Last weekend saw several club athletes take on the scenic Antrim Coast Half-Marathon with the attached report on Galway Bay FM Sports providing details. All recorded times by club athletes were excellent.
In brief, GCH finishers included:
Men
Ger Cuddy 72:36
Arkadiusz Skupin 78:45
Louis Coyne 79.02
Tony O’Connor 80:26
Ladies
Neasa De Burca 84:08
Yehualaw smashes world half marathon record in Larne
Yalemzerf Yehualaw ran Northern Ireland’s Antrim Coast Half Marathon in 63:43 this weekend, smashing the women’s half-marathon record. The 22-year-old slashed 19 seconds off the previous time set by Ruth Chepngetich at the N Kolay Istanbul Half Marathon in April this year.
EGM being held to obtain members approval to change from current Club structure to new Company limited by Guarantee
To attend the GCH Extra Ordinary General Meeting on Wednesday 1st September at 8pm eligible members and parents need register their intention to attend on Eventbrite before 4pm on the day of the meeting.
This is to facilitate the Committee ensuring that all attendees are registered members/parents for 2021 and are eligible to vote at the meeting.
Zoom link will be send to eligible members via Eventbrite on Wednesday after the 4pm deadline has passed. Details of voting rights have been circulated to members.
New Block of Strength & Conditioning Sessions with David Fitzpatrick – Monday 30th of August to Monday the 27th of September.
The block is 5 weeks long and will consist of only Monday sessions. However, it is not necessary to do all 5 weeks. There are are ticket sales for either individual days or for the entire block.
Each session will be approximately 45 minutes in length. Monday’s session will be starting at 6.45pm exactly.
These sessions are open to anyone, not just runners, but the sessions will be tailored towards getting stronger, more robust for running and exercising and general injury prevention. If you own or have access to equipment then great bring it along. If not do not worry just bring with you anything at all you can that can add an extra challenge to the workout. Examples of this could be a bag pack full of clothes or books or a mixture, a bag of potatoes etc.
Massive congratulations to Jason Smyth on his Gold medal winning performance over 100m in this morning’s Paralympics session in Tokyo. Jason has won everything that can be won including the World Record but today was a particularly impressive performance with a battle right to the line against an in-form Algerian sprinter, Athrami, who set a new African record of 10.54s in second (see photo-finish attached). Both men are pictured in a sporting embrace below.
Incredibly, this was Jason’s 6th gold at the Paralympics in a glittering career. Following Tyrone’s win yesterday, it’s been a terrific weekend for Ulster! Also in action this morning, Kerryman Jordan Lee had done great to qualify for Tokyo in the High Jump and cleared a good opening height before bowing out in a high-quality final.Well done to both Jason & Jordan on bringing such pride to their country.
It’s a brilliant 8th place for Ireland in a truly world-class 4x400m Mixed Relay final at the Tokyo Olympics.
It was another terrific 1st leg by Cillín; the team & squad can be immensely proud of themselves & the joy they have given us this past week. It’s a young squad with many more great experiences like this ahead of them.
Congrats also to the Polish team on their superb win in the 9-team contest.
Thank you so much Cillín & Rob for these golden memories that we will treasure forever: GCH & Galway are so proud of you!! In this unusual year you gave your club, County & province an extra-appreciated lift!!
You have etched your names in GCH history alongside the names of JJ Daly (1904) and Paul Donovan (1992) in representing club & country at the highest level in the sport.
We look forward to giving you the hero’s welcome you & your wonderful team richly deserve!
Several Galway City Harriers juveniles & juniors were in action in Santry at the AAI Games over the weekend.
Eimear Rowe recorded a very fine time of 57.43s in the 400m, as did Ella O’Connor, just over the 1 minute mark.
Nicole Quirke improved her Connacht Juniors time in the 200m with 26.52s.
