2017 Results

Pherekydes

Indoor season has begun and is starting to pick up speed. The National Juniors and U23s were on today. Pride of place must go to 17 year-old Ciara Neville, who tied the senior 60m record with 7.30.

jamule

Pherekydes wrote: »

Indoor season has begun and is starting to pick up speed. The National Juniors and U23s were on today. Pride of place must go to 17 year-old Ciara Neville, who tied the senior 60m record with 7.30.

The womens sprint records are gonna take some hanmering in the next few years. There seems to be a glut of really good girls coming through, hopefully their still around after the lost years

Myles Splitz

Update on some results over the past few weekends

- Sarah Collins with a 15.54 indoor, season opener in Boston
- Siofra Cleirigh Buttner with a 2.02.97 in Colombia, nearly a second faster than last years indoor season and 0.6 off her outdoor PB from last year
- Brian Gregan opened season at weekend with a 47.07 Euro indoor qualifier
- Phil Healy followed up her 7.40 and 7.36 runs from two weeks ago (inside Euro Standard) with an impressive double in Vienna at the weekend running 7.42 and following it up with a 53.78 just 0.03 outside the 400m standard and she continues to improve over the longer distance
- Hugh Armstrong opened his indoor season with a 14.06 in the US.
- Eoin Everard solo'ed a 3.45 for 1500m in Athlone at the leagues over weekend almost 10 seconds ahead of next competitor.

Forge83

What is the story with Sarah Collins?
She hasn't done much on this side of the water in a few years.
Has she been injured or focusing solely on NCAA?
Surely would have been a strong addition to the women's XC team..

horsebox1977

Junior TJ record too by the looks of it - 14.90

KielyUnusual

https://twitter.com/irishathletics/status/833416864046911488

Myles Splitz

Some results which flew under the radar the last week prior to National Seniors at weekend

- Fionnuala McCormick 5th in a strong field at Barcelona Half in 71.35
- Ben Reynolds 5th in 7.87 in Birmingham GP

average_runner

Myles Splitz wrote: »

Some results which flew under the radar the last week prior to National Seniors at weekend

- Fionnuala McCormick 5th in a strong field at Barcelona Half in 71.35
- Ben Reynolds 5th in 7.87 in Birmingham GP

Did she not run in the 3,000m indoors at the nationals also?

RayCun

average_runner wrote: »

Did she not run in the 3,000m indoors at the nationals also?

She did.

I guess she's targeting a spring marathon? Any ideas which one?

Myles Splitz

Amy Foster running 11.42 to achieve the Commonwealth Games standard for next year down in Aus for 3rd (2.0 wind)

Catherine Whoriskey with an 11th place finish in Seville Marathon in a 2.48.41 debut

KielyUnusual

http://lindienaughton.com/strong-runs-from-mark-english-paul-robinson-and-brian-gregan/

Great to see Paul Robinson back in good form and a promising opener from Mark English too.

El Caballo

Stephen Scullion looks to be hitting some crackinh form right now after his big PB in the London marathon. Ran 28:58 last night in the Portland Track festival 10,000m in his debut at the distance. Serious running considering he was out for 8 months not too long ago.

Pherekydes

Michaela Walsh won two events in the England U-20 champs today, breaking her own National Junior records in both!

16.04m Shot and 62.62m Hammer.

El Caballo

Mark English ran 1:45.42 today in the Stockholm Diamond league to take second anď a new SB by over half a second.

OOnegative

El Caballo wrote: »

Mark English ran 1:45.42 today in the Stockholm Diamond league to take second anď a new SB by over half a second.

And qualify himself for World Championships in the process.

Pherekydes

16 year-old Kate O'Connor scored 5632pts in the European Combined Events Team Championships, 2nd league, this weekend in Monzón. It's only 37 pts off the new national record, set by another teenager, Elizabeth Morland.

It's great to see two great young talents in one event which has been historically quite weak.

Chivito550

One of the best runs of the year by an Irish athlete has been missed here. Brian Gregan 45.48 in Switzerland to get the 400m standard for London, bettering a 4 year old PB. Goes to second on Irish all time list.

That brings our number of non marathon non walkers (aka stadium athletes) for London from 4 to 5. Can't see it moving from that, but hope I'm wrong.

spc78

Chivito550 wrote: »

That brings our number of non marathon non walkers (aka stadium athletes) for London from 4 to 5. Can't see it moving from that, but hope I'm wrong.

The steeplechasers are going for the women's standard this Friday in Letterkenny

Chivito550

spc78 wrote: »

The steeplechasers are going for the women's standard this Friday in Letterkenny

On recent form the odds on either of them hitting sub 9:42 are quite long indeed. Treacy who is injured, is the only one of the 3 to ever run that time before. 9:55 for Finn and 9:57 for O'Flaherty this week in Hungary is not very encouraging.

Pherekydes

National Junior Record for the 4x1 team tonight in Lausanne. 44.31 by Molly Scott, Sharlene Mawdsley, Gina Akpe-Moses and Ciara Neville.

It's also the fifth fastest time ever by an Irish quartet.

Pherekydes

I'm open to correction, but I believe it might be a national Under23 record, too!

pconn062

4.22.40 for Ciara Mageann in the mile at the London Anniversary Games, PB. Mark English well off the pace in the 800m, was never in the race and finished last.

Testosterscone

pconn062 wrote: »

4.22.40 for Ciara Mageann in the mile at the London Anniversary Games, PB. Mark English well off the pace in the 800m, was never in the race and finished last.

2nd fastest behind Sonia on all time list

Few other results from today

- New NR for Northern Ireland in the 4x100 in 40.35 (Smyth, Reid, Adams, Robinson)
- Paul Byrne with World Uni Standard in Brussels with a big PB in 400mh (50.03)

El Caballo

Sean Tobin finished 12th Overall today at NCAA Division 1 XC Nationals running 29:39 for the 10k distance. Serious Performance that gains him another All-American Honour.