William Fitzgerald did the business in Navan today with an incredible Silver-medal winning individual performance to lead his club to an historic national title. This is the first time in the 117 year history of the event that it has been won by a Galway Club!!! The 6km Novices Cross Country is one of the biggest races on the domestic cross country calendar with a huge entry and is a fantastic proving ground for upcoming senior talent. To put the…
Sunday was a big day on the Athletics Calendar with the All Ireland Even Ages and Senior Cross Country in Kilkenny and the Schools Multi-Events All-Ireland in Athlone. The Course Stole the Shoe as Declan shines! It was all eyes on Gowran, Co.Kilkenny on Sunday for the National Even Ages and Senior Cross Country. After the heavy rain of recent weeks, the signs weren’t good for the footing and it was confirmed when we got there. Luckily the rain stayed…
The picturesque grounds of the historic Maynooth University were once again host to the Irish University Association’s road relay championships. This is a competition in which the best of the domestic talent around the country do battle running laps of a circuit which is a little over 1 mile. The weather was bright and the colours couldn’t have looked more autumnal. For full results, check out here or the fairly ancient looking but absolutely amazing iuaa.org! The men’s race featured…
The day was bright, sunny and cold in Ballymote, Co.Sligo for the final day of the Connacht Championships. Though the weather was mostly dry, the course was damp and cut up fairly well as the day went on for the uneven aged finals. Anthony Boyle was Craughwell’s sole competitor in the Senior race and he performed strongly, coming 11th in the field after a great battle with legendary Mayoman Conor McGloughlin. The race saw a Galway man crowned Connacht Champion…
What a fantastic and special day the club had last Saturday at its second attempt to break the world record for a 12-hour relay. Running a relay continuously for 12 hours is a major undertaking and it was wonderful to see the huge effort from right across the club and the community to pull it off. We didn’t break the record unfortunately but we did break the fund-raising record for a 12-hour relay with close to €20,000 raised from the…
Only hours to go now for our world record relay attempt this Saturday on our very own 400m track !! Support us by joining us on the day – all welcome and all clubs from the local and surrounding areas are invited to come and help us out break the record .. we need all members, full teams from other clubs, full families, young and old, all running, jogging or walking a 100m leg of the relay to help us….
Westport House in Mayo was the venue for the Connacht Even Ages Cross Country. Though the sun blazed down, the course was muddy in spots and incredibly hilly and tough. It consisted of 1 km laps, each containing very steep hills and sharp descents. There were some brilliant performances from the travelling Craughwell AC Athletes as usual. Probably the best result of the day came from our u14 boys team who won Gold in the 3km in impressive fashion…
On Sunday a crew of Craughwell AC Athletes made the trek to Abbotstown in Dublin to compete in the Autumn Open Cross Country Championships. The first event of the day was the inaugural senior Mixed 4x1500m relay which involved two men and two women running an any order the team desired. The first two teams qualified for the European Club Competion in Portugal so the competition was fierce. Since we could run in any order we wanted there wa sa…
On Thursday the Schools Action continued, this time with the Secondary Schools Combined Events finals in Athlone. Siofra Davis and Leonore Church of Presentation College Athenry came 2nd and 3rd in the Senior Girls competition with Siofra winning Long-Jump and Shot Put and Leonore winning the 800m. Claudia Coyle delivered a super performance in the Minor Girls to come 5th with a dominant win in the 800m with Aisling Lavan in 10th. Oisin O’Donovan of St. Brigids Looughrea won a…
(thanks to Laura Murray for sending in this report!) The Connacht Primary Schools Cross Country finals took place in a fairly wet and mucky Tuam Demense last Tuesday and there were some outstanding performances from Craughwell AC Athletes. First up was the 5th/6th Class Boys which was a fast and tough race. Conor Mannion ran superbly for Craughwell NS finishing in 15th position! The next race was 5th/6th class girls which was equally as gruelling and we saw great runs…
