First Session of National Championships Next Week-End
The National Club Championships get under way next weekend in Tullamore. This years Championships will be held over three days Saturday 14th, Sunday 15th, and Saturday 28th of July. West Waterford A.C. will have athletes in action on the track and in the field events on all three days. The events begin at 10am on Saturday morning when the first of six hammer events get under way. Louise O’Neill will compete in the girls under 16, which is the fourth hammer event. The girls Pole Vaults are also scheduled to get under way at 10am and this will see Emma Dunne, Aisling Fennell and Ruth Fennell in action. Lisa Houlihan will also have an early start as the hurdle check in time is 9.00am and the event gets under way at 10.30. Zoe Scanlan competes in the under 15 Discus at 11am with the final competitor of the day Kate Veale on the track for the walk at 12.30 (check in by 11.30).
On Sunday our athletes will again be in action early with Patrick Palmer, Thomas Houlihan, Joe Conway and Michael Devine all competing in the Pole Vault that starts at 10am. At the same time Leann Herlihy competes in the High Jump while Mark Shalloe will run in the 800m at 1.30 (check in time before 12.30). Best of luck to all competing next weekend.
Shona Curran Helps Ireland to 6th place in World Mountain Running Championship
Summer and mountain running don’t usually go together but for the first time this year Ireland sent a youth’s boys and girl’s team to compete at the World Mountain Running Championships in Susa Italy. This race is held in memory of Marco Germatto a seven times Italian cross country and mountain running champion who was killed in a car crash at eighteen years of age. The Irish did well to hold their own against the strongest nations in mountain running. The race was run over a steep 3.3km course and Shona finished third of the Irish girls in 30th position. Ireland finished sixth in the girls competition in a race won by the home team while the boys team finished 7th.
The club would like to extend their sympathy to the Queally and O’Riordan families on their recent bereavement.
