Kieran Hurley (Photo: Eoghan Furey)

Kieran Hurley and Cathy McCourt were the winners of the third race of the Furey Insurance Services 5K Series at Culmore.

The race which was sponsored by the Culmore Festival Committee drew an entry of 51 runners despite a clash of dates with other fixtures.

Hurley from the City of Derry club took the initiative from the gun and always looked to be in control of affairs throughout the 3.1 mile event.

At the tape the Corkman had 19 seconds to spare over Declan Reed with a time of 16 minutes four seconds.

Reed had run stride for stride with Foyle Valley clubmate Damian McGinty for most of the race before applying the coup-de-grace on the short homestraight to open up a three second margin.

Another Valley man Sammy McAnaney (17:03) did enough to finish sixth overall to lift the veterans’ prize.

Series leader Cathy McCourt had only returned home from work at 12:30 the previous night but still made the trek from Belfast to maintain her advantage in the women’s competition.

Surprisingly NW cross-country champion Michelle Strum put up little opposition as McCourt watched by her father, Olympic boxing medalist Jim McCourt, strode to a comfortable victory in 18:39.

Omagh Harrier Strum was 14 seconds back with City’s Jackie McMonagle recording another personal best of 19:42 to take the bronze award.

Cathy McCourt (Photo: Eoghan Furey)

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Place	No.	Forename	Surname	Club	Category	Pts (1)	Pts (2)	Pts (3)	Total	Time
1	30	Kieran	Hurley	City of Derry	MO	0	0	51	51	16	4
2	2	Declan	Reed	Foyle Valley	MO	150	1	50	201	16	23
3	32	Damien	McGinty	Foyle Valley	M45	151	0	49	200	16	26
4	41	Colin	Loughrey	Springwell	M35	0	80	48	128	16	55
5	19	Martin	Cox	Omagh Hrs	MO	148	85	47	280	17	0
6	27	Sammy	McAnaney	Foyle Valley	M50	142	77	46	265	17	3
7	20	Kevin	Carlin	City of Derry	JM	144	0	45	189	17	13
8	17	Conor	Moore	Omagh Hrs	JM	141	79	44	264	17	29
9	26	Michael	Connolly	City of Derry	M40	0	0	43	43	17	37
10	28	Michael	Finnegan	City of Derry	JM	0	72	42	114	17	45
11	31	Danny	Ryan	Letterkenny	MO	0	0	41	41	17	47
12	21	Oran	McBride	City of Derry	M40	91	69	40	200	17	50
13	18	Ciaran	Collins	Omagh Hrs	JM	134	0	39	173	17	55
14	3	Philip	Bradley	Foyle Valley	M40	121	73	38	232	17	56
15	10	Karol	Doherty	Inishowen	MO	1	0	37	38	18	5
16	36	Dominic	Hazlett	City of Derry	MO	132	74	36	242	18	8
17	42	Gerry	O'Doherty	Springwell	M50	0	65	35	100	18	27
18	49	Cathy	McCourt	NBH	FO	120	64	34	218	18	39
19	34	Peter	Lilburn	U/A	M50	103	57	33	193	18	50
20	14	Michelle	Strum	Omagh Hrs	JW	0	0	32	32	18	53
21	40	Hugo	Hegarty	Foyle Valley	M40	105	59	31	195	19	2
22	48	Ryan	Snodgrass	Foyle Valley	MO	85	48	30	163	19	13