Shinkins & Reilly Continue Fine Form
Carroll's Back On Track
Winners from Antrim
Leevale's Mark Carroll placed second in the 3,000 metre event in 7.57.27
at the Norwich Union Classic - Grand Prix II meeting held in Gateshead, England
on 19th August.
Sarah Reilly placed eighth in the rarely run 300m race in 37.30, while
Andrew Walker placed 11th in 3:51.61 in the 1,500m.
Fortis-Memorial Leo Calewaert
Brasschaat, Belgium
15th August
110m hurdles
Heat1 - 5th, Peter Coghlan, Crusaders, 14.27 (-1.1)
Heat 2 - 3rd, Paul Conroy, 14.83 (-0.4)
800m
Heat 1 - 8th David Kelly, 1.50.82
Junior 800m Heat 1, 9th, John Eves, 1:57.42
400m hurdles
Heat 2 - 5th Michelle Carey, 61.65
Mile
3rd, Aoife Byrne, 4:38.5 (1,500m time = 4:20.90)
300 Meter
1st, Karen Shinkins, 37.07
3rd, Martina McCarthy, 38.35
High Jump
3rd, Deidre Ryan, 1.74m
Antrim games
Here's some results from Maeve Kyle, the meet director for the Antrim games.
Winners:
300m Hurdles (M) Ian Neely 38.9
100m W Ciara Sheehy 12.27
100m M John McAdorey 10.54
Mark Howard 10.57
Jer O'Donoghue 10.99
300 W Ciara Sheehy 38.35; Vicky Jamieson 38.66
300 M Paul McBurney 34.54
600 M Raymond Adams 1:19.74
Nigel Carlisle 1:20.56
1000 W Niamh Byrne 1:48.64; Freda Davoren 1:48.77
1000 M Conor Sweeney 1:21.78; David Mathews 1:30.2
Best individuals in field events
Long Jump Simon Sawney 6.21; Mary Devlin 5.48
Triple Jump John Ferguson 12.76; Mary McLoone 11.82
Javelin Andrew Gallagher 62.91; Jennifer Sullivan 40.69
Niall Tuckey 59.31; Ben Houghton 59.03
Aoife Byrne of D.S.D. finished 3rd in a Senior International in Namoura, Belgium
last night in 2.18, breaking her U.23 record. David Kelly finished 2nd in the
Men's 800m in 1.50.66.
There were no Irish athletes in action at the IAAF Grand Prix II
Gugl Meeting held in Linz, Austria on 20th August.
BMC Nike Grand Prix
Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow
Saturday, 11th August 2001
Women
800m A
2nd, Maria Lynch, 2.08.65
4th, Ann Marie Hutchinson, 2.10.67
1,500m A
6th, Beirne, 4.28.09
1,500m A
1st, Maria Skelton, DSD, 4.31.95
Men
Mile
2nd Gary Murray, St Malachy's, 4.06.70
8th, Brian Murray, Templemore, 4.13.20
3,000m
10th, Cathal Lombard, Leevale, 8.39.22
Men 800m A
5th, Richard Girvan,Annandale Striders, 1.50.65
8th, Eoin Cummins, UCD 1.54.00
Men 800m C
3rd, Nigel Carlisle, Ballymena & Antrim, 1.53.5
Men 800m C
2nd, G Hill, Ballymena & Antrim, 1.55.36
Catriona Dowling placed 32nd in the Falmouth 7.1 mile road race held in Falmouth,
Massachusetts, USA on 12th August. Dowling was fifth in the Masters 40+ division.
Desmond English placed fourth in the Invitational Mile in 4.05.54 earning US$100 for the effort.
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