One of the most anticipated events of the Irish athletics calendar, the 123.ie All-Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships, got off to an excellent start in glorious evening sunshine in Tullamore this evening (Friday May 29th).<\/p>\n
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Championship records tumbled across a variety of events including in the Senior Boys 3000m Walk where Matthew Newell (Colaiste Bhaile Chlair) delivered a commanding performance in which he led the field from gun to tape. His winning time of 11:45.81 knocks over ten seconds off the previous record (11:57.47) held by S\u00e9amus Clarke, and subject to ratification is a new Irish U20 record for the event.<\/p>\n
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Caoimhe Phelan (Holy Rosary College Mountbellew) was an impressive winner of the Senior Girls 3000m Walk in 14:40.30.<\/p>\n
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There was a thrilling finish in the Intermediate Girls 2000m Walk, Pearl Sands (St Joseph\u2019s Castlebar), edging out Leah O\u2019Gara (Loretto Letterkenny) in the battle for gold by less than one second, 9:16.83 to 9:17.13.<\/p>\n
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The Senior Boys 5000m was won by Lucas Lyons (St. Clare\u2019s Comprehensive Manorhamilton) who kicked passed Diarmuid Moloney (Nenagh CBS) with 300m to go. Lyon\u2019s winning time of 14:21.68 was only four seconds outside John Treacy\u2019s championship record which has stood for over fifty years.<\/p>\n
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Lucie Cawley (Mercy College Sligo) delivered a masterclass in front-running to obliterate her own championship record in the Intermediate Girls 1500m Steeplechase. Cawley took control of the race from the gun and crossed the line in a time of 4:46.72. Her previous record, set last year, was 5:01.84. Silver medallist Claudia Coyle (Seamount College Kinvara, 4:59.25) and bronze medallist Elizabeth Reamsbottom (Santa Sabina Sutton, 5:00.57) also dipped under the old record in what was a high-quality race.<\/p>\n
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In the Senior Girls 1500m Steeplechase there was no stopping Dearbhla Allen (St. Mary\u2019s Dundalk) who knocked nearly five seconds off the old championship record, running an excellent time of 4:50.85.<\/p>\n
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In the field, Sophie Nwaedozie (Christ King Cork) broke the 17-year-old championship record in the Junior Girls Triple Jump, with a best of 10.83m in the fourth round, while Andrew Nolan (Lanesboro Community College) smashed the Minor Boys Shot Put record, throwing 17.98m.<\/p>\n
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The action resumes tomorrow at 9am in Tullamore, a live stream is available on the Athletics Ireland YouTube channel HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Day One results are HERE<\/a>Championship preview is HERE<\/a>Championship timetable is HERE<\/a>Tickets are HERE<\/a>National U20 record subject to ratification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most anticipated events of the Irish athletics calendar, the 123.ie All-Ireland Schools Track and Field…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-473878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}