by ieadmin | Mar 31, 2014 | NewsFeed
European Athletics is pleased to announce that former world javelin champion Tero Pitkämäki of Finland and two-time SPAR European cross country champion Fionnuala Britton of Ireland have been as the European Athletes of the Month for March. Pitkämäki, the 2007 world...
by ieadmin | Mar 17, 2014 | Events, Featured, News
Donore Harriers athlete John Travers has won the 2014 St. Patrick’s 5K Festival Road Race, which took place in Dublin today. He completed the course in a time of 00:14:07. Second place went to Colm Rooney from Clonliffe Harriers AC who finished in 00:14:23. He was...
by ieadmin | Feb 26, 2014 | Featured, News, Pre-event
The current World Cross Country Champion, Japhet Korir from Kenya has confirmed his entry and will start as a favourite in this year’s SPAR Great Ireland Run in the Phoenix Park, Dublin on Sunday 6th April. Just 20 years old, Korir is one of the rising stars of world...
by ieadmin | Feb 13, 2014 | Featured, News, Pre-event
Ireland’s leading distance runner, Fionnuala Britton, has confirmed her participation in this year’s SPAR Great Ireland Run 10k which will take place on the roads of the Phoenix Park, Dublin on Sunday 6 April. Britton’s last run in the event was in 2011 when she was...
by ieadmin | Aug 14, 2013 | Featured, Moscow2013, News, Walk, World Champs
Rob Heffernan wins the 50km walk in Moscow to give Ireland their first Gold in the World Athletics Championships since 1995. The 35-year-old beat Russia’s Mikhail Ryzhov, 32, to claim his country’s third-ever world gold and first since Sonia...