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20 January 2020
Yesterday, Clonliffe Harriers’ Stephen Scullion qualified for this summer’s Olympics in Tokyo by finishing 5th in the Houston Marathon, in a new personal best time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 52 seconds.
16 January 2020
Athletics Northern Ireland are seeking to appoint a new Admin & Events Intern to work as part of a team to provide a service in the Events, Marketing & General Administration area of the business.
14 January 2020
North Belfast Harriers’ Mark McKinstry was crowned the winner of the Men’s event at Sunday’s Mathieson Cup Cross Country, organised by Mallusk Harriers, while Karen Wilton (Jog Lisburn Running Club) secured 1st place in the Ladies event.
13 January 2020
The 32 strong team from Northern Ireland & Ulster had a very successful day at the Stirling International Cross Country on Saturday 11th January, which included the British Cross Challenge, Celtic Games and the Home Countries International, by claiming a total of 4 Bronze team medals and 1 individual Silver medal.
10 January 2020
A team of 32 athletes will represent Northern Ireland and Ulster at this weekend’s Stirling Celtic & Home International Cross Country on Saturday 11th January.
20 December 2019
On Sunday 1st of December 2019, Athletics Northern Ireland presented their annual coaching awards in conjunction with the Coaching Conference at Ulster University, Jordanstown, which was headlined by Peter Stanley and Steve Ingham.
19 December 2019
The new Marathon Potential 2024 programme officially started on Saturday 14th December 2019, bringing together the athletes, coaches and support team who will be working together across the next four years.
17 December 2019
The cold, windy and sometimes wet conditions at Saturday's North West Cross Country in Gransha saw Springwell Running Club's Neil Johnston and North Down AC's Rachel Gibson deliver emphatic individual wins in the featured Open 6K race as promoting club City of Derry Spartans were equally emphatic male and female team race winners bagging the Bobby Farren Senior and Brendan Duddy Senior Perpetual Cups respectively.
13 December 2019
Event organisers of the Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon are delighted to welcome on board 15 ambassadors to the new “Experiment 26.2” Group. Experiment 26.2 are all training for their first ever marathon in Belfast on Sunday 3rd May 2020.
13 December 2019
It’s all systems go for this Saturday's North West Cross Country meeting in the Gransha Park grounds with several hundred runners from Primary school age to 70+ set to defy the wintery weather in the four race programme at the popular City of Derry Spartans annual event.