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12th
July 2010Carey just Misses
out on Gold at Santry
A top quality National Senior Track/Field
championships at Dublin,s Santry Stadium over the weekend,yielded
eight medals for North West athletes,among them City of Derry,s
Tom Carey who battled to 400m Hurdles silver as just one second
separated the top three finishers in a tense final.
Strabane Track Club,s Aaron Crawford threw
61m 91cm for the Mens Javelin gold,Tir Chonaill,s Mary McLoone
claimed Triple Jump gold and Long Jump silver,Finn Valley,s
new American based recruit Tori Pena,cleared an Irish record
of 4m 15cm for Womens Pole Vault gold and Letterkenny duo
Maria McCambridge and Darren McBrearty took 5000m gold and
800m silver with respective 16m 19.78s and 1m 49.37s clockings.
Tir Choniall ,s Geraldine Stewart completed the medal tally
with the Womens Shot Putt bronze.
Back to Tom Careys brave bid to retain his 400m Hurdles crown
and what an effort the big Spartan put in! The surprise gold
medallist Leevale AC,s Patrick Maher set off at a blisterig
pace but was being hauled back in the latter stages by Carey
and the bronze medallist,Clonliffe,s John Fagan.The teenage
Maher, who is off today to the World Junior championships
in Canada got home in a new PB and Irish Junior record of
51,53s,the Spartan took silver with 52.07s with Fagan a close
up third on 52.60s. Disapointment for Carey who had run a
51.73 s PB a week earlier but it was an enthralling race and
no doubt he will return to the fray soon determined to reclaim
his top spot.
News of the other Derry athletes in action,Gregory Roberts,Aaron
Doherty and Pajo Hamilton. Roberts went in a high quality
5000m,won convincingly in 29m18,88s by Gerry Thornton of Galway
City Harriers with St Malachys Joe McAllister-well known in
these parts- third on 30m 07.69s, The Spartan finished sixth
after a battling run for 30m 49.72 s,perhaps not as good as
he anticipated but he too will be back into training determined
to
continue pressing his ambition to get up there among the big
guns.
Aaron Doherty ran the 5000m on Sunday and in a race won by
the world class Alaister Cragg in 14m 04.64s he finished 17th
with a new track PB of 15m 24.95s.This run reflects his recent
improvement over the distance and suggests he will go even
faster before long-perhaps this weekend at the second round
National League match in Athlone. Pajo Hamilton got a new
1500m PB in Saturdays heats of 4m07.1 s but felt he ran a
poor tactical race and he too will be keen to rectify matters
in the coming weekks.
As expected Jason Smyth was withdrawn from the Sprints at
the weekend and will travel to the Irish holding camp in Spain
in advance of the upcoming European championships,confident
his niggling hamstring injury will have benefitted from the
enforced rest.
Road Races
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Ivan Toner won last Fridys Cranford JG Memorial 4.2 miler
in 22m 11s ahead of Joe McKinney and Michael Black while Helena
Crossan once again was the top female finisher on 25m30s.
The Spar Coleraine 10K is tomorrow night,Wednesday 14th at
7pm and a massive entry is expected there.The Donegal Grand
Prix series moves to Churchill,near Letterkenny,for the Churchill
Fair 5K this Friday at 7 30pm and the final race in the Furey
Insurances Series is set for Wednesday 21st also at 7 30pm.
Sponsored by Donnelly and Taggart the race HQ will be in the
Sports Complex and the usual Baliniska/Branch Rd circuit looks
set to pull a nother big entry for the finale of the popular
Furey Series.
Gerry Lynch 12/7/10
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