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Best of luck to juveniles in National Indoor Finals
We have a sizeable contingent of athletes travelling to Nenagh for the juvenile indoor championships on 25/26 March and 1/2 April..
Please contact Michael Tobin if transport needed on any of the dates. There likely will be a bus travelling on the day of the relays on 2 April - but cars will be the mode of transport for other days.
The following are the athletes who have qualified for the finals and the times of their events. Relay teams are still been finalised but most athletes already know if they are on a relay team or not.
Best of luck to all our athletes - we have some fantastic talent in the club. Enjoy your participation in the National Finals. Remember you can only control how well you perform yourself - not how well everyone around you performs, so try to set a Personal Best in your event and treat a medal as a nice bonus!
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Fantastic Weekend For Craughwell AC
There were some outstanding performances from Craughwell AC athletes at the weekend taking home 2 gold and 4 silver from the National Juvenile Indoor Track and Field in Nenagh and taking 3rd place in the prestigious Connemara Half-Marathon on Sunday.
Mark Davis, Tony Nevin and Tony Fitzpatrick were the club's representatives in the half-marathon and Mark ran a stormer to take 3rd place in a time of 1:22 in very difficult weather conditions.
In Nenagh, Saturday's competition saw Paul McGill throw a National Record of 11 metres to become the U13 Boys Shot Putt Chanpion. Well done Paul, a fantastic performance. Cathriona Farrell put in a great performance despite suffering from the flu, to take the silver medal in the U15 Girls High Jump with a jump of 1.59m. Cathriona had to rely on plenty of mental toughness to make the return journey on Sunday to take silver medal in the long jump with a distance of 5.05m. Sunday was a great day for our U12 high jumpers with Jack Raftery claiming gold in the boys event with a jump of 1.30m and Siobhan Gardiner taking silver in the girls event with a jump of 1.27m. The day was completed with a silver medal by Sarah Finnegan in the 60m hurdles in a time of 11.16.
There were many other fine performances with 3 sprinters making the sprint finals, 3 hurdlers making the hurdles finals, 2 more high jumpers making the top five. It was the club's most successful weekend ever at National level.
Well done everyone! A more detailed report will follow later in the week.
Craughwell Athletes Exude Class at National Indoors
The National Juvenile Indoor Track & Field 2006 may well prove to be a watershed in the club's history. Never before had the club so many athletes taking part in the National Indoor finals and never before did we enjoy such success. This success is not just about medals won, but also the many fine performances by several of our athletes in making finals or finishing in top 5 or 6 in their event.
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Launch of Craughwell AC's 2005 Yearbook!
Community Games Cross-Country, Renmore
The starting time for this event is 3pm on Sunday 9th April in Renmore. Please aim to arrive there at 2pm. Also, please pay particular attention to the notes below.
Senior Training Moved to Renville
Time trial in Craughwell next Sunday
Further to recent email on this subject, we're holding a very informal time-trial on next Sunday 12th Feb starting at 9am sharp. Its informal in the sense that there are no race numbers, no entry fee, no prizes, no goody bags, no food, no changing rooms, no .... the list goes on! So what do you get?Results of Time-Trial
All-Ireland Indoor Results
There was a pretty strong performance from the galway atheletes at the Irish Indoor championships in belfast last weekend.
In particular Craughwell's own William Finnegan posted a fine distance in the senior mens long jump, coming 8th overall.
The other outstanding craughwell result was the great performance of Ann Loughnane in the 3k walk, easily outpacing the rest of the field in a highly creditable 13:18:71.
Sudden Adult Death Syndrome run on Saturday
FolksAnn Loughnane Sets New U23 Walking Record
Congratulations to Ann Loughnane who set yet another National Record when winning the 20KM Walk at the International Grand Prix of Race Walking in the Isle of Man at the weekend. Ann's winning time of 1.37.45 was a new National U23 Record.
Well done also to a number of athletes from other Galway clubs who also recorded top-class performances at the weekend.
Up and coming distance running star from Loughrea, Jason Broderick, raced to 10th position in the National Junior Men's 8k Cross-Country in Santry Dublin. This puts Jason amonst elite company and on the fringes of representing Ireland at international cross-country events.
Top performances were also achieved by Paul McNamara from Athenry AC who finished 4th in the National Senior Men's 12k Cross-Country (also in Santry), Gary Thornton (GCH) who finished 11th and Michael O'Connor (GCH) who finished 22nd.
27 Feb 2006
Craughwell Welcome for Dunleer Athletes
Craughwell was on the route at the weekend for a group of runners from Dunleer AC who were running 7 back-to-back marathons (yes, that's seven - one per day for seven days!) from Galway to Dublin and onto Dunleer in Co. Louth. The group are raising funds for SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome), a rare condition that can strike down healthy sports people in their prime and is believed to be related to a rare genetic cardiac defect.
The group were welcomed into Craughwell by Michael Tobin who ran with them from Oranmore to Craughwell. They arrived at Craughwell around 11.30am where by the kind permission of Tom Callanan and St Michael's Hall Committee, they had access to shower facilities in St Michael's Hall. They then had lunch in Raftery's courtesy of Craughwell AC Senior Club and relaxed for a while before setting off on the road for Loughrea at 3pm.
They were sent on their way from Craughwell by a group of 20 juvenile athletes who ran with them from the hall as far as the Dunard Estate. In fact, the leading bunch of Sinead Gaffney, Brendan Gallagher, Peter Treacy and Padraic Tobin were happily on their way to Loughrea only to be called back as they passed the speed limit signs outside Craughwell. They showed scant regard for the village speed limit also, leaving the marathon runners several hundred metres in their wake!
If you are interested in more information on the Dunleer run or in contributing to its fund-raising, details are available at
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27 February 2006.