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Jason (Centre) On the Way to Victory in 200 Metres (Photo: Eamon Harvey) Jason Smyth retained both his titles at the KitKat Irish Schools Athletics Championships at Tullamore. It was the third year in succession that the Limavady Grammar School student had done the double in the showpiece meeting. Although not looking as sharp as he was at the Ulster Schools’ finals two weeks earlier, Smyth nevertheless won both Senior Boys’ 100 and 200 metres with the minimum of effort. The Limavady Grammar School pupil opened with a 21.96 seconds clocking in the 200 metres in which he hit the homestraight slightly in the lead before pulling away for a comfortable winning margin. Smyth had been expected to Derek O’Connor’s 21.2 seconds Schools record stretching back to 1982 but suffered into the headwind in the second half of the race. Later he added the 100 metres gold but only after two false starts which seemed to have an unsettling effect on the Eglinton 18-year-old. “First of all the lad in lane two false-started,” explained Coach Stephen Maguire. “Then the athlete in lane one got disqualified when he tried to jump the gun but there was a lot of messing around which seemed to un-nerve Jason and he was happy in the end just to do enough to win.” There were quite a number of other local athletes who managed to on the medal podium. Maguire’s other charge Kevin O’Doherty also performed well to take the bronze medal in the Senior Boys’ 400 metres with a personal best clocking of 50.78 seconds. It was only the third serious competition at the distance for the Strabane lad who goes to St. Columb’s College. Martin Penrose went one better in winning the Junior Boys’ 1200 metres Walk to give Holy Cross College in Strabane its first success at this level. Kiera Ferguson from St. Cecilia’s was unlucky to lose out on the gold in the Senior Girls’ Triple Jump by a single centimetre. Laura Laughlin from Banbridge Academy, whom Ferguson had beaten in winning the Ulster title two weeks previous, turned the tables with a 10.67 metres effort to clinch the title. Another silver medal came from Royal and Prior’s Ian Ward who showed a tactical naiveté in the Intermediate Boys’ 1500 metres but willed have been pleased with his time of four minutes 2.07 seconds. Top performance of the meeting came from Kelly Proper , a student at St. Paul’s in Waterford, who set a new national junior record in the Long Jump with a 6.08 metres clearance. Gary Murray also made a good start to the season when he finished second in the Ronnie Delaney Trophy organised by the Irish Milers’ Club in conjunction with the Schools’ meeting. Murray who now lives in Newtowncunningham was timed at three minutes 45.14 seconds, less than a half a second behind winner Mark Christie (3:44.63) with Mark Kenneally third in 3:45.55. Kit Kat All-Ireland Schools’ Track & Field 2006 Junior Girls 100m 1 T Paxton Glenlola CS 12.92 2 H Todd Ballyclare HS 12.93 3 J Healy Col na Toirbirte 13.00 4 E Crotty Notre Dame 13.10 4 C Morrissey St Declan’s K’thomas 13.10 6 N Field Scoil Dara 13.24 7 N Ni Cathain Bower Athlone 13.52 200m 1 K Colwell Glastry Coll 26.20 2 J Healy Col na Toirbhirte 26.29 3 T Paxton Glenlola Coll 26.36 4 K Humphries St Angela’s 26.43 5 S Creanor Loreto St Stephen’s Green 26.67 6 C Mooney St Wolstens CS 26.89 7 A Cunningham Bower Athlone 27.83 8 R Allen Taylor’s Hill 27.99 800m 1 A Brennan Heywood CS 2.17.00 2 S Hooks BRA 2.17.07 3 L Woods Col Muire Ennis 2.18.94 4 R Shaw Galway CC 2.19.71 5 C McMahon BRA 2.22.10 6 S Hennessy Rosbercon 2.30.89 7 D O’Keefe Col Treasa Kanturk 2.37.48 8 A Hurley Bower Athlone 2.39.06 1500m 1 T Jamieson Dom Wicklow 4.51.90 2 C Mageean Assumption B’hinch 4.55.66 3 E Tangney St Brigid’s 4.55.96 4 F McKenna Loreto Dalkey 4.59.04 5 J McBrien Ballyclare HS 5.08.57 6 E Mills Strathearn 5.10.11 7 S Moloney Ursuline Thurles 5.19.30 8 S Nugent Col Muire Ennis 5.23.95 1200m Walk 1 F Dennehy Mercy Waterford 5.51.65 2 M Curley Seamount Kinvara 5.56.77 3 J Prendeville Tarbert CS 6.09.79 4 E Prendeville Pres Dingle 6.19.33 5 C O’Dowd Ballinamore PPS 6.27.08 6 C Harrington SH Westport 6.27.36 75m Hurdles 1 C McManus St Dominic’s Cabra 11.70 2 S Furnan Maryfield 11.99 3 A McNeilly Regent House 12.13 4 O Finn Kinsale CS 12.91 5 12.51 6 T Fogarty Sc Mhuire C-on-Suir 12.68 7 M McKelvey Bloomfield Coll 12.71 8 A Tighe Drumshambo VS 13.00
