On a lovely Saturday afternoon in Waterford the first annual WAC WIT 6K Carraiganore run was held with Waterford AC men and women winning both team events.
Caitriona Gough won the F35 category prize and great to see the Tuesday and Thursday sessions at 5:45 on the track really paying off for Caitriona.
Anne Fitgerald, back running strong after a long fight with a leg injury, was an impressive winner in the F50 category.
The winning mens team was Frank Quinlan, Jim Baldwin and David Cunningham and the Ladies winning team was Suzanne Dullaghan, Elaine Barry and Mary Burke.
Junior winners for the club were Alan Slattery (3rd) and Niamh Tebay (2nd) and Bernadette Power (4th).
Great to see so many members wearing the club singlet and while the course was tough all agreed it was a great event with a very high standard of athlete. Great marshalling of the course by WIT students and WAC members alike was evident and hats off to the WIT students in organising and distributing so many spot prizes. After such a tough run a very welcome and superb catering service was provided through Campus Services in WIT. Andrew Connick of WIT is to be congratulated on pulling out all the stops in making this first of many WAC WIT ventures an unqualified success for both clubs.
A surprise presentation was also made to club captain Tom O'Brien for a successful past year of competition where he set Irish record marks in the Masters O40 category for Outdoor Pentathlon, Decathlon and Indoor Penthathlon and won silver medals in the British Masters outdoor and indoor pentathlon championships and finished eight in the Decathlon at the European championships. We wish Tom the best of luck later this month when he competes in the European Indoor championships in the Pentahlon in Belgium. Receiving his presentation, from Albert Tebay, Tom thanked the club for the vey nice plaque and (flashy) club gear and looked forward to many years of strong links between Waterford AC and the WIT AC in this Carraiganore race and also the developement of athletics facilities at the WIT Carraiganore Campus generally.
The consensus among athletes and spectators alike was that Sports Campus Carraiganore facility could be the centre of athletics for Waterford, the region and beyond for many years to come and Waterford AC are delighted to be intrinsically linked in this endeavour.
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