Dublin Marathon/ National C/ships

Thursday Training, St. Killians College

Thursday Training will relocate to a new venue this year, for our winter training. We will meet at the sports hall to the rear of St., Killians Community College, Ballywaltrim. It is located just off the Boghall Road, opposite the Boghall Shopping Centre. Training commemces at the usual time of 6.30pm.   

NOELLE WINS INTER C/C, SADHBH WINS BRONZE.

At Sunday's  Wicklow Inter C/C C/ships, Noelle Thorpe recorded a magnificent win to take the GOLD medal, in a sprint finish with Sandra Lynch from Kilcoole AC, and lead the team of Dian Doll (12), Charlotte Stevens (13), Grainne Cunningham (15), Siobhan Butler (16) and Andrea Murphy (22), to 3rd place and bronze medal position.

In the mens race Joe Cawley finished in 4th place, Chris Morgan 5th, Bill Stanley (26), Jason O'Connor (27) and Denis Patterson (28) completed the Bray line up. No medals, Joe was just pipped for bronze, but fine performances all round.

Sadhbh O'Loan took bronze in the Girls U/13 C/ship, and with Aoife Grogan, Mia Mercier and Hannah Gruebsch  took the bronze medal in the team classification. Sadhbh also took bronze last week in the U/14 C/ships.

In the boys U/15 race, Cian Galligan, Joe Phelan, Ben Adams and Simon Jennings took the team silver medal.

There was also fine performances from Orla O'Callaghan, Aoife Carter, Isobel Clooney (U/11 Girls), Fionn O'Loan, Joe Walsh, Daragh Grogan (Boys U/11), Jack Parker, Adam Walsh (Boys U/13), and  Shauna Galligan (U/15). Excellent performances all round.

At the recent SMRC Urban Run 10k, Tom Cavanagh ran 43.59, 25th overall and 1st O/50. Paul Humphries took part in the Donadea RC 10k on Sunday 13th Oct. The race is 3k on road then 7k in Donadea Forest, Paul ran 48.24. Well done to all who took part.

WORLD medals for JOY JOHNSON and TONY GARTLAND.

Two of our fellow Sli Cualann athletes have won medals at recent World C/ship events.

The World Masters Mountain Running Championships took place at Janské Láznĕ in the Krkonoše Mountains (Giant Mountains), Czech Republic on 31 August, 2013. Joy Johnson competed in the W40 category. The championship race was over 8.6 km to Černá hora, an uphill climb of over 650 m in warm conditions. The Irish team came third behind the Czech Republic (1,5,8 = 14pts) and Germany (3,14,15=32 pts), with Zoe Melling 10^th, Vanessa Salier 12^th and Joy Johnson 13^th (35 pts) taking the Bronze team medals.  Bray Runners extends its heartiest congratulations to Joy on this fine achievement on the World stage..

At the 19th World Transplant Games held in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa from 28^th July to 4^th August, Tony Gartland (Slí Cualann) was one of three Irish athletes to win four medals. In the M50-59 category Tony took Gold in the 5,000 m race walk event.  To this he added a Silver medal in the 5K road race championship, and two Bronze medals in the 800 m and 1500 m.   An active participant in sport in his youth, at age 19 Tony was diagnosed with active chronic hepatitis. A decade of ill health followed. Tony became the first person in Ireland to undergo a liver transplant in St. Vincent’s 20 years ago. 

Tony competes in all the Co. Wicklow Championships, Leinster Championships and Athletics Ireland National Championships. He supports all the local road races and Fit4Life events. Tony Gartland is an inspiration to all of us. All at Bray Runners congratulate Tony on his outstanding success.