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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Juvenile Athletics – Silver & Bronze
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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