Wednesday 25 November 2020
Healy scorched to another track win over 200m while there was a 17-year-old winner in the pole-vault.
The 40-year-old race walker has called time on his career today.
A visibly upset but defiant Ciara Mageean anticipates great things for herself.
With steely determination and composure, Ciara Mageean made an impressive Olympic debut in Rio.
The Meath native is set to experience the Games for the first time in Brazil.
The sponsors have decided to pull the plug early.
There were two Irish winners in today’s heats and plenty to look forward to tomorrow.
They’re under way in Zurich.
The fastest man on the planet insists that fans have no reason to doubt him.
The Wicklow runner will take an “extended break” while she recovers from a recent chest infection.
The world’s fastest man says he intends to qualify for the 2013 World Championships at next year’s Jamaican trials.
As world records were being smashed, Catherine O’Neill and Cathal Miller had to be content with a place outside the medals.
The Bray woman’s heroics will be difficult to follow, but David Rudisha and Usain Bolt are fitting closers to a sensational day.
The 31-year-old was 16 seconds outside the time needed to make Saturday’s final at the Olympic Stadium this morning.
South African “blade runner” Oscar Pistorius is through to the semi-finals of the men’s 400m, but a hamstring injury has ended LaShawn Merrit’s title defence.
The nine-time Olympic gold medallist won’t be going to the track events. “It’s a personal thing.”
The Letterkenny AC athlete qualified after he was one of the fastest losers with a time of 1.47.77.
The 400m athlete and former UCD Medicine student is hoping to make amends for her disappointing performance in 2008.
Mark English and Sarah Lavin will hope to make it through to the final of their respective events on Saturday evening.
This weekend is the last chance saloon for those Irish athletes still hoping to achieve the Olympic “A” Standard.
Stephanie Reilly also finished sixth in the women’s 3000m steeplechase semi-finals to qualify for the final.
High jump hopeful Deirdre Ryan is next under the spotlight as we continue our athlete-by-athlete guide to Ireland’s Olympic squad.
Meanwhile, Double Para-Olympian champion Jason Smyth finished seventh in his semi-final this evening.
Derry’s Jason Smyth got his European Championships off to a flying start, securing automatic qualification for the 100m semi-finals.
No female athletes from the country have secured qualification for London 2012 at present.
Meanwhile, Irish Record Holder Ailis McSweeney ran 12.28 in the 100m.
Now that she’s injury-free, Deirdre Ryan is steeling herself for a rollercoaster ride to London’s Olympic Stadium.
With a little over three months to go to the London games, we look at all the Irish qualifiers so far and who could still make the grade.
We sat down with steeplechase hopeful Fionnuala Britton to talk gold medals, Olympic dreams and her plans between now and July.
The American-born pole vaulter hit the Olympic A standard in California on Saturday.
Athletics Ireland will be sending just three athletes to compete in the World Indoor Championships in Turkey on 9 March.
Johnson warned today that Bolt could end up spreading himself too thinly if he tries to win four Olympic golds next summer.
Here’s everything you need to know about day six at the IAAF World Championships.
Here’s everything you need to know about day two at the IAAF World Championships.
It wasn’t the final which everyone tuned in to see, but it certainly got people talking.
Cork athlete Robert Heffernan is also among the 17 athletes in the squad.
Track and field events yesterday were another showcase for Irish talent, with our medal tally now standing at 44.
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