{"id":9395,"date":"2017-07-16T18:32:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T17:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2017-07-16T19:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:57:39","slug":"national-juvenile-championships-days-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/national-juvenile-championships-days-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"National Juvenile Championships Days 1\u20133"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ennis Track athletes were in superb form at Days 1\u20133\u00a0of the\u00a0National Juvenile Track &amp; Field Championships in Tullamore, collecting no less than 13\u00a0All-Ireland medals\u00a0including 4 golds, 4\u00a0silvers and 5\u00a0bronze, plus a new Irish record in the high jump.<\/p>\n<h3>Our athletes in action on\u00a0Day 1<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ava Rochford was 4th in the U13 girls 60m hurdles in 10.15s and won bronze\u00a0in the shot putt with a throw of 9.55m.<\/li>\n<li>Neasa N\u00ed Ainif\u00e9in was 5th in the U14 girls&#8217; 800m in a time of 2:24.02.<\/li>\n<li>Ailbhe Doherty rounded off a superb\u00a0season with a silver in the U15 girls&#8217; 800 m in a time of 2:18.96.<\/li>\n<li>Chisom Ugwueru was 4th in the U16 long jump with a jump of 5.01m. She also came 4th in the U16 80-m hurdles in 12.30s. Very unlucky not to come home with a medal!<\/li>\n<li>Shanice Benson was 5th in the U17 discus with a throw of 24.87m.<\/li>\n<li>Fresh from her victory last week at the All-Ireland Junior Track &amp; Field, Jo Keane was a clear winner of the U18\u00a0women&#8217;s 800m taking gold\u00a0in a time of 2:15.96.<\/li>\n<li>Patrick O&#8217;Rourke finished 10th overall in the U19 800m running 2:03.10 in his heat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Our athletes in action on\u00a0Day\u00a02<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ava Rochford won the high jump, her signature event,\u00a0setting\u00a0a new U13 Irish record in the process (<a href=\"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Ava-record.mov\">see video<\/a>). She first equalled the record which had stood for 13 years, before going one better to set the\u00a0new record at 1.55m. Well done Ava \u2013 a\u00a0well deserved win!<\/li>\n<li>Chisom Ugwueru won silver in the U16 triple jump with a jump of 10.07m.<\/li>\n<li>Jo Keane followed up her 800m gold with a silver in the U18 400m in a time of 57.39s.<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Kehinde won bronze in the U17 100m sprint in a time of 11.34s.<\/li>\n<li>Shawn Benson won bronze in the U18 100m in 11.20s.<\/li>\n<li>Tony Odubote won gold in the U18 400m in a time of 49.63s. Fantastic stuff!<\/li>\n<li>Patrick O&#8217;Rourke won silver in the U19 men&#8217;s 3000m in a time of\u00a08:59.91.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Our athletes in action on\u00a0Day 3<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Neasa N\u00ed Ainif\u00e9in ran a superb race finishing 5th in the U14\u00a01500m in a time of\u00a04:57.30.<\/li>\n<li>There\u00a0was disappointment for Colin Ryan who didn&#8217;t find form on the day but was nevertheless a creditable 11th in 4:55.16\u00a0in the U14 1500m.<\/li>\n<li>Ailbhe Doherty made the final with a third place finish in her U15 200m semi,\u00a0however, she opted to bow out of the final due to injury. After such a\u00a0sensational\u00a0season, Ailbhe certainly had nothing to prove!<\/li>\n<li>Mark Hanrahan ran a clever race and always looked good for a medal. He won bronze in his U15 1500m a time of 4:25.37.<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Kehinde won the bronze medal in his U17 200m sprint with a time of 23.14s.<\/li>\n<li>Tony Odubote won silver in the U18 200m sprint in a time of 22.47s.<\/li>\n<li>Shawn Benson just missed out on a medal in the same final\u00a0with a 4th place finish in 22.83s.<\/li>\n<li>In the U19 200m, Stephen Hogan finished 8th in\u00a025.47s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"psgal_wrap\">\n\t\t\t<div id=\"psgal_9395_1\" data-psgal_id=\"9395_1\" data-psgal_container_id=\"container_9395_1\" data-psgal_thumbnail_width=\"150\" data-psgal_use_masonary=\"0\" class=\"psgal-inline psgal gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail use_masonry_ show_captions_\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"msnry_items\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width:150px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-09-PHOTO-00000057.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\" data-size=\"747x1328\" data-caption=\"Jo Keane on the podium after her 800m win\" style=\"height:248.52071005917px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"msnry_thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-09-PHOTO-00000057-169x300.jpg\" itemprop=\"thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"photoswipe-gallery-caption\" style=\"display:none;\">Jo Keane on the podium after her 800m win<\/figcaption>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"msnry_items\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width:150px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-09-PHOTO-00000060.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\" data-size=\"900x1600\" data-caption=\"Jo Keane and Tony Odubote\" style=\"height:248.52071005917px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"msnry_thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-09-PHOTO-00000060-169x300.jpg\" itemprop=\"thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"photoswipe-gallery-caption\" style=\"display:none;\">Jo Keane and Tony Odubote<\/figcaption>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"msnry_items\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width:150px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_3907-e1499632213525-1800x2400.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\" data-size=\"1800x2400\" data-caption=\"Record-breaking Ava Rochford\" style=\"height:186.66666666667px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"msnry_thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_3907-e1499632213525-225x300.jpg\" itemprop=\"thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"photoswipe-gallery-caption\" style=\"display:none;\">Record-breaking Ava Rochford<\/figcaption>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ennis Track athletes were in superb form at Days 1\u20133\u00a0of the\u00a0National Juvenile Track &amp; Field Championships in Tullamore, collecting no less than 13\u00a0All-Ireland medals\u00a0including 4 golds, 4\u00a0silvers and 5\u00a0bronze, plus a new Irish record in the high jump. Our athletes in action on\u00a0Day 1 Ava Rochford was 4th in the U13 girls 60m hurdles in 10.15s and won bronze\u00a0in the shot putt with a throw of 9.55m. Neasa N\u00ed Ainif\u00e9in was 5th in the U14 girls&#8217; 800m in a time of 2:24.02. Ailbhe Doherty rounded off a superb\u00a0season with a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}