Tallaght Athletic Club

Catch up on all the results from the European Championships and the Frank Duffy 10 Mile Road Race on our website: https://tallaghtathletics.ie/weekly-report-16-august/

Well done to Elaine Decourcy on another win to wrap up the BHAA summer league. Gerry Woods was also first in the M65 category on the night. Conor Furlong was 6th overall and Patrick Sinnott 13th of 76 runners.

Rhasidat Adeleke arrives home | Echo.ie Rhasidat Adeleke arrived home quietly yesterday (Saturday) to applause to those in Dublin Airport who recognised her. The silver medalist in the European Athletics Championships 200m signed some autographs and was happy to pose for photos. She was accompanied by Cecil Johnson of Tallaght Athletic Cl...

While all eyes were on Birmingham this week, I'm a bit late posting the updates from the previous week! It was another notable one on the international and national levels. Read all about it here: https://tallaghtathletics.ie/weekly-report-9th-august/ and keep an eye out on Friday for updates from Birmingham and more.

We’re not all sprinters! Some great results in the Frank Duffy 10 Mile today. This was also the Dublin 10 Mile championships and Tallaght AC brought home 3 medals.
Tomás Fitzpatrick (53:47) 2nd overall Dublin Champs. 🥈
David O’Callaghan (58:05) 1st M45 Dublin Champs. 🥇
Alan McCabe (1:12:59) 2nd M65 Dublin Champs 🥈

Elaine de Courcy and Joe Pepper were both 4th in their Dublin champs category as was the M35 team.

Well done to all of our other runners who produced great runs and PBs. Including Orla Brennan (1:11:58), Grainne Myers (1:28:39) and Lorna Myers (1:41:38) not showing in the results below. And to our tail walkers who brought the race to a close.

The good times keep on rolling! Great work from Sean and Israel in the relay today.

🇮🇪 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆! 🔥

The Men’s 4x100m team are heading to the European final this evening too! 🙌☘️

⏱️ 39.13 SB for 4th in their heat and a place in the European final 👊

⚡ Bori Akinola – 10.75
⚡ Sean Aigboboh – 9.53
⚡ Marcus Lawler – 9.43
⚡ Israel Olatunde – 9.42

Both our men’s and women’s 4x100m teams will race for European honours tonight! 🇮🇪🔥

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The celebrations continue at the medal ceremony! What a fantastic championship so far for Tallaght AC and Ireland and more to come.