AAI National Masters T&F 2019 (18th August)

Maura Dervin & Eileen Kenny – All-Ireland 3,000m Champions in their master categories

Mullingar Masters in the medals

The AAI National Masters T&F took place on Sunday 18th August in a warm but very showery Tullamore. Some of the showers were so heavy at times that competition had to be temporarily halted on several occasions during the day but fortunately the group of five Mullingar masters escaped the worst of the rain and turned in sterling performances with each of them winning a medal.

Lucky to get into action before the rain came, Tom Walsh competed in the weight for distance event where he was delighted to finish third and win the All-Ireland bronze medal and put Mullingar on the medal board. Better known as cross country and road race runners, Maura Dervin and Eileen Kenny made their debuts on the track when they contested the 3,000m and though it was windy they were lucky to avoid the worst of the rain and were delighted to mark their debuts by winning their respective categories and win their first track All-Ireland medals. We finished with the 5,000m race walk where Colm Walsh and Sean McMullin were in brilliant form in this extremely technical event, with Colm finishing second in his category and Sean winning his category, each adding to their growing collections of track race walk medals. Five athletes and five medals meant it was a very fruitful day for the Club, so congratulations to Tom, Maura, Eileen, Colm and Sean on their All-Ireland successes.