Google+ Running in Cork, Ireland: Saturday Athletics...Leevale retain title, Irish Euro Qualifier & Irish team finish 3rd in Boston

Sunday, February 08, 2015

Saturday Athletics...Leevale retain title, Irish Euro Qualifier & Irish team finish 3rd in Boston

There were loads of athletic events on Saturday the 7th of Feb 2015.

Leevale AC retain League title.....The Leevale AC womens team from Cork retained their title on Saturday when they finished first in the National Indoor League Final held in Athlone. The Leevale mens team dropped to 3rd this year after their 1st place last year.


Report on Athletics Ireland website.


Irish team finish 3rd in Boston...An Irish team consisting of Claire Tarplee, Christine McMahon, Katie Kirk and Ciara Mageean finished third in the distance medley relay at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on Saturday night. You can see from the splits below that they were in 3rd place for the whole race.


1st leg 1200m...Claire Tarplee
2nd leg 400m...Christine McMahon
3rd leg 800m...Katie Kirk
4th leg 1600m...Ciara Mageean

Race video HERE but it really just concentrates on the first two teams.


At the same venue, Ciarán Ó Lionáird dropped out of the 1500m race after about 4 laps.

Euro Qualifying Time.....At an indoors athletics meet in Gent, Belgium, Ger O'Donnell of Carrick AC won the mens 60m hurdles race. In the heats, Ger ran a PB of 7.87 seconds, just outside the qualifying time of 7.78 for the European Indoor Championships in Prague in March. In the final race later in the evening, Ger ran even faster to win the race in 7.73 seconds....a new PB, a European Championship qualifying time and 3rd fastest on the Irish all time list.



Race video....

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