In the Business Houses Athletics Association Beach 5k in Sandymount on the evening of Tuesday 21st of May Kevin Donagher ploughed through the sand for second place in 17:21. Colm Murray ran 18:30 and Vanessa Sallier ran 21:23. Well done to the bucket and shovel brigade!
The Bob Heffernan 5k road race is one of the older races in Co Meath. It is dedicated to the memory of Bob Heffernan who was one of the founding members of Na Fianna AC. This event is also the third of the 2019 KIA Race Series runs. Some strong running saw Bobby Murphy come 5th in 15:21, Paul Flemming 9th in 15:55 an Paul Moran 52nd in 17:13. This gave the team third prize overall. Paul Moran was an excellent 1st M55 which has a special golden boot award in this race. He’ll explain it!
A large group of 23 Rathfarnham WSAF AC athletes took part in the 2019 Dublin Novice 5k Road Race Championships incorporated into the Tallaght AC 5k. Rathfarnham WSAF AC’s women dominated this year’s Championships. Individually Louise Gaffney won the gold, Sinead Murray the silver and along with Laura Ryan and Jennifer O’Malley the ladies won the team gold.
The men’s team finished 7th. Well done to everybody who ran. There were some great personal performances.
Individual Results were as follows:
Ronan Kearns 16:54
Denis Daly 17:58
Michael Murphy 18:11
Louise Gaffney 18:25
Sinead Murray 18:46
Joe Casey 18:26
Ber Crowley 19:09
Gerard Claffey 19:15
Daniel Keogh 19:25
Sean McCreery 19:26
Sue Ryan 19:49
Laura Ryan 19:53
Eric Cullen 20:11
Vanessa Sallier 20:15
Jenny O’Malley 20:21
Dermot Sheils 20:57
Esther Lawlor 21:22
Ronan Brady 21:24
Clare Sheils 21:46
Lee Byrne 22:07
Aoife Trihy 22:11
Lian Brady 22:53
Maria Brennan 23:17
DUBLIN 5K NOVICE RESULTS CLICK HERE
Rathfarnham WSAF AC's top sprinter, Stephen Gaffney, had a good outing in the league on the weekend of May 18th. He ran 21.62 for the 200m and 10.70 for the 100m. Those very fast early season times will has the AAI sending him to the IFAM meeting in Belgium on the weekend of 25th May. Well done Stephen on another Irish Cap!
In a hard fought running of this epic competition Rathfarnham WSAF AC came an excellent second this year under the great captaincy of living legend David Power. The team was made up of Mark Ryan, David Power, Sean Hehir, Beth Neal, Ciaran Aylward, Colm Moran and Clare Sullivan. David's blog can be found HERE!
