At an award ceremony in the Rive Lee, the Leevale AC Women’s road relay team were awarded the Cork City Sports Athlete Of the Month Award for April. The Leevale team composed of sisters Michelle & Carol Finn and Lizzie Lee, recorded their 3rd victory in a row at the National Road Relay in Dublin … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – April”
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At an award ceremony in the River Lee, Mark Hanrahan (Leevale AC) was awarded the Cork City Sports athlete of the month award. Hanrahan won the prestigious Ballycotton 10 mile road race in a very creditable time of 49min 01sec. He has subsequently been selected on the Irish Half-Marathon team for the European Championships in Amsterdam. … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month, March”
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Phil Healy (Bandon AC and UCC) is the Cork City Sports Athlete for the Month of February. Phil’s achievements for that month were outstanding, she had a busy month of indoor racing at the ultra modern Athlone IT Indoor track culminated in a double gold medal performance at the national senior championships in the 60m (7.47sec) and … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – February”
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At the annual awards ceremony in The River Lee, Leevale AC athlete Lizzie Lee was awarded the Cork City Sports athlete of the year 2015. Lizzie was delighted to receive the award and now looks forward to representing Ireland in the World Half Marathon Championship in Cardiff next weekend and in the Marathon at the Rio … Continue reading “Lizzie Lee Awarded The CCS Athlete Of The Year For 2015”
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At an award ceremony in the River Lee, Claire Gibbons-McCarthy (Leevale AC) was presented with the Cork City Sports Cork Athlete for the month of January. Claire won the Waterford Half Marathon in a personal best time of 1:16:45 on the 9th January. She subsequently went on to improve on this in the Barcelona International Half Marathon … Continue reading “Athlete Or The Month, January”
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At an award ceremony in the River Lee Hotel, Michael Harty (East Cork AC) and Aoife Cooke (Youghal AC) were presented with the Cork City Sports Athletes for the month awards of November and December respectively. In November Michael had a very busy but productive few weeks winning the Munster Senior Cross Country title in Kerry … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month Nov & Dec”
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At an award ceremony in the River Lee Hotel, Noelle Lenihan (North Cork AC) from Charleville, received the Cork City Sports Athlete of the month award for October. Noelle competed in discus the Work Paralympic Games in Doha and threw a F38 world record 31.64m and a silver medal in the F37 category. Noelle is a … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – October”
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The 2015 GloHealth National Athletics Awards were held at the Plaza Hotel in Santry today. Among the award recipient was Cork City Sports Meet Director Dick Hodgins who received the Lifetime service to Athletics Award. Milers of the calibre of John Walker, Steve Scott, Eamonn Coughlan and local hero Marcus O’Sullivan and Sonia O’Sullivan have graced the track at … Continue reading “Life Time Achievement Award For Dick Hodgins”
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Brother Colm O’Connell, Coach to Olympic and World 800m Champion David Radish is the Cork City Sports Athletics Person’s of the Month for September. Brother Colm O’Connell is an Irish missionary in Kenya, originally from Caherduggan, Mallow, County Cork. Shortly after moving to Iten Kenya, despite having no coaching background, he began helping aspiring young athletes and he took … Continue reading “Athletic Persons Of The Month – September”
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Leevale athlete Michelle Finn receives the Cork City Sports athlete of the month award for July. Competing at the Letterkenny AC International Track & Field meet in July, Michelle ran the 3K steeplechase in a time of 9:43.03 which gave her well qualification standard for the World Championships in Beijing (9:44) and 2016 Olympic Games … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month July”
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