This moment was coming for the past 4 or 5 weeks now and it just took the right race to get it out on the track. Prior to today, the club record in the 800m was held by the incredible Linda Porter who set it as an elite U17 back in 2010 when racing to 2:23.09. Sinead has come close to the record a few times, racing to 2:23.93 as an U18 a few years ago and then athletics taking a…
Cathriona Farrell retained her National Senior High Jump crown in style today with a fine series of jumps in the AIT International Arena. Surprisingly overlooked in the AAI website preview of the event, the stadium record holder and National indoor and outdoor champion cleared 1.75m on her first attempt to claim her 4th National Senior Indoor high jump title in what was one of the most competitive senior high jump event in many years with 4 jumpers clearing 1.70m. Struggling…
Caron Ryan (representing her school St Raphaels Loughrea) raced to a magnificant vicotry in the Connacht Schools Senior Girls 2500m crosscountry yesterday which was held in Calry Sligo – a venue that many of our athletes will be familar with from years of primary schools cross country finals.
Craughwell AC’s U18 Girls 4x200m Team – Connacht Indoor Champions 2016Aisling Keady, Lorraine Delaney, Laura Cunningham, Caoilin Milton The club had another mighty series of performances across the 2 days of the Connacht Indoors at the weekend with a large contingent of athletes in action and some exceptional performances across all of the age groups.
Club Chairperson Marion McEvilly, Ciaran Cannon TD, Club Development Officer Mark Gillen, Minister of Sport Mr Michael Ring TD, Cllr Mogie Maher and Facility Development Officer Michael Tobin at the turning of the sod at Craughwell AC’s new facility The athletic club was honoured recently to be host to Minister for Sport Michael Ring TD and Ciaran Cannon TD when they visited its new 8-acre site in Crinnage to perform the official turning of the first sod on the new…
Huge congratulations to one of the club’s star athletes who has been selected for the AAI National Juvenile Star Awards 2015. Sinead’s extraordinary achuevements in sprints and long jump are well documented on this web site and she is the holder of many club records. Her selection as recepient of the National Award for a Co. Galway athlete is just recognition of an exceptional 2015 where she won multiple National titles in both sprints and long jump. Well done…
At the Universities Indoor Track & Field, Conor Duggan set a new club record and a college record for UCD when racing to a time of 22.59 in the Men’s 200m, just missing out on a place in the final by 0.03s. Sinead Gaffney was also in fine form for her college UL when placing 6th in the final of the Women’s 800m in a time of 2.26.1 having earlier in the day run 2.26.7 in the heats. The club…
On another night of high drama at the AIT International Grand Prix, Canadian pole vaulter Shawn Barber was the star of the show when soaring over 5.77m on his first attempt in the packed Athlone arena – in the process setting a new National Allcomers record, the previous record being 5.40m. The Canadian quickly became an adopted Connacht man as he demonstrated his greatness when hanging back patiently after the event for the scores of kids who wanted autographs and…
Provisional timetable is below. Please note that all times are provisional so please arrive an hour before the time listed in case events move ahead of plan:-connacht_indoor_timetable.pdf
The national indoor track and field league final was held in Athlone IT last Saturday 6 February. The Craughwell AC ladies team were back in the final for the third year in a row. Having finished ahead of the winners from the last two years and scoring 57 points, the team still found themselves six points short of a medal winning position as the Dublin city clubs were to the fore this year. There was a good performance all round…
