Updated: Full results
Leevale senior athletes competed in the second round of the National Leagues in Tullamore on Sunday. Once again Leevale travelled with strong teams. In the men’s division North Down were strong across a number of events and on the day deserved first place on 110 points. Leevale men’s team finished second on 103 points. Mark Hanrahan once again had an excellent run in the 1500m, stretching out the field to win in style, while the Leevale 4×100 team looked extremely efficient and comfortably won the race against strong opposition. Cathal Owens ran a PB of 50 seconds flat to win the 400m.
The women’s team was strengthened for this round of the competition with the addition of Christina Broderick and Sarah Ryan and both athletes picked up valuable points for the club. Sarah won the pole vault and was third in the javelin while Christina won the 400m hurdles and was third in high jump. Overall the women’s team performed well, securing third place with a total of 100 points
Both the men’s and women’s teams are now comfortably qualified for the National League Final which will be held in Tullamore on July 27th. With the support of all our senior athletes Leevale has a great opportunity to do well in the final this year.
Leevale results from Tullamore:
Event | Men | Finish | Women | Finish | |
100mH | Dennis Finnegan | 2 | Katey Byrd | 2 | |
3000m Walk | Ashling Gould | 3 | |||
400mH | Chris Murnane | 4 | Christina Broderick | 1 | |
4x100m | Leevale | 1 | Leevale | 2 | |
1500m | Mark Hanrahan | 1 | Jessie Van Hatten | 3 | |
400m | Cathal Owens | 1 | Louise McArdle | 2 | |
3000 S/C | |||||
200m | Carl McNamara | 2 | Claire McSweeney | 4 | |
800m | John Shine | 6 | Ashling Gould | 4 | |
5000m | James Grufferty | 4 | Carmel Parnell | 3 | |
100m | Derek Duff | 2 | Louise McArdle | 4 | |
4x400m | Leevale | 2 | Leevale | 2 | |
Hammer | Pawel Hazler | 2 | |||
Pole Vault | Sarah Ryan | 1 | |||
Shot | Joe Nagle | 3 | |||
Long Jump | Carl McNamara | 4 | Imelda Morrission | 2 | |
Discus | Pawel Hazler | 2 | Katey Byrd | 3 | |
High Jump | Breandán Dennehy | 3 | Christina Broderick | 3 | |
Javelin | Sarah Ryan | 3 | |||
Triple Jump | Dennis Finnegan | 2 | Katey Byrd | 3 | |
56 lbs | Joe Nagle | 4 | |||
Premier Men | Premier Women | ||||
North Down | 110 | DSD | 117 | ||
Leevale A.C. | 103 | Bandon Comp. | 112 | ||
Menapians (A) | 102 | Leevale A.C. | 100 | ||
Meath Athletics | 97 | Athletics Wexford | 84 | ||
DSD | 90 | ||||
Raheny Shamrock | 80 |