Results Summary from National Masters T&F Championships 2020

Thirteen Titles for Cork Masters

Athletics Ireland National Masters T&F Championships 2020

Morton Stadium, Santry, Dublin

Saturday September 6th 2020

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The Irish National Masters T&F championships was another big success for Cork athletes, with thirteen titles, along with seven Silver and three Bronze medals coming back to Cork

There were seven medals for Leevale AC - Six Gold and a Silver. Next were St Finbarrs AC, with five medals - two Gold, a Silver and two Bronze, while Eagle AC garnered four Gold. Next were Midleton AC with two Gold, followed by Rising Sun AC with a Gold and a Silver, while Liscarroll AC (Silver), Riverstick-Kinsale AC (Silver) and Bandon AC (Bronze) collected one medal each.

Some of the most emphatic victories came in the final two races of the meet, the M50/55 5000m and the M60+ 5000m. The M50 race saw Eagle AC's Vivian Foley sit in behind the early leader, GCH's Gerry Carthy, with the two pulling away from the field. They were joined, after several laps, by Donore's Des Tremble. The trio continued pulling from the field, until, with two laps to go, Vivian made his decisive move and strode away, with Tremble also moving ahead of Carthy. Coming around the last bend, Foley too time to wave to family/supporters outside the fence, and eased up coming to the line, clearly unaware that he had come within a second or two of breaking the Irish M50 5000m record.

The final race was a 'tour de force' from Strive AC's (Ulster) Tommy Hughes, who ran 16:47.59, lapping the entire field, and break the 29 year old M60 5000m record of 17:02. ....To rub salt in the wounds of the other competitors, yesterday, Tommy broke the M60 10 Mile World record, and is running the Larne Half-Marathon next Saturday.

Cork Medal Table

Forename	Surname	Cat	Club	Event	Medal
Sinead	O'Regan	F40	Riverstick-Kinsale AC	100m	Silver
John	Corr	M45	Leevale AC	100m	Gold
Finbarr	Whelan	M50	Liscarroll AC	100m	Silver
Hugh	McSweeney	M70	Eagle AC	100m	Gold
Joan	Hough	F60	Midleton AC	1500m	Gold
Denis	Coughlan	M35	St Finbarrs AC	1500m	Silver
John	Hennessy	M50	Midleton AC	1500m	Gold
Don	Desmond	M70	Rising Sun AC	1500m	Silver
Garret	Flynn	M45	Leevale AC	200m	Gold
Jennifer	Montague	F35	Leevale AC	3000m	Gold
Marion	Lyons	F65	St Finbarrs AC	3000m	Gold
Eddie	Barry	M65	St Finbarrs AC	400m	Gold
Ken	Higgs	M70	Eagle AC	400m	Gold
Billy	Caball	M75	Rising Sun AC	400m	Silver
Vivian	Foley	M50	Eagle AC	5000m	Gold
Pat	Murphy	M55	St Finbarrs AC	5000m	Bronze
Eamonn	McEvoy	M65	St Finbarrs AC	5000m	Gold
Richard	Piotrowski	M70	Eagle AC	5000m	Gold
Annette	Quaid	F40	Leevale AC	800m	Gold
Michael	Murphy	M60	St Finbarrs AC	800m	Bronze
Frank	Stam	M60	Bandon AC	Discus	Bronze
Brian	Hayes	M35	Leevale AC	Javelin	Gold
Pat	Moore	M70	Leevale AC	Javelin	Gold

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Gilshinan and Hughes highlight golden day in Santry

Anne Gilshinan (Slaney Olympic) and Tommy Hughes (Strive Running Club) highlighted an action-packed day with respective W55 3,000m and M60 5,000m Irish records at the Irish Life Health National Masters Athletics Championships in Morton Stadium (September 6th).

Anne Gilshinan of Slaney Olympic smashed the Irish over-55 3000m record, clocking 10:36.26 to win gold in Santry as did Tommy Hughes cracking 17 minutes with 16:47.59.

A commanding run from Ciara Hickey (Bros Pearse) saw her take W40 3000m gold with a superb solo run of 10:05.17.

David Clarke (North Belfast Harriers) only took up running in his 50s and sprinted to M60 1500m gold in 4:41.05. Martin Cunningham (Tír Chonaill AC) celebrated jubilantly winning the M40 Men’s 1500m in 4:22.78.

Avril Dillon (Dundrum South Dublin AC) crossed the line to win the W40 Women’s 100m in 12.94 and mark herself as the fastest female sprinter on the day.

Jonathan Carleton (Ballymena & Antrim) was the fastest sprinter of the day in the M40 category winning the 100m in 11.51.

Interestingly Joe Gough (West Waterford), who normally runs middle distance, did the long jump and won the M65 category with 4.25m.

Elder statesmen Patrick Naughton (Nenagh Olympic) and Michael Hayes (St Mary’s Clare) won respective M85 and M90 shot put gold with 7.57m and 5.66m respectively. Mary Barrett (Loughrea) won another shot put title in the W60 with 9.02m.

John Menton (DSD) had an excellent throw to win the M50 discus with 43.66m – just shy of the Irish record of 45.60m by Garry Power in 2015.

John Dwyer (Templemore) won the M35 hammer with 48.36m while Lucy Moore (DSD) set an Irish W60 record in the hammer with 25.55m.