Belfast International Athlete Expression of Interest (including NI Internationals)

02 June 2017

Athletes from Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Republic of Ireland and further afield will be in the running for the Belfast International Athletics Meet at the Mary Peters Track on Wednesday 5th July 2017. 

After the success of the 2016 event, 2017 again aims to collaborate many of Northern Ireland’s top competing athletes, who are considering a standard for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. 

NI athlete Adam McMullen (Cursader’s) joined Pamela Brown, President of Athletics Northern Ireland, and recently selected Commonwealth Youth Games athlete Davicia Patterson of Beechmount Harriers to launch the 2017 event at the Mary Peters Track. Both Adam and Davicia having started well to the 2017 track season, with PB’s for each of the athletes. Adam’s recent success was in Clermont, Florida where he jumped an incredible 7.85m to beat his previous PB of 7.84m. Davicia has been set PB’s all-round which has given her a great start to the 2017 season, but also enabled qualification for the Commonwealth Youth Games 400m event in the Bahamas this August. Davicia has recently set PBs in the 200m (26.43), 300m (39.66) and 400m (55.54).

Pamela Brown, President of Athletics Northern Ireland reiterated John’s point “I am overjoyed that Belfast has a truly world-class facility that serves both current and future generations of athletes. After the success of last year’s event, I am pleased that this event is staging to be a regular fixture on the sporting calendar.”

To see the full Belfast International Athletics Meet news story CLICK HERE

 

We are now accepting expressions of interest from International Athletes or top local athletes in the following events (Minimum Standards)  

Men

Event

Women

11.05

100m

Domestic Only

21.90

200m

24.94

48.90

400m

No Event

03:50.90

1500m

04:25.00

14.59

110m H /100

14.02

53.60

400mH

60.80

7.22

LJ

No Event

No Event

TJ

10.50

60.00

HT

No Event

If you have the relevant standard please email tom@athleticsni.org who will either confirm your place / lane or put you on a reserve list to be confirmed in the middle of June. 

 

Domestic Event Entry

If there are lanes / places free in events on the week beginning 19th June then athletes can express their interest via an online form that will be published on the website. Entry for domestic events can be done in the same way.

A link will be provided to the online form at this time.