On Wednesday, August 14, 2024, the Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr. Honore Kamegni, hosted a special civic reception to honor the 70th anniversary of Cork City Sports. This event, held just days after the Paris Olympic Games, celebrated a milestone for one of Ireland’s most prestigious sporting events. Cork City Sports has long been … Continue reading “Celebrating 70 Years of Cork City Sports: A Civic Reception Honoring a Proud Tradition”
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Fifteen Primary Schools entered 18 boys and 15 girls to contest the Karze-sponsored Primary Schools mile at the 70th Cork City Sports on the newly laid all-weather track in the Munster Technological University Stadium, on Tuesday night 9th July 2024 The winners of the two one-mile events recorded exceptional performances. In the girl’s race … Continue reading “Primary Schools Mile A Huge Hit At Cork City Sports”
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The 70th Cork City Sports held at MTU stadium in Bishopstown provided an extremely high standard of track and field athletics on Tuesday night with two Meeting and Stadium records and one national record. The crowd was highly involved and entertained and showed their appreciation to all the athletes including the six Irish athletes present that have been … Continue reading “70th Cork City Sports A Rousing Success.”
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Sophie O Sullivan who is Olympics bound will run the 3000M at the Cork City Sports. Sophie will contest the 1500m at the Paris Olympics but as there is no 1500m at the Cork City Sports she has opted for the 3000m instead. Her main opposition will be Verity Ockenden GBR who finished a close second at … Continue reading “Sophie O’Sullivan and Darragh McElhinney set for 3000m Races at Cork City Sports”
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The women’s Hammer at the 70th Cork City Sports has received a further boost today with the confirmation of World Ranked number two Janee Kassanavoid, USA. She is a two time World Championships medalist and has a seasons best throw of 74.99m. This makes the Women’s Hammer competition at the 70th Cork City Sports … Continue reading “The Women’s Hammer Will Be A World Class Event”
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There will be a significant local interest among athletics enthusiasts in the women’s hammer with local athlete and European championship finalist in Rome, Nicola Tuthill from Bandon, in the field. Nicola has thrown 70.32 already this year The standard of this event has been hugely enhanced with the participation of the World Champion from 2022 and … Continue reading “Women’s Hammer Is Set To Be World Class.”
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The womens 800m at the 70th Cork City Sports should be a very interesting tactical race with eight athletes who have a season best between 1.59.. and 2.01.00. The local favourite, and former Irish record holder, Louise Shanahan, had a slow start to the season but has recently started to show some form, running 2.01.98 in Finland, … Continue reading “Women’s 800m, A Race To Watch”
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Sarah Lavin has been lighting up the tracks of Europe over the past couple of years. The Irish record holder has been running consistently sub 13 seconds which is the threshold for world class in this event. Most recently she ran 12.66 at the Pavlo Nurmi Games in Finland in a stacked field. Sarah … Continue reading “Sarah Lavin Confirmed For 70th Cork City Sports in the 100M Hurdles”
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Torrie Lewis is a teenage star of world sprinting. Still only 19 years of age she is the current Australian and Oceania Champion over 200M. She also won the opening Diamond League 200m title in Xiamen, China, in April, beating World Champion Sha’Carri Richardson into second place. Lewis will be up against another teenage … Continue reading “Diamond League winner Torrie Lewis Confirmed For 200m”
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