Mr Oil County Track & Field Championships
The highlight of many athletes season is the chance to become County Champion in their chosen event while for others its a chance to try an event or simply watch the counties finest athletes show off their talent.
All club athletes proudly wearing their clubs colours while chasing the elusive medals and the glory it brings.
A wonderful evening of bright skies and reacquainting with old adversaries awaited our clubs athletes as they arrived into Enniscorthy and heading to the Sports Hub.
A big well done to everyone who competed and congratulations to our medal winners
Senior Women 2000m Steeplechase Helen Wallace Gold
Club results:
2000m Walk Sharron Dier 6th
2000m Walk Senior Men John Dier Silver
800m Women O35 Ilze Bedrite Gold
800m Women O50 Catherine O’Connor Gold, Nora Boggan Silver
200m Senior Women Helen Wallace 5th in heat
200m Women O35 Ilze Bedrite Gold
200m Women O50 Nora Boggan Silver
200m Men O50 John Dier 5th
4x400m relay Women 4th
3000m Senior Women Helen Wallace Bronze
3000m Women O35 Ilze Bedrite Silver
3000m Women O50 Catherine O’Connor Gold, Nora Boggan Bronze
3000m U16 Boys Alex Lonergan Gold
5000m Men O35 Rob Casey 4th
Shot Putt Women O50 Samantha Donegan Silver
Shot Putt Men O50 John Dier 5th
Weight for Distance women O50 Samantha Donegan Bronze
Community Games
Brilliant result for Fiachra Mehigan today as he competed for Ballymitty in the Community Games Long Jump.
He broke his PB, secured silver and qualified for the Nationals of the Community Games.
Good man Fiachra
Mr Oil County B Championships
These Championships are aimed at athletes who did not win medals at the County Championships giving a second chance. It also puts a huge emphasis on inclusion making sure the young athletes enjoy the competition. The weather wasn't what we would hope for on Summer Solstice Day but that didn't deter the athletes.
Chloe Carroll, Kayla Lyons, Clodagh Long, Benny lonergan & Este Lonergan all put in great effort across the events really enjoying the Track & Field experience.
Leon spudic was 2nd in his shot putt.
Emmet Marcus was 1st in long jump, 2nd in his 80m sprint.
Sonny Lowney was1st in 300m & 1st in shot putt.
Fionn murphy was 3rd in his turbo javelin.
Pádraig, Catherine and Siobhan were officiating and Liam was our club coach on the night.
Alex Lonergan had his first experience of officiating and loved every minute well done Alex.
This completes the season for these young athletes, enjoy the Summer and we go again in September.
Viking Half and Quarter Marathon
An early drive to Waterford and a warm morning for the road runners earlier today as they headed to tackle the Viking runs. Some tackling a half for the first time and comfortably completed it with a smile and a smirk. Others more used to the distance ticked off another one on the list. For some it was their first time competing as a Menapian while others have countless events under their belt and one returning after a few years. The Quarter Marathon is a unique race distance which does not appear too often on the race calender. The Half Marathon is a distance that is becoming more popular amongst runners hence the interest in this one not far from home. We had 8 in the Half and 3 in the Quarter Marathon.
A very warm day added an extra challenge to the event but thankfully everyone came through OK . Training plans paid off as everyone reported being happy with their finish time. Also nice to see one of our old training buddies Caimin still running as he met up with Enda.
Quarter Marathon :
Rob Casey 57:44
Ger Mulhall 58:41
Linda Leacy 1:06:57
Half Marathon :
Brian Smyth 1:33:08
Ryan Ellard 1:40:16 (P.B.)
John Hyland 1:46:01 (1stHalf)
Jesse Kielthy 2:02:21
Ollie Stack 2:06:00 (P.B.)
Enda O'Sullivan 2:13:23
Grainne Hayes 2:28:30 (1st Half)
Jamie Jordan 2:33:58
parkrun
A warm morning so why not get an early run complete, well despite the Viking run taking place on Sunday there was still a good crew out on Saturday morning.
Paul Harpur took a spin down to JFK Park for the New Ross Parkrun.
Paula Gondard, Gareth Lloyd, Alex Parris, Geoff Hoffheinz, Brian Smyth, Rob Mehigan, Mary Cronin, Michael Murphy, Martin Kelly, Sharron Dier, Bridie McGuire & John Hyland all completed the Wexford Racecourse Parkrun.
Dermot Foley had the most unusual run of the weekend getting his Saturday morning 5k complete in Lanzarote.