It was a great day for Leevale at the Cork County Novice & Masters Road Championships, held at Carrignavar today. There were team victories in the Men’s and Women’s Novice, a team second in the Masters Men, an individual win in the women’s event, and a fantastic turnout in the men’s event with 12 Leevale runners competing overall.

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Leevale juvenile athletes competed at the National Indoor Juvenile competition over the weekend.
Jack Murphy had the performance of the meet by smashing the boys under 12 national indoor high jump record. Jack won the competition at 1.31m and then went on to repeatedly break the 1.33m record by clearing 1.34m, 1.37m and finally 1.40m.
On the [...]

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Presentation of the Athletic Association of Ireland Juvenile Star Awards took place in the Arklow Bay Hotel, Arklow on Saturday 21st March.
David Quilligan was selected for the Bill Battersby special award. The selection was based on his performances at National Juvenile Track & Field and Indoor Championships in 2008.
England based Leevale athlete Paul Scanlon won [...]

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Derval will appear on the Late Late show tonight, tune in at 9:30 on RTÉ 1.
Below a unique picture of training partners Derval & Ailis. We are not too sure about the benefits of this particular drill.

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Derval states that she is delighted to have won a medal at the European Indoor Championships. She is now looking forward to the outdoors season and is setting her sights on a place in the Final in the World Championships.
We are looking forward to seeing Derval back at the club with her latest [...]

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Leevale athlete Ailis McSweeney was in action on day 2 of the European Indoor Championships in Turin. Ailis posted 7.51 in her heat of the 60m, unfortunately this was not good enough to see her proceed to the next round of the event.

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A FIGHTING Derval O’Rourke came to the rescue of wounded Irish morale when she put recent mediocrity behind her to win the bronze medal in the final of the women’s 60 metres hurdles at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Turin yesterday.
This was Ireland’s 12th medal won in these championships since they took on [...]

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Derval wins bronze in Turin!

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