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Field-a-Team: Lagoa, our European Cross Country Championship fan-engagement competition, is now open. You can enter a team via the link below. We've added leagues for this edition, so you can play alongside family, friends, or clubmates.
Field-a-Team: LagoaWe've published 4 new profiles ahead of next weekend's European Cross Country Championships: Mary Mulhare, Róise Roberts, Amy Greene and Kirsty Maher.
Stephen McCauley the best of the Irish at Valencia Marathon with 2:15:26 PB.
Summary BU results from yesterday: 1:28.09 for Maeve O'Neill (600m); 9:03.03 for Ava O'Connor, 9:17.49 for Roisin Treacy, 9:25.43 for Cara Laverty and 9:41.57 for Gemma Galvin (3000m women); 7:58.05 for Mark Milner and 7:59.42 for Liam Lyons (3000m men); 15:44.50 for Anika Thompson and 16:08.28 for Grace Richardson (5000m women); 13:24.17 NiU23 Record for Abdel Laadjel; 13:40.25 for Oisín Ó Gailín and 14:34.82 for Jack Fenlon (5000m men).
It looks like Fearghal Curtin was a DNF in Singapore.
Valencia Marathon currently underway.
13:24.17 (outright) PB for Abdel Laadjel at Boston University season opener, improving on the National U23 indoor record of 13:29.79 he ran at the same event last year.
Singapore Marathon underway, with Fearghal Curtin in the lead group.
Maeve O'Neill just ran 1:28.09 over 600m at BU.
There were competitive races at the Jingle Bells 5km in Phoenix Park this morning, with wins for Kevin McGrath and Sorcha Nic Dhomhnaill.
Finn O'Neill achieved a big personal best of 5,261 for the Heptathlon in Reno, USA, yesterday. The result moves him to 4th on the Irish all-time list, and exceeds the Irish U23 record (Diarmuid O'Connor's superior performance from last December, when he was still U23, was never ratified).
There are two big events with Irish interest happening this evening. Irish Marathon record holder Fearghal Curtin is back in action at the Singapore Marathon which starts at 4.30am Sun local time/ 8.30pm this evening in Ireland. US-based distance runners, including Abdel Laadjel and Anika Thompson, will race indoors at Boston University. Both ran indoor personal bests there last December.
Entries are now open for Field-a-Team: Lagoa. Simply select 3 athletes in each of the individual races, and 3 teams in the mixed relay, and earn points based on where they finish.
Later this month, the Irish team will head to the European Cross Country in Lagoa, Portugal, with serious medal aspirations. We've written about this and other events with Irish athletes in our latest article.
Abdel Laadjel, who recently finished 9th at the NCAA Div I Cross Country Championships, is among the Elite entries for Saturday's Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener at Boston University, famous for fast indoor distance times. Laadjel ran his outright 5000m PB of 13:29.79 at the same event last year. The Irish indoor record is Andrew Coscoran's 13:12.56 from January 2024. Several other Irish athletes are entered across the 3000m and 5000m races.
The correct answers for yesterday's teaser (i.e. who the two Irish athletes are that will have competed in every edition of Euro Cross since Lisbon 2019) are Danielle Donegan and Cormac Dalton.
Dalton will be competing in the Senior race for the 5th consecutive time, but another athlete will be competing in the same age group (not senior) for the 4th consecutive time. Who is it?
Aisling Lane (Half Marathon Race Walk), Joe Mooney (Marathon Race Walk), Matthew Glennon (Marathon Race Walk), Oisin Lane (Marathon Race Walk)
Brian Fay (Cross Country), Cormac Dalton (Cross Country), Jack O'Leary (Cross Country), Darragh McElhinney (Cross Country), Efrem Gidey (Cross Country), Fiona Everard (Cross Country), Niamh Allen (Cross Country), Danielle Donegan (Cross Country), Mary Mulhare (Cross Country), Emily Haggard-Kearney (Cross Country), Nick Griggs (Cross Country U23), Jonas Stafford (Cross Country U23), Niall Murphy (Cross Country U23), Callum Morgan (Cross Country U23), Lughaidh Mallon (Cross Country U23), Róise Roberts (Cross Country U23), Amy Greene (Cross Country U23), Anika Thompson (Cross Country U23), Ava O'Connor (Cross Country U23), Kirsty Maher (Cross Country U23), Noah Harris (Cross Country U20), Caolan McFadden (Cross Country U20), Tom Breslin (Cross Country U20), Finn Diver (Cross Country U20), Cormac Dixon (Cross Country U20), Emma Hickey (Cross Country U20), Lucy Foster (Cross Country U20), Eimear Cooney (Cross Country U20), Abby Smith (Cross Country U20), Anna Gardiner (Cross Country U20), Andrew Coscoran (Cross Country Mixed Relay), Cian McPhillips (Cross Country Mixed Relay), Eimear Maher (Cross Country Mixed Relay), Laura Nicholson (Cross Country Mixed Relay)
Official selections coming soon!