High Jump 1 M Klangton Loreto Kilkenny 1.63 2 M Harrington Sacred Heart Westport 1.58 3 O Finn Kinsale CS 1.58 4 C Farrell Athenry VS 1.55 5 C Harrington Sacred Heart Westport 1.50 6 A Bartley Sc Mhuire Carrick-on-Suir 1.45 6 A Brennan St Columba’s Stranorlar 1.45 7 A Nevin St Mary’s Nenagh 1.45 Long Jump 1 C Farrell Athenry VS 5.10 2 L McKeown Strathearn 4.94 3 A O’Connor Abbey VS Donegal 4.94 4 L Creaven Pres Athenry 4.92 5 A Bartley Scoil Mhuire Carrick-on-Suir 4.87 6 M Kerr St Louis Rathmines 4.87 Triple Jump 1 C Martin Belfast Royal Academy 9.60 2 G Power Pres Clonmel 9.58 3 L Harvey Abbey VS Donegal 9.41 4 J Russell Holy Faith Clontarf 9.27 5 H Thompson Kilkeel HS 9.22 6 L Creaven Pres Athenry 9.05 7 E Foley Holy Faith Clontarf 8.51 8 A Sheehan Scoil Mhuire Bruff 8.02 Pole Vault 1 R Fennell St Augustines 2.45 2 A Nevin St Mary’s Nenagh 2.30 3 R Kelly Greendale CS 2.10 4 K Salley Rathdown 1.90 5 C Farrelly Rathdown 1.70 Shot Putt 1 C Fitzgerald Pres Tralee 1360 2 L Feely St Columba’s Stranorlar 1000 3 T Bradfield Bandon Gr School 982 4 S Daly St Leo’s Carlow 957 5 G McNally Luran JHS 947 6 T Conlon Pres Kilkenny 939 7 C Kennedy St Declans Kilmacthomas 906 8 B Ebron Clounagh JHS 844 Discus 1 C Fitzgerald Pres Tralee 37.71 2 S Daly St Leo’ Carlow 29.95 3 T Bradfield Bandon Gr School 29.61 4 K Lees Cookstown HS 24.17 5 L Jones Brownlow HS 24.08 6 S McGee Loreto Kilkenny 23.03 7 F O’Donovan Mount Anville 22.54 8 D McDowell Regent House 20.85 Javelin 1 A Sheehan Sc Mhuire Bruff 35.25 2 A Long Regent House 33.76 3 Z Scanlon Ard na Deise 32.69 4 S McCrudden Stranrolar VS 29.17 5 R Bolger Dominican Wicklow 28.95 6 G O’Sullivan Sacred Heart Drogheda 26.78 Hammer 1 A G McNally Lurgan Junior HS 35.10 2 K Flynn Pres Miltown 32.88 3 M Fitzgerald St Augustines 29.84 4 R O’Farrell Rosbercon 29.37 5 R Keys Regent Hse Newtownards 28.29 6 LI Feely St Columbas Stranorlar 25.62 4x100m Relay 1 Belfast Royal Academy 51.48 2 Strathearn 52.18 3 Rosbercon 52.21 4 St Aloysius Carrigtwohill 52.93 5 St Declan’s Kilmacthomas 53.74 6 Alexandra 54.05 7 Bower Athlone 54.19 8 Presentation Athenry 54.24
Intermediate Girls 100m 1 N Whelan Pres Waterford 12.25 2 C O’Shea Sc Mhuire Kanturk 12.52 3 S Lawlor St Mary’s Naas 12.58 4 S Kilduff St Louis K’mage 12.65 5 K Malomo-Paris Glenola 12.68 6 F Reville Pres Wexford 12.42 7 E Lewis Hunterhouse 13.10 8 A Esselemont Carraroe CS 13.11 200m 1 N Whelan Pres Waterford 25.13 2 R Angline Portmarnick CS 25.88 3 H Lewis Bloomfield coll 25.90 4 C O’Shea Sc Mhuire Kanturk 26.33 5 S Kilduff St Louis K’magh 26.50 6 F Reville Pres Waterford 26.68 7 C McDonagh St Doninic’s 26.85 8 T Donnellan Pres Headford 27.10 300m 1 H Cross Bandon GS 39.86 2 S Kelly St Leo’s 41.38 3 K Shaw Movilla HS 42.18 4 T Donnellan Pres Headford 42.32 5 S Denny Our Lady’s Grove 43.02 6 S Connolly Cal Oranmore 43.55 7 S Heaney Luman Christi 44.56 8 K Sheahan Ursuline Waterford 46.92 800m 1 M O’Connor Ursuline Waterford 2.15.73 2 C Everard Pres Kilkenny 2.17.22 3 R Gibson Wallace HS 2.17.29 4 B Walsh Ursuline Waterford 2.19.86 5 S Huet Loreto Foxrock 2.19.96 6 C McCourt Malone Coll 2.21.82 7 A Kirk Col Iognaid 2.28.38
1500m 1 C Cronin Abbey CC Waterford 4.35.37 2 S Huet Loreto Foxrock 4.43.41 3 K Walsh Ursuline Waterford 4.48.91 4 C Nolan St Leo’s 4.49.08 5 J Hanley Ursuline Thurles 4.58.43 6 T Gebrezgi St Dominics 4.58.81 7 E McShane |
