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Kerryman Article 8/2/10The Munster Juvenile u9-u13 Indoor championships were
held in Nenagh once again last weekend with some excellent performances as
always from the Kerry athletes.On Saturday Iarla Courtney St Brendans ac broke
the Munster record in the u13 60 metre hurdles running a time of 10.11 beating
the existing record of clubmate Quinn Newsome McDonnell set in 2008.For good
measure Iarla followed this up on Sunday with a silver in the 60m sprint. Christine
Cooper of Spa Muckross ac competed in the u13 600m on Saturday and in fantastic
style took the silver medal .Her teammate Billy Courtney took part in the u13
shot on Sunday and threw a PB of 9.40m to also win a silver medal.Aoife
O’Carroll of Tralee harriers hurdled efficiently to a bronze medal in the u13
60m hurdles with her teammate Michael Linnane jumping to a bronze medal in the
high jump.Rory O’Connor also of Tralee harriers won two medals with silver in
the u12 long jump and bronze in the 60m.Gneeveguilla’s Brian Murphy also took
two medals with gold in the u11 60m and bronze in the 600m.David O’Connor also gneeveguilla threw well to finish third
in the u13 shot with his fellow club athletes Dara Moynihan,Christopher
O’Donoghue,Brian Murphy and Donal O’Sullivan taking silver in the u12 boys
relay. Dara Lowth of
St Brendans ac had two well deserved gold medals in the u11 long jump with a
huge leap of 3.94m and the u11 600m.Eoin McElligott also St Brendans ac won the
u12 high jump with a clearance of 1.26m and his team mate Adrian Nolan finished
third in the u12 shot with 7.40m. The Lios
Tuathaill ac sisters of Abigail and Sophie Lynch brought home two gold and two
bronze between them with Abigail finishing first in the u9 300m and third in
the 60m with Sophie doing the reverse winning gold in the u11 60m and third in
the 600m.New recruit Dillon Robinson took Lios Tuathaill’s other individual
medal on Sunday with a bronze in the u11 60m.As is becoming the normal
procedure now the girls u12 relay team dominated there event to take gold with
Aishling O’Mahoney,Sophie Lynch,Niamh Cullen,Ciara Donegan and Alex Dowling.The
boys u11 team also did well to take bronze with a team of Scott Winters,Dillon
Robinson,James Mulvihill,Mark Galvin and Charlie Johnson.Well done to all who
competed. Kerry had two representatives at the national senior
indoor championships in The Gneeveguilla 5km road series got off to a good
start on Saturday in the national park in Killarney with a large crowd taking
part on a crisp spring morning in February.Niall Collins North Cork won the
senior mens event and was followed home by John Barrett Gneeveguilla in second
and Kenneth Barry Mallow in third.In the womens section Trish O’Donnell Tralee
Harriers took victory with Mary O’Connor Riocht in second and Bridget Flynn
Castlemaine in third.The next round will be held next Saturday in the same
venue at 11am. Kerry Coaches workshops-Feb 21st and 27th-An
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