AAI Senior T&F 2018 (28th/29th July)

Senior Women 5,000m Walk

Mullingar athletes capture All-Ireland Senior T&F medals

Sarah Glennon is one of Ireland’s leading lights in juvenile race walking but on Saturday morning 28th July she made a big step when she competed at the AAI Senior T&F Championships in the 5,000m walk. Competing alongside her sister Rachel Glennon, Sarah put in a brilliant performance to finish second and win her first National Senior T&F medal. Rachel also performed very well and finished a very creditable fifth. In the afternoon, Cormac Dalton also made a step up in Senior competition when he competed in the 5,000m heats where he finished in 15:17.54, a new PB and only missing qualification for the final by a narrow margin. Saturday finished with Mullingar in the medals again thanks to Awa Fane, Vicky Harris, Eve Wallace and Maimouna Fane who successfully defended their 4x100m relay title and are already planning to make it three-in-a-row next year.

The Sunday afternoon 29th July programme opened with a novel mixed relay event and Mullingar was represented in the 4x100m u/12 mixed relay by Kyle Faherty, Katie Kilmurray, Jamie Wallace and Jayne Charles who finished fourth but only for a mishap with one of the baton changes, it might have a medal winning performance for this very talented quartet but they were still delighted to have competed as part of the Senior programme. Oisin Quinn competed well in the extremely competitive 800m heat where he finished strongly in 2:02.57 but didn’t advance to the final. The heats of the 1,500m were just as competitive where Padraig Moran finished well up in 4:02.13 but missed qualification for the final by just one place.