Lieghio Into Europe

After finishing second in the National U23 Championships in Tullamore where he clocked 1.51.76 for the 800m Anthony Lieghio vowed to make the European qualifying standard and he certainly lived up to his word at an International meet in Holland last weekend were he proved he was on top of his game when crossing the finish line in 1.48.17 almost 2 seconds clear of his nearest rival. He will without doubt and in his own words “wear the Irish vest with Pride” in the forthcoming European U23 Championships.

Anthony’s success certainly put the icing on the cake for the club after many more of the clubs athletes scored well in other recent competitions. Tomas Fitzpatrick also competed on the continent last weekend where he also had another good run over 3,000m, clocking 8.06.99 at a meet in Belgium whilst Sean Connolly ran 8.16.26 over the same distance at the Cork City Sports meet a few weeks earlier. This followed a previous outing in the BMC meet in Watford where both ran the 5,000m with Sean crossing the line in 3rd in 13.55 and Tomas in 14.11, and in between Sean had another good outing in Holland where he recorded 29.8 in a 10,00m contest.

Keith Doherty	John Daly

In the 5th meet of the Dublin Graded League Series in Irishtown Keith Doherty won the grade “B” 200m in 23.34 after Artjom Kutjavin won the grade “C” 200m in 24.77 and he followed up with a 4.15.3 when finishing 3rd in the grade “B” 1500m in which Luke Coleman clocked 4.24.84. Sean Mc Cabe won the Grade “C” in 4.29.63 and John Daly crossed the line in the “D” in 4.53.08.

Artjom Kutjavin	Sean Mc Cabe

Our juveniles were again in fine form in recent weeks. After winning many medals and National qualification in the Dublin Individual T&F Championships continued in style in the relay contests where they combined well to take 5 titles and 2 sets of Silver medals.

The U15 boys Sam Morrison, Eoin Doherty, Epey Clincy Mutanga and Joseph Ojewumi won their 4X100m final in 47.9 with 7.5 seconds to spare over their nearest rivals and Sam Morrison again teamed up with Sean Flanagan, Cathal Dervan and Mustaffe Nasir to win the U14 4X100m in 55.3, whilst both Epey and Joseph combined with Conor Murray and Dylan Kennedy to take the U16 contest with a combined time of 46.7.

At U17 degree Sean Mc Cabe, Killian Morris, Conor Murray and Keith Doherty ran 46.3 when winning the 4X100m and Keith and Sean together with John Daly and Bonaface Chege added silver in the 4X400m in a time of 3.41.5., whilst Philip Murray, Uchenna Uwechue, John Daly and Sean Mc Cabe combined to take the U18 4X400m title in 3.51.5 and 2nd in the 4X100m with a time of 49.4.

On the same weekend Aloisa King won Silver, only 2 seconds off the winner in the Dublin Grand Prix of Race Walking which was held in the Phoenix Park whilst Keith Doherty finished 5th & 6th respectively in the 100m & 200m clocking 11.79 and 23.71at the AVIVA Tailteann Irish Schools’ Interprovincial Track and Field Championships in Tullamore.

Some of our juveniles will be looking forward to the National T&F Championships in Tullamore next weekend whilst a number of our seniors will be contesting the 6th meet of the Dublin Graded League Series in Santry and on Sunday 17th we will be contesting Round2 of the National T&F League in Athlone.