At the Cork City Sports Athlete Of the Month Award Ceremony held in The River Lee Hotel, Michelle Finn of Leevale AC received the award for September. At the Berlin ISTAF meeting Michelle set a new Irish 2000m Steeplechase record of 6 min 16.67 secs. A week earlier she produced a new championship best time … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – September”
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Aoife O’Sullivan (Liscarroll AC) is the Cork City Sports athlete for the month of August. At the inaugural Youth Nations Cup in Santry Aoife was just one of only two Irish winners in the field events against very strong English opposition. Her winning height was 1.73m. Earlier in the summer at the European Youth Olympics … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – August”
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Fearghal Curtin (Youghal AC) is the Cork City Sports athlete for the month of June. After a stellar collegiate season with Arizona State University, Fearghal complete his racing programme in the US with a personal best of 3:42.20 at the Portland Games in Oregon on the 9th June. This time equates to a 4 minute … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – June”
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Darragh McElhinney (Bantry AC) is the Cork City Sports athletic person for the month of May. On the 25th May Darragh set a new national 5000m record of 13:54.10 at the Flanders Cup in Belgium. Earlier in the month he also set a new Munster schools senior boys 1500m record of 3:49.42 in very blustery conditions. … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – May”
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The Cork City Sports Athletic Person for the month of April is Louise Shanahan (UCC and Leevale AC). On the 13th April at the Irish Universities Championships in Athlone Louise fought off all opposition to claim her first varsity title in her specialist 800m. Her time was a swift 2:13.76 in the final.
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The athletes community in Cork gathered at the River Lee Hotel today for the annual Cork City Sports Athletics Person Of The Year Award for 2018. Each month the Cork City Sports Commitee acknowledges an athletics performance of distinction with an award. The Cork City Sports award is now in it 10th consecutive year and … Continue reading “Athletic Person Of The Year 2018”
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Alex Wright (Leevale AC) is the Cork City Sports Athlete for the month of January. Alex won two international walk titles during the month. In the middle of the month he won the Andalusia 10k walk championship and followed this up a week later with another victory in the Elan Indoor 5000m walk in Bratislava. … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – January”
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Togher AC novice men’s cross country team are Cork City Sports Athletes of the Month for December 2018. The Togher team won a fiercely contested Athletics Ireland National Novice Cross-Country Inter-Club Title, in Navan, Co Meath, on Saturday 16th December 2018. The team members were Evan Byrne, Ruairi Casey, Gavin Sweeney, Ian Tivy and Craig Harrington. The … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – December”
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Darragh McElhinney, Bantry AC, is Cork City Sports Athlete of the Month award for November 2018. On the 25th November Darragh was a comprehensive winner of the National Junior (Under 20) cross country championship held at the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown. Darragh followed up on this run with a very creditable 16th place at the … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – November”
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Leevale AC’s Lizzie Lee is the Cork City Sports Athlete Of The Month for October. Lizzie was presented the award at the ceremony at a hosted lunch today in The River Lee. At the SSE Airtricity Dublin marathon Lizzie Lee mixed it with the elite internationals, finishing an outright third, her time of 2:35:03 was … Continue reading “Athlete Of The Month – October”
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