Irish Team 2nd in European Combined Events in Portugal

The Team came 2^nd overall with 35821 total points, just behind the winners, Belgium with 38165 points. In 3^rd place was Denmark with 34240 points.

Leading the ladies team was 18 year old, Anna McCauley (City of Lisburn AC) who finished in 7^th place overall with a new PB total of 5114 points. Anna’s 100m Hurdles time was 14.72s (w/s -0.1) and she cleared 1.72m in the High Jump before gaining a new PB in the Shot Put of 11.08m. She then finished the 200m in 25.12s (w/s 0.6) and then jumped 5.5m in the Long Jump. She completed the Javelin with a throw of 25.13m and the 800m in a time of 2:22.11s.

Next for the Irish team was North Down AC’s Sarah Connolly, who finished in 11^th place with a score of 4990 points. Sarah finished the 100m Hurdles in 14.85s (w/s 0.1) and cleared 1.72m in the High Jump. She then threw 10.27m in the Shot Put. She then ran a new PB time of 25.48s (w/s -0.1) in the 200m, before jumping 5.48m in the Long Jump. Sarah then threw 27.25m in the Javelin and finished in 2:26.27s in the 800m.

Next up was Laura Frey (Lagan Valley AC) who finished in 20^th place with 4481 points and a host of PBs. She finished the 100m Hurdles in a PB time of 15.32 (w/s 0.3) before clearing 1.54m, another new PB in the High Jump. She threw 9.71m in the Shot Put, before gaining a new PB in the 200m, where she finished in 25.83s (w/s 0.6). She jumped 4.88m in the Long Jump and threw 21.17m in the Javelin before finishing her successful day with the 800m, in a time of 2:17.72s.

Full results can be found here.

Elsewhere this weekend…

The Irish team were in full force at the European Mountain Running Championships in Zermatt on 7^th July 2019.

Among the team was Newcastle & District AC’s Zak Hanna, who finished in 19^th place in the Senior Men’s race in a time of 57:27s, just over four minutes behind the winner, GB’s Jacob Adkin who finished in 53:21s. This was Zak’s second time finishing in the Top 20 at this event.

In the Junior Men’s event, Ronain Maguire (OMG AC) finished in 24th place in 32:23.10, ahead of St Malachy’s Tony McCambridge finished in 28^th place in a time of 32:39.5, with Jared Martin (Scrabo Striders) finished in 43^rd place in a time of 34:45.40.

In the Junior Women’s event the team came 10^th overall, with Ella Quinn (Omagh Harriers) finishing in 35^th place in a time of 41:14.70, behind IMRA teammate, Aoife Coffey in 22^nd place in a time of 38:45.0. Ella’s club mates, Sorcha Mullan (Omagh Harriers) finished in 41^st place in a time of 42:55.70, while Niamh Heaney (Omagh Harriers) finished in 44^th in a time of 46:55.90.

Full results are available here.

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