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Monday, August 13, 2007

Mizuno Mile at Stormont

James Nolan ran a 3:55 mile in the Mizuno Mile in Stormont recently to finish 2nd, 1 second behind Matt bowser of Lincoln. 3rd was Garreth Hill of Ballymena in 3:58.

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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Heusden & Zaragoza

James Nolan ran 3:49.60 in Zaragoza Spain to finish 10th in the 1500m.

In Heusden, Belgium Dervla O'Rourke finished 4th in the 100m. Full race results below.

100m hurdles
1 JONES LOLO USA 12.74
2 ONYIA JOSEPHINE ESP 12.77
3 DENBY NICHOLE USA 12.88
4 O’ROURKE DERVAL IRL 12.95
5 REDOUMI FLORA GRE 13.01
6 BLISS ANDREA JAM 13.02
7 BERINGS ELINE BEL 13.14
8 DAVIN ELISABETH BEL 13.33

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Monday, July 16, 2007

IMC @ Irishtown

James Nolan finished a close 2nd to David McCarthy in the IMC A 800m last Saturday in Irishtown stadium. James dipped low at the finish but McCarthy was declared the winner by photo finish analysis althoug the pair were given the same times (1.50.08). Conor Healy finished 4th in 1:51.75. Eoin Cummins ran 1:54.7 in 9th

Mick Clohissey ran the 1500m in 3:58.57 to finish 7th ahead of fellow UCD student Garrett Coughlan who finished a lack lustre 11th in 4:08.51.

Alumni Simon Kenny ran the 800m B race and finished 6th in 2:03.62.

One of the meet highlights was the 2:09.94 800m time by Hazel Murphy in the womens race. Hazel is UCD alumni but next year will be attending a masters program with DCU.

The meet starter was alumni John O'Connor

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Posted : 31/03/05
UCD Women were 2nd in Intervarsity Cross Country avenging their Colours loss. UCD Men were 3rd, reversing their result in the Colours as well by another ridiculously close margin. Event Hosted by Queens University Belfast. Cruel course.

Posted : 09/02/05
The Colours Cross Country competition took place on Sunday February 5th. Both Men's and Women's events were well contested. Eilis Connery of UCD triumphed over the womens 3.5km course with Eimear O'Brien the next UCD athlete in 4th. The womens team however lost out with Trinity bunching their 4th 5th and 6th scorers well. Ken Nugent was the first UCD men's competitor home in 3rd wtih Patrick Costello in 4th. This time it was UCD who bunched well but the competition could not have been closer. Both teams finished on 39 points. According to the rules of the competition UCD were crowned champions because their 6th finisher was 11th overall while TCD's was 12th. Congratulations to all competitors

Posted : 31/01/05
The Irish Universities Mountian Running Championships took place on Sunday 30th January. The distance was not 8.4km as advertised (more like 10-11km). Howevever both mens and womens teams triumphed emphatically. For more detailed results go to here.

Posted : 20/01/05
The Irish Universities Mountian Running Championships take place on Sunday 30th January. The distance is 8.4km. Those who want to run should ring Maria Slattery (Womens Team) or Hugo Leeney (Mens Team). For more information go here. Team lists will be posted in members section.

Posted : 19/01/05
The 2005 colours cross country takes place in the trinity grounds in Santry on February 5th. This event will serve as a trial for the Intervarsity Cross Country event which takes place in Belfast on Febraury 26th.

Posted : 25/11/04
The Intervarsity Road Relays took place on Saturday the 20th of November in scenic surroundings at NUI Maynooth. The Women's first team and the men's first team placed second splitting the respective DCU first and second teams. More to come in sporting news soon.

Posted : 02/12/04
Teams for the Intervarsity Indoors have now being SELECTED. The event takes place on Friday and Saturday the 3rd and 4th of December in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary at the National Indoor Athletics Arena. A coach leaves from car park opposite bus terminus @ 730am on Friday and leaves Nenagh at 5pm on Saturday. Accomodation has been arranged for the whole team. Call Hugo on 0877828053 for more info.

Posted : 25/11/04
The Intervarsity Road Relays took place on Saturday the 20th of November in scenic surroundings at NUI Maynooth. The Women's first team and the men's first team placed second splitting the respective DCU first and second teams. More to come in sporting news soon.

Posted : 16/11/04
APOLOGIES - RECONFIRMATION - An evening of sporting discussion with some past Olympians and elite athletes will take on Tuesday November 23rd in the Astra Hall (students centre). It promises to be an interesting night and hopefully will provide some insight into what it takes to get to the top of the athletic game. Come along if you can and spread the word! The original event was cancelled, rescheduled errroneously to the 16th of November but is now undoubtedly gonna take place as above.

Posted : 09/10/04
Winter Training has begun. Training times have now been posted on this site. To make sure you don't miss out on changes or variations you should call your captain or check out a notice board.


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