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County
Athletic Notes Kenny
Curran wins a very close contest, team victories for Dundrum and Clonmel The In the Junior Men’s Race
Vincent Molumby of Thurles Crokes ran a great race to win the Men’s title in 10
mins for the 3k distance, great running. Then we had Kevin Moore of Dundrum
running well to win the Silver in 10 mins 40 secs. In the Junior Ladies race we
had Catherine Kelly of Dundrum making a welcome return to competition and she
made it a winning one when coming home a very convincing winner in 12 mins 16
secs. The Silver medal was won by the improving Roisin Ryan of Thurles Crokes
in 18mins. In the Master 6K road race we
had some great tussles, none more so than at the front of affairs. Right from
the start a group of athletes set the pace and they included the home favourite
Kenny Curran of Ballynonty along with the ever improving Billy Phillips of
Thurles Crokes as well as David Kenneally of Thurles Crokes. This trio set a
strong pace midway through the race and soon it became clear that the winner
would come out of this group. All these three athletes were striving to not
only win the race but be crowned County 0/35 Champion for 2008. As the leading
group came back into the village Billy and Kenny were going all out with David
hot on their heels. Then on the downward run to the finish Kenny edged it very
close to the finishing line to the cheers of all the local community. Kenny won
a great race in 20 mins 50 secs with Billy winning the Silver medal in 20 mins
51 secs and with David Kenneally capturing the Bronze medal in 20 mins 53 secs,
a brilliant race and well done to the three athletes for such performances.
Then we had James Ryan of Dundrum finishing 4th in 21 mins 1 sec to
capture the 0/40 title. Michael Moore of Dundrum showed a welcome return to
form when running very well to finish 5th in 21 mins 12 secs to
capture the 0/45 title. Pat Ryan of Dundrum making a welcome return to racing
showed good form when finishing 6th overall to win the Silver medal
0/40 in 21 mins 25 secs. Then we had Tommy Moloney of Thurles Crokes running
well to win the Silver medal 0/45 when finishing 7th in 21 mins 35
secs. Keith Barry of Carrick on Suir, looking fresh from his exploits in the
Longford marathon last week, ran well when finishing 8th in 21 mins
42 secs. Then we had Joe Keaney of Coolquill running well to win the Bronze
medal 0/45 in 21 mins 49 secs. John Walsh of Clonmel also ran well to win the
Bronze medal 0/40 in 22 mins 30 secs. Then we had Tommy Cahill running very
well when finishing 13th overall to capture the 0/50 title in 23
mins 25 secs. P J Holmes of Dundrum ran well when winning the Silver medal in
24 mins 10 secs when finishing 24th overall. Then we had Denis Kenny
of St Catherine’s making a welcome return to racing a winning one when
capturing the 0/50 Bronze medal in 24 mins 21 secs. The 0/55 title was also a
very close affair between the Coolquill duo of Leslie Smyth and Matt Alexander.
These two athletes set a strong pace and as the athletes came back into the
village Leslie was in the lead and he maintained the strong tempo to win the
title in 24 mins with Matt winning the Silver medal in 24 mins 6 secs. Then we
had Paddy Dwyer of Ballynonty winning the Bronze medal in 27 mins 41 secs when
finishing 31st overall. Michael Dundon of Thurles Crokes ran very
well to capture the 0/60 title when finishing 25th overall in 25
mins 29 secs. The Silver medal 0/60 was won by Myles McHugh of Clonmel when
finishing 36th in 28 mins 51 secs. In the Team event we had two
competitions, the 0/35 and 0/50 team competitions. In the 0/35 competition we
had a fantastic event with the top two teams, Dundrum and Thurles Crokes, finishing on the same points, 27 each. On the
count back, it was decided by which of the 4th scorer on each team
finished first, and here Dundrum edged it by 3 places. The successful winning
team of Dundrum was made up on James Ryan, Michael Moore, Pat Ryan and Tommy
Byrnes who finished 12th in 23 mins 3 secs. The Thurles Crokes team
that capture Silver medals were Billy Philips, David Kenneally, Tommy Moloney
and Declan Doherty who ran very well when finishing 15th in 23 mins
35 secs. The Coolquill team of Joe Keaney, Tadhg Vaughan who was 11th
in 22 mins 37 secs, Jim McDonnell who was 18th in 23 mins 58 secs
and Andrew Galloway who was 24th in 24 mins 56 secs captured the
Bronze medals. In the 0/50 title competition those close rivals Coolquill and
Clonmel were to the fore. In the end the Clonmel trio of Tommy Cahill, Ned O
Brien who was 24th in 24 mins 56 secs and Maurice Boland who was 27th
in 26 mins won the Gold Medals. The Coolquill trio of Leslie Smyth, Matt
Alexander and Martin Ivors who was 30th in 26 misn 38 secs won the
Silver medals. The Ladies race was also
competitive. Here we had Denise Compton of Dundrum running a great race when
winning the Gold medal 0/35 when finishing in 25 mins 32 secs. Then we had Nora
Kennedy of Thurles Crokes making a welcome return to racing a winning one when
winning the 0/40 title in 26 mins 2 secs. Anne Cronin of Carrick on Suir
underlined her recent good form when winning the 0/45 title in 28 mins 21 secs.
Then we had Teresa Grant of Thurles Crokes making her debut a successful when
winning the Silver medal in 38 mins 56 secs. Well done to the Ballynonty
Club for putting on a great promotion and to everyone who helped to organise
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