{"id":610089,"date":"2026-08-31T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/610089\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:42:10","slug":"irish-masters-on-fire-in-daegu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/610089\/","title":{"rendered":"IRISH MASTERS ON FIRE IN DAEGU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Eight days of competition completed and Team Ireland have already claimed an outstanding 12 medals at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The 28-strong Irish team has delivered some superb performances, including double golds for Sean McMullin (M80) and John MacDermott (M80).<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">GOLD<br \/>Sean McMullin (Mullingar Harriers) \u2013 M80 10km Road Walk<br \/>Sean McMullin (Mullingar Harriers) \u2013 M80 20km Road Walk<br \/>John MacDermott (Sligo AC) \u2013 M80 Decathlon<br \/>John MacDermott (Sligo AC) \u2013 M80 200m Hurdles<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">SILVER<br \/>Pat Kelly (DSD) \u2013 W75 200m<br \/>Brenda Gannon \u2013 W50 20km Road Walk<br \/>Edel Maguire (Clonliffe Harriers) \u2013 W65 200m<br \/>Lea Fulcher (Plant Based AC) \u2013 M50 1500m<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">BRONZE<br \/>Stephen Hunter (St Abbans) \u2013 M45 3000m Steeplechase<br \/>Edel Maguire (Clonliffe Harriers) \u2013 W65 100m<br \/>Rachel Murphy (Plant Based AC) \u2013 W40 5000m<br \/>M65 4x100m Relay \u2013 Shane Sheridan, Niall Kelly, Richard Phelan &amp; Steve Berkeley<\/p>\n<p>Three days of competition remain, with plenty more action still to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmac2026.com\/eng\/intro\/handbook.html?tab=02\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Official Competition Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight days of competition completed and Team Ireland have already claimed an outstanding 12 medals at the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-610089","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\/610089","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=610089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}