At the concluding day of the Dublin Juvenile
Indoor Track and Field Championships at Santry last Sunday, Tallaght AC
juveniles were again in good form, securing an additional 6 medals and
National qualification.
In the 200m contests Rebecca Game went top of the podium with an
emphatic win at U18 level whilst Karl Arkins secured bronze at U16
degree and later added another in the long jump event. At U17 degree,
David O’ Brien produced some good efforts in his first Championship
outing to take bronze in the long jump, whilst Niall Meehan took silver
in the high jump contest, and in the U18 shot putt, Christine Reardon
produced some solid throws to take silver.
Elsewhere on the same day, a number of Tallaght juvenile athletes were
again to the fore when representing their local areas in the Dublin
Community Games cross country finals in Tymon Park.
The event kicked off with Cherish Cannon, representing Killinarden
securing her place on the Dublin U12 mixed distance relay squad, after
finishing 4th in the 500m contest. In the boy’s equivalent, Conor
Murray, representing Kilnamanagh did likewise with an emphatic win, and
he was followed home in second by Aaron Conroy who also represented the
same area, with Evan Flynn, representing Oldbawn, also securing his
place on the 6 man squad.
In the U13 contests, run over a distance of 1200m, John Daly,
representing Limekiln took the gold medal convincingly in the boy’s
contest, with Eoghan Mc Donagh the Killinarden representative following
him home in 2nd, whilst in the girls equivalent Jade Johnston, was also
a convincing winner for Killinarden, with Savanah Hurley also featuring
for Killinarden in 3rd position.
At U14 degree, Keith Doherty secured a place for Kilnamanagh on the
Dublin mixed distance relay squad after his third place finish in the
700m contest.
All the Community games qualifiers will be looking forward to the
National finals to be held in Mosney in May whilst the Santry medal
winners will be Nenagh bound in April for the AAI National Juvenile
Indoor Championships