Sandis and Siobhain win
Poulmucka 8k The Poulmucka
8k road race took place in ideal sunny conditions last week when a record
number of 112 athletes competed. Sandis Bralitis took up the pace right from the start and for most
of the first 2 mile he was accompanied by Sergio Turea
of Clonliffe Harriers. However over the final 5k Sandis Bralitis opened up a nice
lead to come home a worthy winner when finishing in 24 mins
53 secs. then we had Sergio Turea
of Clonliffe Harriers finishing 2n din 25 mins 7 secs with Ravis Zakis of West Waterford
finishing 3rd in 26 mins 44 secs. For the record Danny Smith of Ballynonty ran a great
race when finishing 4th in 26 mins 47 secs. Donal Keane of Dundrum was 5th in 26 mins
55 secs with Stephen Hunter of Clonmel 6th
in 27 mins 31 secs. Then we
had Shane Mullaney of Thurles Crokes finishing 7th
in 27 mins 35 secs. Then we
had James Ryan of Dundrum winning the 0/40 award when
finishing 8th overall in 27 mins 40 secs. Mike Cunningham of Bilboa
was 2nd 0/40 in 28 mins 39 secs. The 0/45 award was won by Neillie
Hall of Ballynonty when finishing in 32 mins 3 secs. Tommy Cahill of Clonmel won the 0/50 award when
finishing in 31 mins 55 secs.
Matt Alexander of Coolquill won the 0/55 award when
finishing in 32 mins 10 secs.
William O Gorman of St Catherine’s won the 0/60 award when finishing in 34 mins 41 secs. Vincent Molumby of
Thurles Crokes was a convincing winner of the Junior Men’s award when finishing
11th overall in 28 mins 23 secs. In the team event the Dundrum
team of Donal Keane along with John Shanahan (28 mins 8 secs) and Martin Keane (28
mins 29 secs) won the award
with the Clonmel team of Stephen Hunter, Cian Cronin
(30 mins 50 secs) and Eoin McGrath (30 mins 57 secs) were 2nd with the Coolquill
team of Dermot Logue (29 mins 42 secs),
Donal Horgan (30 mins 45 secs) and Andrew Smyth (33
mins 10 secs). The master team
of Niall O Ceallaigh (29 mins
7 secs), John Walsh (29 mins
38 secs) and Sebastian Boisson
(30 mins 32 secs) won their
section. The Ladies race saw Siobhain O Doherty of Borrisokane winning a close race when
running well to finish in 31 mins 4 secs when finishing 30thoverall. Then we had
Angela McCann of Clonmel running well to finish 2nd in 32nd
place overall in 31 mins 14 secs
with Diane Behan of Wins
for Mairead and Tommy As part of the Tipperary
Challenge the organisers decided to hold a competition for all those athletes
that competed in last year’s Challenge. There was an award for the most Improve
Male and Female athletes based on their performances last year. Based on their times for last year’s race in
the John Joe Barry 5k, Bulmers 10k and Poulmucka 8K races it was decided to award the winners of
the male and female categories a special award. The winners were Mairead o Connor of Dundrum and
Tommy Falconer of Carrick on Suir and the athletes
were presented with their awards by the Fethard 6k road race – 4th race of The action moves to Fethard this Thursday night at The Walls of Fethard 6k once again offers a fine array of prizes like 1st
4 Senior Men, 1st 2 Vets 0/40, 0/45, 1st Vet 0/50, 0/55,
0/60, 0/65 and 1st Junior Man, 1st 4 Senior Ladies, 1st
2 0/35 and 1st Junior Lady. Spot Prizes as well. The Entry Fee is 8
Euros and there will be changing facilities at the