Craughwell Athletic Club

Shauna Bocquet had an incredible weekend at the England Age Group Championships held in Bedford on Sunday. These championships are widely considered to be the pinnacle of athletics competitions in these islands across all disciplines and abilities. Shauna put in a magnificent series of performances to come away with the Championship titles in three of the four events in which she took part – winning the 100m in a time of 19.40, the 400m in 1:06.64 and the 1500m in…

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We want to become your (and your neighbors) sole destination for recycling old clothes and shoes.  It has the potential to generate significant revenue for the club to help pay back loans used to develop the club’s facilities. With over 300 families in the club:- 300 families giving 4 bags of old clothes each per year = 1200 bags 1200 bags = approx. €6000! 300 families asking their neighbors to do same or offering to bring the bags up on…

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Craughwell’s Ryan Gallagher and Ava Finn who competed in the U16 Boys High Jump and U14 Girls Long Jump at the National Community Games finals The track and field season wrapped up last weekend with the National finals of both the Community Games and the National Track & Field League. In the League in Tullamore, the club had a number of athletes representing County Galway where the county team put in a strong performance to place 6th overall and retain…

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Shauna Bocquet pictured with Kare Adenegan at the Coventry Godiva ClassicKate won silver in the 100m and bronze in the 800m at the World Paralympics Championships in London this year Shauna Bocquet competed recently in Coventry at the Godiva Classic with some excellent performances and 4 Personal Bests out of 5 events. Shauna raced 100m, 400m and 1500m on the Saturday and 100m, 200m and 800m on the Sunday. Saturday started off with the 100m where Shauna raced to a…

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U18 4x400m Record Setters With just 1 or 2 events remaining in the outdoor track & field season, it has been another remarkable season for athletes from the club with countless PB performances and several club records broken – with 8 senior records broken and 9 junior records broken. The updated list of club records is here Outdoor Track and Field. The following is a brief recapture of the fantastic record breaking performances. I have also compiled a list of the outdoor…

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Chloe, Jerry and Laura representing Ireland at the Celtic Games Today was a pretty historic day for the club with 3 athletes competing for Ireland in the Celtic Games, the first time the club has had 3 athletes on the same international team. Our athletes combined with other Galway athletes for an even more unique achievement with 8 Galway athletes all on the same team – our own Chloe Casey (discus), Jerry Keary (high jump) and Laura Cunningham (triple jump),…

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A big thank you to Dermot Fahy for an aerial fly-over of our fine facility during the week … I will get a video of it up on our website over the weekend. But below is a view from the skies as the helicopter zoomed over our facility. It gives a really good overview of the work to date. Thank you also to all who responded to our recent survey on facility priorities. 117 people replied to the survey which…

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