Tallaght Juveniles Shine again in Championships

Our juveniles had an extremely busy schedule last weekend with a number of them competing in both the Dublin Track & Field Championships in Santry and the National Community Games cross country finals in Mosney. Although this meant a lot of travelling from one venue to the other for the likes of Conor Murray, Jade Johnston, John Daly, Keith Doherty and Killian Morris, they all drew on their reserves of stamina and contributed to the haul of 31 Championship medals for the club.
Conor Murray was in tremendous form in the U13 category when he took the 600m title in a great time of 1.41.3 on the Friday evening and again on Saturday when he handed over the baton in 1st place for the Dublin Community Games team, after running the 600m leg of the U12 cross country relay in Mosney. Conor travelled back to Santry to take bronze in the U13 long jump championships and on Sunday, after another good run in the cross country relay in Mosney where he helped the Dublin team to 4th placed certificates he returned to Santry again to take the high jump title in a new P.B., and secured silver in both the shot putt and javelin and bronze in the 80m.

Keith Doherty was another competing on both stages and in addition to helping the Dublin team secure 4th place certificates in Mosney, after two good 600m final leg runs on both Saturday and Sunday mornings in the U14 mixed distance cross country relay he also travelled back to Santry where he won Dublin titles in the both the U14 100m and long jump and added bronze in the javelin and shot putt.
John Daly, Jade Johnston and Killian Morris competed in Mosney as members of the U13 Dublin Community mixed (boys & girls) cross country team. Running over a distance of 1200m in the semi-final on Saturday morning, John finished 3rd overall with Jade well up in the top 20 runners and Killian a few places further back in the field of more than 80 runners. Although the team did not qualify for the final the trio put in some sterling performances on their return to Santry for the track & field championships, where John Daly secured the U14 1500m title, Jade the U13 javelin title and bronze in the 600m and Killian bronze in the U14 high jump contest in which club-mate Sean Mc Cabe scaled the same heights, but lost out on count back. Sean also missed out on the medals when finishing 4th in the U14 100m final.

At U10 degree, Eamonn Conroy took the long jump title after taking bronze in the 300m final and Fionn Carroll took another title for the club in the 60m sprint, whilst Eoin Doherty had to settle for silver after a very close finish in the U12 80m sprint final.

In his first Dublin Championships Eoin Reardon was in great for in the field events, securing the U14 hammer title, silver in the javelin and bronze in the discus, whilst Sean Fitzsimons took bronze in the U16 discus final. The U16 girl’s javelin competition saw two Tallaght athletes fighting it out to the finish, with Zara Gaynor eventually topping the podium ahead of Robyn Reece in the final few throws.
At U18 degree, Rebecca game won silver in both the 200m and 300m sprints and Ciaran Mackey, in his first championships took silver in the 200m and bronze in the 300m. Christine Reardon rounded off the weekend for the club when taking Gold in both the U18 Hammer and Discus finals.

Photos Courtsey of John Denny