Craughwell Athletic Club

Daniel Callanan-Forde and Jerry KearySilver Medallists in the U17 Long Jump and High Jump Another weekend of high-octane athletics took place in Athlone International Arena at the weekend at the National Juvenile Indoor Championships. Saturday saw some exceptional performances with the highlight being Evan Hallinan’s gold medal in the U12 boys high jump with a clearance of 1.25m having earlier placed 4th in the long jump with a fine 4.20m leap. While Sunday saw 3 more medals added with Jerry…

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Continuing a remarkable few months, Sinead Gaffney (2nd from left above) had another outstanding day when running on the University of Limerick cross country team that won the Colleges title in Sligo recently. It’s been a roller-coaster few months for Sinead winning team silver in the colleges road-relays, individual silver in the 800m at National Indoor U23 Championships, helping UL win the colleges camogie title, breaking the club 800m record by 3 seconds in the National Senior Indoors and now…

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The club had another wonderful trip to Scotland last weekend where U13s, U15s and U20s were taking part following on from the U17s event in Glasgow a few weeks ago. 15 athletes made the journey on this occasion with many fine performances and personal bests. Ava Finn was the star performer where she leaped to a huge 4.36m in the U13 girls long jump to take the bronze medal and indeed only that she had to alternate between high jump…

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Representatives of the Craughwell Women’s Team who received the Galway Athletics Award for Team of the Year 2015Sinead Treacy, Cathriona Farrell, Rachel Finnegan, Sinead Gaffney(Photo credit: John O’Connor) Several Craughwell AC athletes were honoured at the weekend to be recipients of the Galway Athletics Awards for 2015 at a glittering ceremony in the Loughrea Hotel. The Craughwell Women’s Team won the Team of the Year award in recognition of their silver medal in the 2015 National Indoor League. The team…

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