The Meath Track & Field Championships was held last
weekend at Claremont Stadium Navan. We had 60 athletes entered for these championships
from u9s to Masters and it was great to see most of our athletes turning up to
compete despite the broken weather. Our u9s competing in their first major
championship led the way, Cara O’ Sullivan winning 3 medals, silver in the
Turbo Jav, and bronze in the 60m and long jump. Erin O’ Reilly was 3rd
in the Turbo and Ciara Coroner ran a great race to finish 3rd in the
u9 500m in a close finish.
Our u10s were in great form also, Laura Kelly also winning 3
medals, silver in the long jump and bronze in the 500m and turbo Jav, Sophie
Quinn had a good win in the 500m and finished 3rd in the 60m. Harry
O’ Connor and Jack Dias also medalled, Harry finishing 3rd in the
500m and Jack 2nd in the Turbo Jav. Good performances also put in by
Lily Nannery.
Fionn Drummond and Kyle Witter had a great run in the boys
u11 600m finishing 2nd and third in a time of 2:01.3 and 2:01.8s,
Kyle was also 3rd in the 60m and Fionn finished 1st in
the Turbo Jav. Aimee Doherty had a comfortable win in the girls u11 600m in a
time of 157.3, Molly Keane, Rachel Conway. Grace Conway, Aoife Casey and Laura
Smith also competed well for the u11s over the 2 days.
Lili O’ Connor came away with 4
gold, winning the girls u12 60m, 60m hurdles, Long jump and High jump with a
great all round display. Ella Healy finished 3rd in the 60m, with
Laoise Murphy also competing well in the long jump and 60m. Tom Kilgannon had
another battle on his hands with his Dunboyne rivals in the 600m, Tom ran a
tactical race and was an impressive winner in a great time of 1:48.5s.
Emma Coroner who is becoming a
multi-event specialist had a productive weekend winning 3 gold in the
girls u13 60m, 60m hurdles and Long jump, Rachel McPartlin finished 3rd
in the high jump and Matthew Buckley was a very comfortable winner of the U13
60m and 60m hurdles. Kate Smith put a great run in the 60m, winning her heat
and finishing 5th in the final.
Our u14s had a great weekend, Daragh Casey had one of the
performances of the weekend finishing 2nd in the boys u14 200m,
Daragh also finished 2nd in the high jump and 5th in the
1500m. Aine Cooney had a terrific run in the girls 200m, finishing 2nd
in a time of 28.69s, which is only 3 tents of a second outside our senior
women’s club record, Aine also finished 3rd in the 75m hurdles.
Maria Rodgers who only started hurdles a couple of weeks ago gave a great
display of hurdling in the girls u14 75m event taking the gold in her first championship
event. Harry Haskins and Fergal Kilgannon put in a good display in the 1500m
finishing 3rd and 4th again this was Harry's first track
championship. Karen Hayes put in a great run in the girls 1500m finishing 1st
on Saturday and came back to finish 2nd in the 800m on Sunday.
Aine O’ Connor put in another good run to finish 3rd
in the girls u16 1500m, Brian Kiernan had a very busy weekend competing in the
100m,200m, 800m, 100m Hurdles, Javelin, Long Jump and High Jump, Brian came away
with medals in all 7 events and also won the u16 multi event title. Peter
Kilgannon ran his first 400m of the season and finished 3rd in the
boys u18 race, Philip Marron had a comfortable win in the 1500m, and Deirdre
Healy finished 2nd in the girls u18 800m. Hugh Kelly was in good form
also winning medals in all 6 of his events securing the senior men’s multi
event title, his throw of 32m in the javelin was only 1 m off the club senior
record.
Well done and thanks to all athletes who competed at the
weekend.
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