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Author: Denis Daly, Created: 28-06-2021 22:47
The highlight of the AAI National Track and Field Championships for Rathfarnham WSAF AC was Stephen Gaffney winning the SiIver Medal in the 100m in 10.50 (+1.7m/s) It ended up as a two horse race with Israel OLATUNDE catching Stephen on the line to win by one hundredth of a second, denying Stephen a second title in a row! Carla Sweeney had a great...
Author: Denis Daly, Created: 28-06-2021 22:13
It was great to see a road race running, even with only 200 participants. Well done to ST. Cocas in Kilcock for organising their 5k road race on Friday 25th June. We had three speedy Rathfarnham WSAF athletes on form. Results were: Mark Ryan 15:12 Paul Fleming 15:49 David Reidy 17:34 (Massive 70second PB!) Congratulations to the three! FULL RE...
Author: Denis Daly, Created: 28-06-2021 22:06
The second Dublin Athletics Graded Meeting took place in Tallaght Stadium on Wednesday 23rd June 2021. Just three Rathfarnham WSAF AC athletes competed. Louise Gaffney 800m 2:18.17 Zoe Richie 800m 2:18.65 (PB) John McCabe 800m 2:34.87 (M60 PB) Daire Sullivan 3000m 9:20.21 (PB) Micheal Murphy 3000m 10:17.38 (PB) Ross Griffin 3000m 10:42....
Author: Denis Daly, Created: 28-06-2021 22:01
Day 1 of the AAI gamews in Morton Stadium saw Carla Sweeney running 2:08.18 and Louise Garffney running 2:21.86 in the 800m. In the mens 3000m Mitchel Byrne ran 8:15.79 and Dave Scanlon 8:26.74. Day 2 saw Stephen Gaffney running a blistering 100m in 10.49 with a wind of 0.8m/s Great preparation for the National Championships!...
Author: Denis Daly, Created: 28-06-2021 08:54
Well done to Rathfarnham WSAF AC's Brian Furey who not alone completed the Wicklow Round but set a new club record of 18 hours and 36 minutes. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Wicklow Round, it is a 100km route covering 26 mountain peaks with a total of 6000m elevation! Not for the faint hearted!...
Author: Denis Daly, Created: 28-06-2021 08:49
Congratulation to everyone who took part in IMRA's Prince Williams Seat Race on June 19th. Barry Minnock won the race, with Ross Griffin in 9th and Laura Flynn 56th and 1st W55....
Author: Denis Daly, Created: 15-06-2021 08:45
The Dublin Graded track and field meets finally kicked off on Wednesday June 9th in Tallaght Athletics Stadium. Because numbers are limited under current Covid rules the meet was kept to 3 events; Hammer, 100m and 1500m. Rathfarnham WSAF AC had a good entry in the 1500m with some fantastic individual performances. The results were as follows: Wome...
Author: Denis Daly, Created: 30-05-2021 10:56
It was fantastic to have a group of our club athletes competing together at a meet after such a long break. There were some great times run with the highlight being Carla Sweeney running a blistering early season PB of 4:17.57 to win the 1500m. She's hitting super form with her first PB in 5 years!!. Stephen Gaffney was second in the 100m A r...
Author: Denis Daly, Created: 24-05-2021 22:35
Great win in the mountains of Gran Canaria for Rathfarnham WSAF AC's Eoin Flynn on Sunday April 17th. We are green with envy that there is racing there and not here! All we can do is keep our fingers crossed for a return to some sort of racing soon!!...Page 9 of 45