A week late with this article due to Finland! Craughwell AC's U13 boys 4x100m team raced to a new club record (for U13s) and National title a week ago in Tullamore when winning the U13 boys relay in a time of 54.64 to add to their indoor title from earlier this year. Their time of 54.64 overtook the U13 boys team of 2007 as the club record for this age group – that year the team of Peter Treacy, PJ Kelly, Brendan Gallagher and Jack Raftery won the National title in a time of 55.10.

The U15 girls put in an exceptional performance to break the club senior record in the 4x100m relay in a time of 54.06 in their heat and finished 6th in the final with their team of Jessica Heneghan, Claire Ryder, Orla McDaid and Maria McNamara. The U12 boys raced to a good time of 57.97 to finish 5th in their final – with their team Eddie Madden, Ici Richards, Ian Connolly, Oisin Doyle and Niall Broderick. Oisin Doyle performed heroics to execute a perfect baton pass after losing his footing and diving forwards to make the baton exchange! The U13 girls were unluckly not to make the final, finishing as the 9th fastest team in the heats with their team of Dandy Murray, Ellen Treacy, Ellen  Fitzpatrick and Sinead Treacy; while the U12 girls were very unlucky to drop the baton in their heat and miss out making the final with their team Hannah Rabbitte, Caoimhe Reidy, Grainne McDaid, Tara McNally and Leanne  Freaney.

 

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On Sunday, Maeve Curley raced to a National bronze in the U18 girls walk in a time of 15.54.47, while a strong performance from Christopher O'Connor in his first National final in race walking saw him take 6th place in a time of 12:13 in the U14 boys event. Conor Gillen ran a strong 1500m to take 5th place in a new PB of 4.51.54. Claire Ryder knocked over half a second off her PB when taking 7th place in the U14 girls 200m in a time of 27.82. Ashley McDonnel took 6th place in the U17 girls triple jump with a best jump 9.41m despite suffering an injury on her first jump. Muireann Maloney ran a good 1500m in the U15 girls event to record a time of 5.35.92, as did Matthew Moran in the U14 boys 1500m in a time of 5:45.65; while Paul Fitzpatrick set a new PB in the U15 boys 1500m in a time of 5.01.08. The days events were wrapped up by Paul McGill in the U16 boys discus where he finished in 9th place with a throw of 27.98.