Louise and Emma Brent were our lady champions again this week: Emma in the Long Jump and Louise in the Javelin, Discus and Hammer.
Brendan Leahy added the 200m title to his 100m and 400m from last week and with a severe headwind to sprint against in the homestraight still managed to knock out a credible 23.9sec for the 200m. Tom O'Brien was 2nd to Brendan in 25.4 and added the high jump title (in going very close to a pb at 1:73) to his long jump title last week.
Brian Swaby was very happy with a 9:34 time for a win in the 3000m mens race and was followed home by David Cunningham, both athletes having run great times at the Tom Jordan memorial race in Portlaw on Friday night. Tom being a former member of Waterford AC.
A top class race was witnessed in the mens 800m where Andrew Connick of WIT AC acted as pacer for Niall Tuohy to bring him through in sub 52sec at 400m and as a result everybody in the race was chasing throughout giving club members Frank Quinlan a great time of 2min 9.2sec for 2nd with Pat Breen 3rd in 2min 9.8sec and Dermot McCarthy winning the Masters Category in 2min 20sec.
Video above is the 200m mens final with Brendan Leahy winning and Tom O'Brien 2nd and winning the masters category.
Cork Graded Series
Over the next couple of months Cork County Board will be holding a graded series of track and field over six dates and the first is on Monday 23rd may at 7pm at the CIT track in Cork. Events on the night are 200m, 3000m, Long Jump, Shot and 4X400m Relay. All events are for men and ladies and for those who have not done graded series before these events are arrannged as Grades A,B,C and D so athletes are grouped against athletes who are of similar ability so a good competition is to be expected. Information in terms of entries and travel arangements to tom@waterfordac.com. It is hoped that WAC will have members at each event as we did last year.
Full details of the series coming up can be found by clicking HERE
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