South Leinster Track & Field
The South Leinster T&F continued in SETU Carlow with some of our athletes competing for their schools.

Josh Nolan in CBS Wexford colours won a fantastic bronze in Javelin which qualifies him for the Leinsters , well done.

Orla Dolan Presentation Wexford came 5th in her hurdles race threw her Javelin 12 metres and was part of the relay team who reached the final.

Lucas Page Redmond St Peters qualified for 200m final and finished 3rd overall. He also ran 100m and qualified for final but saved himself for relay.

Elijah Page Redmond St Peters threw well for 5th place in Javelin.

The relay team was Lucas, Elijah, Rowyn and Cameron who all ran a brilliant race and qualified for final. ( Finishing 4 th) Unfortunately they were disqualified on technical fault.

.Alex Lonergan representing St Peters jumping well for 7th place in the long jump.

Well done to everyone and good luck Josh in the Leinsters

Enniscorthy AC Open

At the recent Enniscorthy Athletic Club T&F event held at the Sports Hub our of our senior coaches Catherine O’Connor stepped on to the tartan track competing in the 1500m

Well done Catherine.

Mr Oil County Throws Championship

Menapians AC were well represented at the Mr Oil County Championship Throws night on Friday 3rd May ki dly hosted by DMP Athletic Club.

Samantha Donegan won bronze in the women’s discus competition with a pb of 13.99m.

Tracey Nolan came 4th with a throw of 13.15m.

Orla Redmond came 5th with a throw of 10.27m.

In the hammer competition Tracey came 4th with a throw of 13.13m and Samantha came 5th with a throw of 8.86m.

Well done ladies!

We had 2 juveniles competing in the under 16 hammer throw and both succeeded in bringing home medals.

Alex Lonergan won gold with a throw of 19.89m

Lorcan Carroll won silver with a throw of 14.99.

Alex also competed in the discus and came 1st with a throw of 14.50m.

Congratulations to both boys. Congratulations also to the coaches of both our juvenile and lady competitors.

Thanks also to the 3 club members who acted as officials on the night. Helen Sinnott and Tadhg Henderson were responsible for the registrations and Siobhan Doyle was the Children’s officer.

Leinster Masters Novice Road Race

A short drive into Kilkenny saw Catherine O’Connor arrive in Gowran which was the venue for the Leinster Masters Novice Road Race. Catherine had a superb run finishing 51st overall in a field of 157 athletes and she was 6th in her age category.

Huge congratulations Catherine.

Mr Oil County Juvenile Championships

Another sunny if cool gathering for day 2 of the Mr. Oil County Championships at the Sports Hub in Enniscorthy.

With a change to the program this year meaning the younger athletes competing next Friday evening, the club was represented by a solid turnout of 12 competitors in the Under 12’s category and older.

Our sole representative in under 12's, Fionn Murphy, came with a great attitude and enjoyed participating in 100m sprint where he made the final, turbo javelin, 600m middle distance and finally high jump where he just missed out on the medals finishing fourth.

In under 13’s, Leon Spudic tried the javelin, while Amy Conde and Ciara Walsh did long jump, 100m sprint, javelin and shot put.

Rory Henderson competed in under 15’s in shot put, 100m sprint, long jump and he gave the middle distance 1,500m a go. Rory finished the day with a great bronze result in javelin.

Under 16's had the biggest turnout from our club with a total of six athletes. Meabh McCormack and Orla Dolan took on the same set of events competing brilliantly in Long Jump with Silver for Meabh and Bronze for Orla. Both also put in solid performances in 100m sprint, javelin and shot put. Meanwhile Lorcan Caroll ran 100m sprint, and in the field took on long jump, shot put and javelin. Alex Lonergan made the final in the 100m and put in a super performance in the 1,500m middle distance to take silver. Alex also did long jump, shot put and javelin. Josh Nolan jumped really well in long jump taking bronze, he also did 100m sprint making the final, shot put and some super throwing snagged him silver in javelin. Elijah Page Redmond excelled at shot put taking gold, also made the final in the 100m sprint and did long jump before taking gold in the javelin to finish.

The multi talented Lucas Page Redmond dominated his events taking three Gold medals in 100m sprint, javelin and shot put.

A great day and with the younger athletes not being present all were happy with a shorter day to leave plenty of time to enjoy the afternoon sunshine elsewhere.

Thanks to all our volunteer coaches and officials Louise, Helen, Catherine,Tadhg, Liam , Padraig, Tracey & Siobhan for their time on a Bank Holiday Sunday.

Taghmon Handball Club 5k

A local 5k took place in Taghmon as a fundraiser for the local handball club. A successful first event last year so they kept it on the calender. Nice weather for running saw good times at the finish line.

7 of our members were taking part with Tony having a great run finishing in 3rd place and Paula having a great run finishing 3rd lady, congratulations Tony & Paula.

• 3rd Tony Harpur 19:04

• 8th Dermot Foley 20:21

• 17th Paula Gondard 23:53

• 22nd John Dier 25:18

• 29th Helen Burrell 29:56

• 52nd Bride McGuire 40:43

• 55th Sharron Dier 41:30

parkrun

At Wexford Racecourse Parkrun Dermot Foley, Fran Power, Brian Smyth, Ali Ashgar Khoyee John Dier, Gareth Lloyd, Sarah Bermingham, Ann Thomas, Helen Burrell, Mary Cronin, Michael Murphy, Bridie McGuire, Darren O'Grady & Martin Kelly completed their Saturday 5k.

Rob Casey was at the Ennis Parkrun and Enda O'Sullivan was at the Cloughjordan parkrun completing their 5k runs.