At an award ceremony in the River Lee Hotel, Leevale AC Senior Men team were presented with the Cork City Sports Athlete of the month award for August. The event is sponsored by 96&C103FM, The Evening Echo and The River Lee hotel. Leevale men’s team secured victory in the National League Final premier men’s contest. … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month August”
read MoreThe Cork City Sports athlete of the month for July goes to Alex Wright. Alex a race walker with Leevale AC, won the the national senior 10,000m walk title at the Morton Stadium Santry in a time of 42:09.79. Earlier in July he finished 3rd in a high quality field of international walkers at the Cork City … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month July”
read MoreAt an award ceremony in the River Lee Hotel, Bandon athlete Phil Healy was presented with the Cork City Sports Athlete of the Month award for June. On the 14th June at the EAP event in Geneva Phil Healy ran a personal best time of 11.53 in the 100m which was a qualified her for … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month June”
read MoreAt an award ceremony in the River Lee Hotel Leevale athlete Mark Hanrahan was presented with the Cork City Sports Athlete of the month award for April. Hanrahan received the award for his victory in the senior men’s national 10km road championship which was incorporated in the Great Ireland Run in the Phoenix Park on April 6th. … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month April”
read MoreAt a ceremony in the River Lee hotel Caoimhe Harrington was presented with the Cork City Sports Athlete of the month award for March. The award and ceremony was sponsored by The River Lee Hotel and 96FM/C103. Caoimhe was the only Cork winner at the All Ireland schools cross country championships at Cork IT on March … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month March”
read MoreUCC student Claire Fitzgerald won the Cork City Sports athletes of the month award for February on foot of her win at the National Indoor Champs in Athlone in February. Fitzgerald subsequently retained her Irish Universities Indoor title for the shot and also won the Universities Championships in Waterford for both the shot and discus. She … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month February”
read MoreNiamh Murphy of Blarney/Inniscarra AC is the Cork City Sports Athletics Person of the Month in Association with The River Lee Hotel, Cork 96FM C103 and the Evening Echo. Niamh a renewed thrower won the Under 23 National Indoor Shot Putt title in January with an impressive putt of 12.85m.
read More2013 was a great year for athletics in Cork, with Louise Shanahan winning the 800m in the European youth olympics, Orla Barry setting a work record in the discus at the IPC Athletics World Championships, Ciaran O’Lionard’s Bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships and Lizzie Lee & Claire McCarthy’s sub 2:40:00 marathons. However when it … Continue reading “Athletic Person Of the Year 2013”
read MoreSarah Collins (Providence College) with roots in Douglas, Bishopstown and Kinsale wins the December award for the Cork Athletic Person of the Month. On Saturday December 7th running in one of her first indoor races ever Sarah set a new Irish and European Junior Indoor 5000m record with a time of 15:41.00 at the Boston … Continue reading “Athlete of the Month December”
read MoreSam Healy was nominated the Cork City Sports Athletic Person for the month for November. Healy of Leevale AC & Carrigaline Community School received the award for his achievement in winning the Intermediate Boys All Ireland Combined Events title at Athlone IT indoor track on 16th November. Sam amassed an impressive total of 3389 points … Continue reading “Athlete of the Month November”
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