At the September meeting of Cork county board, several inter club transfers were passed including Fiachra Lombard from UCC to Leevale, and Orla Coughlan from Bandon to Leevale.

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Mark Carroll’s Olympic dreams ended in Sydney tonight when he placed seventh in his heat of the 5,000m, missing out on one of the six automatic qualifying places.  A slower heat than the first one, and a time of 13:30.80, put paid to any hope of being one of the fastest losers.  Although he ran [...]

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The track and field season may be well and truly over on the home front, but with the Olympics, and the World junior championships next month in South America, the track just wont go away.  Today there was an international junior track and field fixture in Bath with a good representation of Irish athletes.  Highlight [...]

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The annual Evening Echo Ladies Mini Marathon attracted a record 4,000 competitors today, and a fine performance from Ann Keenan Buckley from the North Laois club.  The defending champion was in devastating form, pulling away early on and winning in a time of 26:45.  Mary Donohue of Clonliffe Harriers was second in 27:33, Dutch visitor [...]

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Mark Carroll showed himself to be in good racing condition with a fluent win over 2,000 metres in a mini-meeting on a warm-up track adjacent to the main Olympic stadium today.  Carroll won a six-man race in 5:04.96, covering the last 400 metres in 56.30 and the last 200m in 27.8 to shake off the [...]

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For those of you who fancy the odd flutter, Leevale’s own Mark Carroll is rated at 66-1 by bookmaker Paddy Power to win the gold in the Olympic 5000m.  For latest prices, see: https://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_category&category=SPORTS

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The American collegiate cross country season is underway once again, and the established Cork contingent at Western Kentucky University got their season off to a flying start. Running at the Tennessee Intecollegiates in Nashville Olga Cronin from the East Cork club was the winner in a time of 14:23, just two seconds clear of Carrignavars [...]

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The club, after a great track season that saw both mens and womens teams qualify for the Mazda Premier Division league finals, has now re-commenced training after a brief end of track season rest.  The club is buoyed by the success enjoyed by Leevale athletes at all levels, especially by European indoor 3,000m champion Mark [...]

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Dareen Dineen placed fifth in the second 800m race at the IAAF Grand Prix Meet in Reiti tonight, missing out again on that elusive Olympic A-standard.  Running in the slower of the two races, Dareen finished in 1:48.27, well outside the A-standard.  Unfortunately for Darren, the first race was much faster, won in a time [...]

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