Tag: Field Events

Field Events News

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Recently, Cathal OBrien and Samarat Saidi took part in their first Irish National Squad Jumps Training session. It took place in Nenagh with Pat Power the National Jumps Coach doing the days’ training. They are in the squad as they both won medals in the All Ireland: Cathal won bronze in long jump and Samarat won silver in triple jump. They learned a great deal and return to the club with much information for David Courtney, Alex Conway and John Conroy to absorb into the training plan!  We all learn…

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Field Events Training

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Indoor training started last night, Mon 15th Sep, at Gurteen, at St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield GAA hall. We had great fun. We had music and we had some core wrestling games too. And crunch competitions! If you don’t know what that means, come along and get stuck in !   Weekly session It’s the start of a weekly session that will go through the winter and set us up for all field and multi events for the coming season, indoor and outdoor. We had 14 athletes and David Courtney & Alex…

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A Masterful Performance

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The 2014 Irish Masters Track & Field Championships took place yesterday (August 10th) in Tullamore. There was a strong representation of Ennis Track athletes, men and women, many of whom competed in more than one event. [list][item icon=”127942″ ]Mary Cahill (M35) was 8th in the 800m in a time of 2:40.53 and 4th in the long jump with a jump of 3.84m.[/item] [item icon=”127942″ ]Alex Conway (M40) had a busy day, achieving medals in all his three events. He was  2nd in the Shot Putt with a throw of 10.02m, 3rd in…

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Juvenile Athletics – Silver & Bronze

Deirdre Daly

2 Medals at the National Championships.  Following in the footsteps of our senior athletes a number of our talented junior athletes accounted themselves very well at the Juvenile National Track & Field Championships (Saturday, 26/7/14). U12 600m 2nd Albha Doherty in 1.44.28, 5th place Ellie Pike in 1.52.22 U 16 Long jump 3rd Cathal O’Brien with a jump of 5.85m U17 400m 8th Abimbola Sobayo in 65secs U19 Triple Jump 4th Jamil Saidi reaching 12.11m and 8th in 400m in 53.97.

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More Success for Ennis Track at GloHealth Juvenile Championships Day 2

Deirdre Daly

Ennis Track had six athletes competing on day 2 of the GloHealth Juvenile Track & Field Championships in Tullamore. Sean Collins wins the U18 boys 3ooom steeplechase in a time of 9:53.65.  Well done to Sean and his coach Pat Hogan. In the Boys U15 100m Tony Odubote also finished first in a time of  11.54. Unfortunately, Tony missed out on the chance of a second medal when the finals of the 80m hurdles saw four athletes disqualified for false starts.[spacer] Semirat Saidi won silver in the U18 Ladies triple jump with a…

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