No stopping those WAC Ladies on their mission to follow their munster relay title with a National one! Jacinta Power, Suzanne Dullaghan, Gabrielle Blair and Elaine Barry were that winning team, in both the 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m relays, narrowly beating our second WAC team of Cathy Cronin, Maire Lawlor, Deirdre Chapman and Mary Jennings. The mens team of Brendan Aspel, Jim Baldwin, Eoin Palmer and Tom O'Brien got silver in both of their relays so the challenge is now on for the men to see if they match the ladies in the Indoors at the end of the year!!
Individual National Champions now include Jacinta Power (Long & High Jump), Gabrielle Blair (400m), Mary Jennings (800m, 1500m, 3000m and Discus), Suzanne Dullaghan (100m, 200) and Tom O'Brien (Long Jump). Some of these also won silver and/or bronze in other individual events.
Elaine Barry, Maire Lawlor and Brendan Aspel won bronze in their respective 200m, 1500m and 5K and Deirdre Chapman won 4 silvers in the throwing events of Hammer, Shot, Discus and Javelin (of which 2 only missed gold by the smallest of margins!..next year!!!)
In summary 23 individual medals and 6 team medals were achieved by the club so well done us!!! Team manager for the day Derek Grant says "Track & Field is where its all, and of course a bit of cross country, and a bit of road, and race walking"!
Thinking of getting involved? Contact Derek, Tom or Jacinta.
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