16th June 2008 - Results and Fixtures

LEAGUE FINAL QUALIFICATION FOR WOMEN AND MEN
The second round of the National Track & Field League was held in Santry last Sunday with both the women and men’s teams securing a place in the final to be held in Tullamore on Sunday 27th July. The ladies faced strong competition from Ballymena & Antrim (111 points) and Clonliffe Harriers (104 points) but had event winners on the day in Ann-Marie Larkin, Georgina Touhey and Emer Brennan. Together with valuable hard won points in the other events scored 92 points for a total over the two rounds of 199 points to qualify in fourth place behind North Down (216 points) Meath (214 points) and Ballymena & Antrim (200 points).

The men were lying in tenth place going into the second round but put in a massive performance to make the top eight for the final. With Gordon Kennedy, Eoin Hannon, Paul Buckley, Babu Mathew winning six events between them and a number of other high scoring places to give a total of 115 points for second place behind winners Clonliffe Harriers (127 points). A combined total of 198.5 points lifted the team to fifth place behind Clonliffe Harriers 241 points, North Down 227 points, Leevale 215 points, and Shercock 205 points. Best of luck to both teams in the final.

Women : 100m 4 Niamh Mullen 13.53, 200m 5 Colette Boland 31.22, 400m 3 Ann-Marie Larkin 58.53, 800m 1 Ann-Marie Larkin 2.15.02, 1,500m 2 Pauline Lambe 4.57.22, 3,000m 2 Pauline Curley 10.58.55, 1,500m Walk 1 Georgina Touhey 6.57.16, 100m Hurdles 3 Aine Brennan 17.03, 400m Hurdles 5 Emer Brennan 74.65, High Jump 4 Aine Brennan 1.30, Long Jump 1 Emer Brennan 4.91, Triple Jump 2 Aine Brennan 10.45, Shot Putt 6 Lorna Mangan 6.26, Javelin 5 Lorna Mangan 18.46, Hammer 4 Lisa Dolan 22.89, Discus 4 Lisa Dolan 20.86, 4 x 100 Relay 5 (Aine Brennan, Emer Brennan, Niamh Mullen, Colette Boland) 54.07, 4 x 400 Relay 5 (Aine Brennan, Colette Boland, Pauline Lambe, Pauline Curley) 4.31.18

Men : 100m 1 Gordon Kennedy 10.93, 200m 1 Gordon Kennedy 21.86, 400m 3 Fearghus Hannon 52.49, 800m 4 Catch Grennan 2.02.99, 1,500m 3 Declan Fahy 4.18.53, 5,000m 1 Paul Buckley 15.33.11, 3,000m Steeplechase 3 Michael Murphy 10.46.22, 3,000m Walk 4 Larry Rigney 20.58.95, 110m Hurdles 4 Michael Murphy 28.22, 400m Hurdles 3 Damien Lawlor 71.95, High Jump 4 Michael Murphy 1.40, Long Jump 1 Eoin Hannon 6.56, Triple Jump 1 Eoin Hannon 13.08, Pole Vault 4 Darragh Hanlon 2.80, Shot Putt 2 Babu Mathew 12.58, Discus 3 Tom Raftery 33.12, Hammer 5 Jim Dolan 19.99, Javelin 3 Tom Raftery 47.60, 56lb for Distance 1 Babu Mathew 5.65, 4 x 100 Relay 3 (Gordon Kennedy, Fearghus Hannon, Paddy O’Flaherty, Darragh Hanlon) 47.92, 4 x 400 Relay 2 (Gordon Kennedy, Catch Grennan, Paddy O’Flaherty, Feargus Hannon) 3.32.57

Babu Mathew

Colette Boland

Damien Lawlor

Georgina Tuohey

Gordon Kennedy

Lorna Mangan

Michael Murphy

Tom Raftery


IMPRESSIVE RUN BY KENNEDY IN RELAY BID
It’s still all to play for the Irish 4x400 relay team after a third place finish in Namur Belgium on Saturday night. Running the second leg Gordon ran 45.9 as the Irish team with Paul McKee, Brian Doyle and David Gillick recorded a time of 3.04.71 behind Belgium 3.02.16 and South Africia 3.04.66. A time of 3.04.30 in next weeks European Cup in Tallin Estonia would see them just make the current top 16 list for Beijing. Once again Gordon makes the team for Tallin along with David Gillick, Paul McKee, Brian Doyle and Brian Murphy.

Fixtures :
Thursday 19th June, Peter English 625.
Sunday 29th June, AAI Junior & U23 T&F Championships.
Sunday 6th July, Marian Geraghty 10k, Mount Bolus.
Thursday 10th July, Offaly Senior/Master/Junior T&F Championships.

Training : Tuesday and Thursday at 6.30pm, Sunday morning at 8.30am (except on a race day) all are welcome.

See the club website tullamoreharriers.com

Circuit training led by Adrian Brennan every Wednesday at 7pm.

The club wishes to extend condolences to Claire Collins on the death of her father Michael.