20th July 2008 - Results and Fixtures

CURLEY SELECTED FOR BEIJING AND NATIONAL TITLE FOR KENNEDY
Sunday 20th July was an historic day for Tullamore Harriers with Pauline Curley selected for the Marathon at the Beijing Olympics and Gordon Kennedy winning the clubs first men’s national track title. In April Pauline had run 2.39.01 at the Rotterdam Marathon, which was inside the B qualifying Olympic standard but her participation was only confirmed following Sunday’s National Track & Field Championships. Naturally Pauline was very excited and a little shocked on hearing the news but is looking forward to the Olympic challenge.

Gordon Kennedy came into the National Track & Field Championships in Santry having run a season best 400 metres the previous Sunday at the Flanders Cup in Ghent Belgium. Gordon ran 46.76 to take second place behind Mitch Potter USA in 46.66 just edging out Jamaican Barret De Waybe in third place. Having won his heat on Saturday in 48.62 Gordon was in lane 3 for Sunday’s final. With the favourable lane position Gordon was fast out of the blocks setting the pace and leading coming into the home straight ran strong to cross the line in 46.91 to take the title, with Brian Boyle Finn Valley AC second in 47.17 and Brian Gregan Tallaght AC third in 47.43.
Richie Faulkner ran 4.52.62 in the heats of the 1,500 and Joe Mulligan was 4th in the Junior 35lb for Height.
Galway man Paul Hession of Athenry AC ran a brilliant 10.25 to retain his 100 metres title and the Paddy Larkin Trophy as National 100 metre champion.

HARRIERS IN NATIONAL TRACK & LEAGUE FINAL
Both the Women’s and Men’s teams have qualified for the League Finals to be held in Tullamore next Sunday. The Men’s team competing in the Premier Division qualified in fifth place and will line out against Clonliffe Harriers AC, North Down, Leevale AC, Shercock AC, Menapians AC, Meath Athletics and Dundrum South Dublin. The Women’s team qualified in fourth place in Division 1 and will compete against North Down, Meath Athletics, Ballymena & Antrim AC, Galway County, St Abbans AC, Clonliffe Harriers AC and Finn Valley AC. Your support on the day for the teams would be much appreciated and to round the day off a buffet will be held for all club members in Clonmore House, Arden Road at 8.30pm with tickets costing €10 available from the club captains.

NEWS ROUND UP
At the Triathlone on Saturday 12th July a field of 850 took part in the sprint triathlon with John O’Connell finishing in 129th place in an overall time of 1.24.27, his split times were swim 15.42, bike 38.59, run 19.34.

Fixtures :
Sunday 27th July, National League Final, Tullamore.
Friday 1st August, Daingean 5k.
Saturday 9th August, National Masters Track & Field Championships, Tullamore.

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.