Cork Athletics County Novice and Juvenile Cross-Country Championship Results - November 1973
Gold Medal for Liam O'Brien
Cork BLE County Novice Cross-Country Championships 1973
Leamlara, Watergrasshill
Sunday November 10th 1973
Cork Examiner report Monday November 11th 1973
[2020 Notes] The report throws up a few interesting snippets: The second placed Novice, Tim Goulding, ran with Olympic AC, which is now defunct, but was based in the Ballincollig area. Tim went on to run with Leevale AC. The team event was won by Midleton AC, and, consisted of Liam O'Brien, Paul Mulholland, the late Jerry Martin (who died in 2012) and Phil McGrath – who is still winning national medals in 2020!
The juvenile events also throw up some well-known names: Tony Gilbert (Blarney) won the boys U12. Kathleen Glavin (Midleton), who would go on to become Irish senior long jump champion, and Irish international, won the girls U15, ahead of Helen O’Callaghan, who later ran for East Cork. In the boys U15, second was Terry McSweeney (Grange-Fermoy) a brother of Fanahan, who followed him to McNeese State University.
Cork Examiner Report
Liam O'Brien of Midleton AC won the individual Gold Medal, in the BLE Cork County men's cross-country championship, at Leamlara, Watergrasshill, yesterday. O’Brien was pressed by T. Goulding of Olympia, and JJ Gleeson, Carraig na hhFear-Carrigtwohill for over half of the four miles journey, but he came away strongly, with half a lap to go, to cross the finishing line a worthy winner, in a time of 23 minutes 26 seconds. Midleton won the team cham¬pionship for the first time in its history, edging out Carraig na bhFear-Carrigtwohill by 6 points.
Results
Cork County Men’s Novice Championship (4 miles) Individual: 1, L. O'Brien, Midleton AC; 2. T. Goulding. Olympic AC: 3. J. J. Gleeson. Carraig na bhFear-Carrigtwohill AC
Team: 1. Midleton AC (1 L O’Brien; 3 P. Mullholland; 5 G. Martin; 14 P. McGrath) 23 pts.: 2. Carraig na bhFear-Carrigtwohill AC. (2 JJ Gleeson; 8 J. Curtin; 9 D. Dinan; 10 W. Walsh) 29 pts; 3. UCC AC 54
Juvenile events:
Girls under-11: I. B Vaughan Blarney AC; 2. M Horgan Togher AC; 3. C Harte, Carraig na bhFear-Carrigtwohill AC
Boys under-11: 1, T. Gilbert, Blarney AC.; 2. J. Dempsey, Youghal AC; 3, K. O'Callaghan, Ballincollig AC
Girls under-13: 1. M Smiddy. Youghal AC; 2. L. Guilfoyle. Midleton AC; 3. M Mulcahy.
Boys under-13: 1, P. Sullivan. Midleton A.C.; 2. J. Callaghan. Watergrasshill AC; 3. M. Murphy. Ballincollig AC
Girls under-15: 1. K. Glavin, Midleton AC: 2. H O’Callaghan. Watergrasshill AC. 3. B. Hartnett. Midleton AC
Boys under-15: 1, G. Murphy. Togher AC: 2, T. McSweeney. Grange-Fermoy AC; 3, D. Driscoll. Bandon AC
