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Month: July 2011

Maeve Curley Takes 10th Place at European Juniors

Maeve Curley Takes 10th Place at European Juniors

Maeve Curley proudly represented Ireland last week at the European Junior Track & Field Championships in Tallinn, Estonia where she raced to a magnificent 10th place in the 10000m race walk amongst Europe’s best.  Maeve’s time of 51.22.82 was just marginally outside her PB in tough weather conditions which saw just 3 of the 24 competitors equal or better their PBs. It was a fantastic performance by the Craughwell athlete and hopefully the first of many major internationals for Maeve….

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U17 Girls Take Double Set of National Relay Medals!

U17 Girls Take Double Set of National Relay Medals!

The final weekend of the National juvenile track and field championships took place in Tullamore last weekend where Ashley McDonnell and Tara McNally both claimed bronze medals. Tara raced to a super podium finish in the U14 girls 200m in an incredible time of 26.70, breaking the old club record of 27.0 set by Ashley McDonnell in 2008. But despite relinquishing this record, it was a marvellous day for Ashley where she equalled her PB of 4.91m to claim the…

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Round 2 of National League

Round 2 of National League

Craughwell AC were represented in large numbers on the County Galway women’s team that contested round 2 of the Premier Division of the National League in Athlone recently – providing half of the 18-strong squad and in the process helping Galway qualify for the National League final in August. Maeve Curley and Cathriona Farrell got the Galway team off to an excellent start with victories in the 1500m race walk in a time of 6.45.42 and in the high jump…

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Tara McNally Excels at National Juvenile Track & Field Finals

Tara McNally Excels at National Juvenile Track & Field Finals

Craughwell AC were well represented in the National juvenile track and field finals in Tullamore. The top performance came from Tara McNally who raced to a superb bronze medal in the U14 80m sprint. Tara’s time of 10.63 was 0.19 away from the winning time. Also in action, Aisling Keady-Cummins was unlucky to take 4th place in the U13 high jump with a leap of 1.35m which equalled the bronze medallist’s jump but lost out on count-back of knocked bars….

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Update on juvenile events and training

Update on juvenile events and training

Just a quick update on juvenile athletics. While the Connacht Tribune has been excellent as usual in publishing weekly reports on the club activities, I’ve been slow to update the website so I hope to correct that this weekend and post a backlog of reports and photos. But here’s a summary of what’s being happening in the last 6 weeks.