Rathfarnham WSAF Athletic Club | Rathfarnham Village

National Half Marathon /Rock n Roll Sunday 13th August 2017 Dublin

There were some excellent results at the National Half marathon championships incorporated into the Rock n Roll Dublin Half Marathon. On the hilly course up the Liffey and around the Phoenix Park Rathfarnham Athletes finished as follows:

David Scanlon 1:13:52, Excellent 21^st overall in his first half marathon which becomes his PB!

Paul Moran 1:15:59.54 1^st M50

Edwin Keville 1:19:02.60 3^rd M50

Tom Cuddy 1:25:56.98 4^th M55

Brendan Hogan 1:26:58.46 5^th M55

Terry Clark 1:30:37.97 4^th M60

Vanessa Sallier 1:37:04.87 5^th W45

Seamus Gorman 1:37:53.73 51^st M40

Zoe Melling 1:46:30.77 16^th W45

Jackie Kingston 1:47:20.96 6^th W50

Well done to everybody who raced but special congratulations to the M50 team of Paul Moran, Edwin Keville, Tom Cuddy who won the team gold medal.

I.A.A.F. World Athletics Championships Marathon 6th August 2017, London

Well done to Seán Hehir competing at the highest level at the IAAF World Athletics Championships marathon in London on August 6th. A large supporters group from the club made the trip over and had a great weekend seeing Seán coming an excellent 63^rd. This was despite being hit with stomach cramps preventing him from taking on fluids and fuel and which were visibly affecting him from early in the race. He braved it through but we all know there’s a massive time in there! Onward and upwards!

Dublin Athletics Board Graded Track and Field Meeting no.8, 2nd August 2017

In the 8^th and final Dublin Graded Track and Field meeting of the season just a few Rathfarnham WSAF AC took part and the results were as follows:

100m A Stephen Gaffney 1^st 11.38s

400m A Stephen Gaffney 1^st 50.99s

B Alex Hill 2^nd 53.37

C Pearse Coyle 6^th 62s

3000m B&C Jonny Hughes 2^nd 9:31.59, Aaron Brown 8^th 10:21.24

1mile B&C Pearse Coyle 9^th 5:26.68

Well done to everybody and congratulations to the organisers on probably the most precise and efficiently run track race series of the summer season.

National Track and Field Championships 22nd July 2017 Morton Stadium Santry

Team Gold for Rathfarnham WSAF AC in the 10000m at the National Track and Field Championships 2017 at Morton Stadium Santry on 22^nd July 2017. Congratulations to Louis McCarthy 31:11 (who led the team home in a new PB!), David Scanlon 33:29, Brian Furey 34:08.

5000m saw Jonathan Hughes run 16:25 in his heat. Well done to all.

Report from Irish Life Health National Juvenile Championships, Day 3, Sunday 16th July 2017, Tullamore.

Day three brought the curtain down on the Juvenile Track Championships for another year. Hugh Prendergast was first into action in U/18 Boys 200m. Running in lane 8, Hugh was 4th (23:84) just missing out in a place in the final. Isabelle Doyle was Rathfarnhams hope in U/16 Girls 200m. Isabelle qualified for final finishing 4th (27:29) from heat 1. In the final, Isabelle started in lane 2, finishing 5th (26:85). Our last competitor was Alannah Fasenfeld in Girls U/15 250mH, Alannah finished 6th in heat (40:75). Well done to all our Athletes. Full results on Athletics Ireland website.