Congratulations to Rathfarnham WSAF AC’s Mitchel Byrne on his first place and Leinster Intermediate Gold at the Leinster Intermediate Cross Country Championships hosted by Gowran AC in Gowran, Co Kilkenny on Sunday 13th January 2019. He also picked up the Dublin Intermediate Gold medal. Kevin Donagher was an excellent 12^th overall and just missed out on a medal in the Dublin Championships coming 4^th.

Rathfarnham WSAF AC’s women won the Team Silver medal with Louise Gaffney coming 4^th, Clare Sullivan 9^th, Sinead Murray 14^th, Ber Crowley 22^nd and Laura Ryan 25^th. On top of that Louise Gaffney won the silver medal in the Dublin Intermediates.

In the Masters race Paul Flemming won M40 gold and the team of Paul, Dave Power, Ciaran Aylward and Barry Mulvihil came 6^th. Vanessa Sallier was 4^th W45!

Well done to all who took part. It was another weekend with a good haul of medals!!

It was a mild dry day for the 2019 Dublin Masters Cross Country Championships in St. Anne’s Park on Sunday 6^th January. Some great results across the board delivered a great haul of medals for Rathfarnham WSAF AC.

Shane O’Neill, still powering back to form, finished 2^nd overall and won the individual M45 gold. Paul Flemming finished 10^th overall and won the M40 gold. Edwin Keville came 18^th overall and won the M50 gold. Clare Sullivan was first home for the club in the women’s race, finishing 5th. Donna Mahon came 18^th and won the W45 gold. The W35 team of Clare, Donna, Lorraine Nolan and Vanessa Sallier won the bronze. The M35 team of Shane, David Power, Paul and Ciaran Aylward won the bronze medal. The M50 team of Edwin, Tom Cuddy, Pearse Coyle and Denis Daly won the M50 Gold. Suzanne Ryan, Ester Lawlor, Clare Shield, Noreen Fitzsimons, Lian Brady, Jackie Kingston, Barry Mulvihill, Philip Wright backed up the team performances. A special congratulations to David Power who placed an excellent 8^th overall. He was the only person heard afterwards complaining about how good the conditions were but we all know that he prefers and performs better in deep mud, freezing rain and howling gales of biblical proportions! Well done to everybody who competed. Pictures of all who ran today are in the Gallery. All the results are on the MyRunResults website.

There were some great results to kick off 2019 for the club in the Tom Brennan Memorial 5K in the Phoenix Park on January 1st. Mitchell Byrne came 2nd in 15:00, Paul Stephenson came 6th in 15:34, Paul Fleming came 7th in 15:37, Shane Grehan came 55th in 18:24, Pearse Coyle came 61st (2nd M50) in 18:46 and a racing back to form John Mc Cabe came 80th (7th M50) in 19:45. Rathfarnham WSAF AC won the team with Mitchell, Paul and Paul as scorers.

FULL RESULTS HERE

In tough wet and windy conditions, in which  long spikes where the order of the day on a very soft and muddy underfoot course, the best juveniles in the land converged on Navan to claim honours. Rathfarnham was well represented with 18 athletes and 3 full teams competing.Well done to all who represented the club so well in a very high quality field. 

Under 11 Boys : Aiden O'Connor 32nd ( silver County,  bronze Provincial Dublin team); Ben Mulvihill 5th,  Mark Quinlan 16th,  Sean Regan 17th.  Team 18th .

Under 13 Girls : Zoie Ritchie 5th ( 2nd scorer on silver Dublin team); Rachel Lawlor 10th,  Caolainn Mc Cabe 10th,  Philipa Mc Glynn 14 2nd,  Sofia Corcoran Kelly 157th.  Team 16th.

Under 13 Boys: Ryan O’Neill 49th, Tom Quinlan 55th, Dara Mulvihill 110th, Aaron Murphy 147th, Fionn Kelly 15 3rd.  Team 13th.

Under 15 Girls : Alice Hickey 10th (Silver Dublin County team ), Lucie Ritchie 36th.

Under 17 Boys : Charlie Mc Gowan 3 2nd ( Silver Dublin County, Bronze Provincial).