Weekly Athletics Report

Galway
Combined Events

The Galway Combined Events championships took place last Saturday in Dangan, with athletes competing over four events at U12 and U13 level, and five events from U14 level upwards.

In the Girls events, at U12 level, Juno Hayes of Galway City Harriers took the honours in the quadrathlon, while in the U13 event, Danielle Moynihan of Tuam AC emerged victorious. Caoimhe Farrell of Loughrea AC won the U15 Girls Pentathlon, with Aoife Waldron of GCH winning at U16 level. Aoibhin Farrell of Loughrea claimed the U 17 title with Eilis Keogh of Corrib AC winning the U18 Girls title.

In the Boys events, the multi-talented Darragh Fahy of Loughrea won the U13 Boys quadrathlon over four events, while at U14 level, Oisin Phelan of Tuam AC claimed gold. In the U15 competition Liam Shaw of Athenry AC pipped Matthieu Madden of GCH to gold after a very competitive pentathlon, while Samuel Madden of GCH won the U18 Boys Pentathlon.

Pictured are Medal winners at the Galway combined events championships held in Dangan last weekend. L to R Oisin Phelan of Tuam AC, Matthieu Madden of GCh and Liam Shaw of Athenry AC

Galway
Cross Country

The 2019 Galway Cross Country
championships will take place over two days, on October 6th and October 20th
next, with the Uneven Ages at Juvenile level for U9 to U19 athletes being held
in the Palace Grounds in Tuam next Sunday along with the Adult Senior and Masters
championships.

Among the favorites in the Senior
races next weekend will be the likes of Rob Lennon of Castlegar and Mark Davis
and Jack Miskella of Craughwell, with Kathryn Casserly and Niamh Hennelly of
GCH, along with Aine O Farrell and Edel Kelly of Athenry, all likely to
challenge for honours in the Ladies section

The programmed next Sunday starts at 1pm, with the U9 races first off. The Juvenile Even ages championships from U10 to U18 age groups will be held in Bushfield, Loughrea on day two, 20^th October alongside the adult Intermediate championships.

Galway
Cross Country fixtures

The Galway Primary Schools Cross Country championships Finals for 2019 takes place this Tuesday 1st October next, in Renmore, Galway City. The Semi finals were held last week with 2,000 school children from over 100 schools in Galway taking part in what is undoubtedly one of the most exciting events on the athletics calendar.

Loughrea
Grey Lake 10k

Local athlete Cathal O Reilly took the honours at The Loughrea AC hosted Grey Lake 10k held Sunday last 29th September. O Reilly stormed home to victory in a great time of 34.51 on the testing 10k circuit, continuing his great run of form this season. Second place went to Arkadius Skupin with Ian Killy of West Limerick AC third. First lady over the line was Denise Barrett in 43.11, with Yvonne Fehilly of Athenry AC second and Nicola Egan third.

Marathon

Ciaran Faherty of GCH put in another
hugely impressive performance last Sunday at the famed Berlin Marathon. Faherty
who is now based in New Zealand ran a superb time of 2:19:05.

There were other good performances
from Galway athletes, with David Keaney of GCH clocking 2.53, and the evergreen
Martin Kearney of GCH breaking three hours yet again with a fantastic time of 2.59.40

Fixtures

Galway
Bay races

The Galway Bay series of road races takes place in Salthill, in Galway City,  next Saturday 5th October. There are three events on the card; a full marathon over 26.2 miles which starts at 8.30 am, the 10k which commences at 10.30 am and the half marathon which kicks off at 12.15 pm. Over 3,000 entrants are expected to compete on what is one of the biggest days of road racing in the West annually.