/viewpage.php?memid=191&parent=191

Piece on Ciarán O'Lionaird as he goes in the mile race.

BobMac104

Its gonna be awesome!!! cant wait.

EauRouge79

Should stay dry as well

tHE vAGGABOND

Interested to see how Mad Len goes...

ecoli

Top marks to organisers for some great fields loads of top class athletes

Will be interested to see how Ciara M goes against Lucy Van Dalen will be a nice indication of how she would have faired in the US Collegiate system (LvD was 1st in indoor mile and fourth in 1500m at NCAAs this year (2nd last year))

The mens 400mh has a youthful look but none the less a top class field with 3 sub 50 runners

The womens 400m is one of the stand out events with four of the 4x400m pool runners in action along with Olympic Silver medalist Shericka Williams

Womens 3k is also a strong one

Mens mile is top quality also with a very strong line up which should see a fair few sub 4s.

Has Wariner been scratched?

None the less I think even the notorious wind of the Mardyke can hamper such a great event. Raging I am missing it though optimistically hoping someone will post a link to a stream

(Doubtful but I had to try )

a_non_a_mouse

<quote> None the less I think even the notorious wind of the Mardyke can hamper such a great event.
</quote>

Its in the CIT

No Wariner in start lists..... wonder what happened there....

ecoli

a_non_a_mouse wrote: »

<quote> None the less I think even the notorious wind of the Mardyke can hamper such a great event.
</quote>

Its in the CIT

No Wariner in start lists..... wonder what happened there....

Not enough coffee today

Woddle

Wariner had got into the London Diamond league so scratched Cork according to the indo.

Rhys Essien

Great event last night and very good turnout.

Rob Heffernan and Olive Loughnane were on fire.

Collis Bermingham was very impressive in the 3000m.Id say potential medal in London.

Id say Mad Len wont be too happy with 5th place although top 5 finishers under 4 minutes.

ecoli

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Great event last night and very good turnout.

Rob Heffernan and Olive Loughnane were on fire.

Collis Bermingham was very impressive in the 3000m.Id say potential medal in London.

Id say Mad Len wont be too happy with 5th place although top 5 finishers under 4 minutes.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/other-sports/o-lionaird-confident-he-is-hitting-top-gear-as-london-nears-201156.html

BobMac104

It was a cracking evening in fairness. The buzz about the place for the mens mile and the 3000m walk were amazing.

I also thought Len was gonna do it with 200m left. He seems happy enough though. Interesting to see how he goes in the Morton mile.

Irish athletes did very well overall i think. The 400m womens was great and id say joanne is pretty pleased with that time.

BobMac104

http://www.corkcitysports.ie/mm2012/ccs_res.htm

full results.

Pherekydes

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Collis Bermingham was very impressive in the 3000m.Id say potential medal in London.

In what sport? :eek: