Craughwell Athletic Club

Maeve Curley, bronze medallist in the National Senior 5000m Race Walk in Santry Maeve Curley raced to the bronze medal in the 5000m race walk at the National Senior Track & Field Championships yesterday in Santry. Maeve completed the grueling 12.5 laps of the track in an excellent 26.11.30 despite being penalised with a 30 second time penalty due to an infringement on the final lap. In new rules for race walking, some rule violations that used to result in…

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A nice write-up in today’s Connacht Tribune on the club and it’s qualification for the European U20 Club Track & Field. Get your copy today!! The event takes place in September 2019 so we have a year to prepare our athletes for it. The venue is most likely Leiria in Portugal where it has been held for the last number of years. You can read about this year’s Europeans at www.leiria2018.com and previous championships at www.european-athletics.org. It was a massive…

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The final day of the National Juvenile Track & Field took place yesterday in Tullamore where again athletes from the club performed with distinction. Highlight of the day was the U19 Girls Triple Jump where both Laura Cunningham and Lorraine Delaney both excelled to place 1st and 3rd in the competition with a marvellous string of jumps. For 2 athletes from the club to medal at National level in the same competition is a fantastic achievement. Both girls achieved this…

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The first 2 weekends of the National Juvenile Track & Field Championships took place in Tullamore recently where some outstanding performances saw athletes from the club take home 1 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze in the ‘A’ Championships and 1 silver in the ‘B’ Championships as well as a string of 4th place finishes and top-8 performances.

Craughwell AC’s Katie O’Donoghue, Maeve Curley and Sarah Finnegan (team captain)who were part of the County Galway women’s team who qualified for the finalof the National League’s Premier Division at the weekend in Tullamore Several athletes from the club proudly represented the County at Round 2 of the National League recently which was held in Athlone IT, with the women’s team qualifying the National final of the Premier Division and the men’s team qualifying for the National final of Division…

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Athletics Ireland have this week confirmed that the club’s girls team has been selected to represent Ireland in the 2019 European U20 Track & Field Championships. The club were selected based on the fantastic performances from our U17 to U20 athletes at the recent National Junior Championships in Tullamore. It’s a major achievement for the club to get a squad of athletes to this level and to have the honour of representing Ireland in a major European event. You can check…

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Craughwell AC’s Medallists at the National U20 and U23 Championships in TullamoreCaron Ryan – U20 National 5000m Champion, Chloe Casey – bronze medallist in the U20 Shot Putt,Conor Duggan – bronze medallist in the U23 200m and Sinead Treacy – silver medallist in the U23 200m & 400m Craughwell AC’s U20 and U23 athletes were in flying form at Saturday’s National Championships in Tullamore taking home 5 individual medals, 2 sets of relay medals as well as 3 fourth place…

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County Galway Mens’ 4x400m team who placed 2nd in the National League at the weekendJack Miskella, Luke Evans, Gavin Cooney, Brendan Lynch Craughwell AC athletes performed with distinction a week ago in Templemore while representing County Galway in round 1 of the National Senior League. The women’s team are placed 4th in the Premier Division after the first round while the men’s team are placed 3rd in Division 1 with all to play for in the second round in 2…

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Craughwell AC’s 1500m and 3000m medalists at the Connacht Championships in ClaremorrisWilliam Fitzgerald, Catherine Noonan, Kyle Moorhead, Patrick Noonan, Sean Cotter, Luke Evans Following on from an exciting day at the Connacht Championships in Claremorris on June 9th where the U9s to U13s were in action, the U14s to senior grades continued a fine run of performances from the club at the final day of the championships where were held on June 16th in Claremorris. Read on for full details…

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