Some under 20s also competed as follows:
under 20 Results:
400m Eimear Rowe 57.43
400m Ella O’connor 1.02.4
400m Robert McDonnell 47.13
400mh Seren O’Toole 1.04.49
200m Nicole Quirke. 26.52s
Aaron Brennan & Laura Nally also featured prominently from among the over 20s – see Senior Club post for more details.
And on the continent, there was the not-so-insignificant matter of Cillín Greene knocking a decent chunk off his 400m PB and club record with a sensational 46.18s. Huge congrats to Cillín!!
Closer to home in Tuam, GCH had a late entrant in the National Race-walking Championsips in Caoimhe Phelan who recorded a fine time of 6:11 for the 1km race. This sets a new outdoor club record for the event. Under 15 Caitlin Podmore holds the clubs Indoor record for the same event.Congrats to Caoimhe’s former club on their very successful hosting of this big event.If other members of the club wish to try racewalking going forward they should advise their coach and some coaching could be arranged if numbers sufficient.
Next weekend we have the National U20 and U23 Championship to look forward to. Best of luck to all competing.
The timetable is now available for the 2021 Irish Life Health National Junior and U23 Track and Field Championships which take place on June 19th & 20th in Morton Stadium.
Quite a good number from the juvenile club are taking part and we wish them & all GCH, Galway & Connacht athletes well!
Athletics Ireland have released a very important update today regarding Juvenile competitions for the Summer. There have been some major changes made, of which the key ones are:
There will be NO RELAYS at Nationals from under 9 to under 19
Qualification for Nationals u12 to 19s will be restricted to TOP 3 only via Connachts for each event.
There will be NO OPEN ENTRY for older ages at Nationals as before – with an exception for athletes on international duty when Connachts are being held.This places a much greater importance on attendance & performance at the Connacht championships.
There will be no All-Ireland ‘B’ Championships at end of August. This has been a nice extra opportunity for non-qualifiers to nationals but it will not happen this year.
See amended Calendar of Events (just the final date gone from the previous version) and full press release attached.Next competition is County Championship for Under 9s/10s/11s in Dangan on June 19th.
A reminder for intended participants that registration is now open for the National Juniors in Santry on June 19th and 20th.
All other juveniles are next up on Saturday July 3rd in Dangan for the u12-19 County Championships.
County Relays may be held in advance of this date…TBC.
Timetable for Junior/Senior/Master Connacht Championships below which will take place on Monday 7th June 2021 at the Regional Sports Centre, Dangan, Galway.
Note that there are no spectators allowed at the event. Juvenile athletes may be accompanied by 1 adult if required. All attendees at the event will be required to fill in the Covid questionnaire, preferably in advance, and present it at check-in to gain entry. Paper copies will be available for anyone who cannot print their own.
You will not be permitted to enter the track before the designated time of your event. You will be asked to leave the venue without delay upon completing your event . Please see map below for entry.
The map shows a red line and you must be outside of that line.
Public health measures must be followed including social distancing and hand sanitisation. Note that World Athletics rules on footwear will be implemented at this Championship.
Senior and Masters Athletes will compete together, there are 3 age group categories for Master; O35-50, O50, 65+Junior and Senior may be amalgamated depending on numbers attending.
Portaloos will be available on site, there is no access to the pavilion. There are no refreshments available at the venue.
The 2021 Irish Life Health National Senior Track and Field Championships will take place over three days the Friday evening 25th , Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of June. Provisional timetable and entry will be available next week.
Please take note of the current travel guidelines in place if you will be returning from overseas in the lead up to the championships.
All Athletes who have been overseas in the 14-days prior to the Event must quarantine for 14 days unless a negative PCR test result is returned no less than 5 days after arrival into Ireland. This applies to athletes returning to Ireland from overseas via Northern Ireland.
Travel to Ireland from specific designated States is subject to mandatory hotel quarantine. For up-to-date information on designated states please click here.
You can join or renew your membership here: https://membership.athleticsireland.ie/
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