Craughwell Athletic Club

In what will hopefully become an annual event, the inaugural Salthill 4 x 1mile relays took place in the grounds of St. Enda's College in Galway where the Craughwell quartet of Pádraic Tobin, Peadar Harvey, Conor Gillen and Finn Stoneman put in a fine performance to win the race in a time of 20.51 – over a minute clear of the 2nd place team. It was an impressive performance with the team’s splits featuring as 2nd (Peadar 4:58), 3rd (Conor…

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The Galway City Sports is on next Tuesday 31st May in Dangan … I had the wrong date recorded for it on our fixture list. So if your school is entered, its on Tuesday – not Wednesday!

The club's progress in schools athletics continues to rise with 33 athletes from the club having qualified for the Connacht Schools Track & Field Championships which were held in Athlone last Thursday. The stand-out performance from a Craughwell AC perspective were Ciara Greene’s breathtaking 5.02.8 time when winning the Minor Girls 1500m. Ciara's time was the 5th fastest of any girls time across the minor, junior, intermediate and senior 1500m races on the day and is a new Connacht record. It is also only a…

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At the Galway Track & Field last Saturday, incessant rain fell all day long which dampened spirits for most of the day. Nevertheless the large number of Craughwell AC athletes in attendance competed with distinction with many fine performances. The high jump and hurdles had to be postponed to this Thursday at 7pm in Dangan but the remaining events went ahead despite the weather. Maria McNamara was in top form when winning the U17 long jump and triple jump, taking…

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Provisional program for tomorrow is as follows. Please note that the times on the left hand side are my guesswork and not official times – so please arrive in plenty of time for your events:   Track Events     11.00 Relays U12/14/16/18 11.30 Relays U13/15/17/19 12.00 Long Hurdles U15-19 12.30 Sprint Heats/finals U12-19 13.30 600m U12-13 13.50 800m U14-19 14.20 Walks U14-19 14.20 Hurdles heats/finals U13-19 15.00 200m U14-19 (on times/no finals) 15.30 1500m U14-19 16.00 300m/400m U17-19  …

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Best of luck to the many athletes from the club who are representing their schools in the Connacht Secondary Schools Track & Field this Thursday in Athlone IT. Each year, more and more members of the club are making it through to the Connacht and National finals in the schools competition. The secondary schools track & field is regarded as the highest level of juvenile athletics in Ireland since it attracts athletes from all sports and not just those who are members of an athletic club….

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