Murray Lambden Memorial Open Walks Meeting 2020 (22nd Feb)

World Race Walk qualifying standards for Oisin Lane and Matthew Glennon

Organised by Manx Harriers AC, the Murray Lambden Memorial Open Walks Meeting on Saturday morning 22nd February at the National Sports Centre in Douglas, Isle of Man took place in very cold and very blustery conditions but the Mullingar race walkers were more than able for the challenging tough conditions in what has become a regular early year competition opportunity for them.

Oisin Lane won the 10k race walk in 44:26, a big PB, with Matthew Glennon in 2nd place in 45:09, which is a huge PB for him, but more importantly both times are inside the qualifying standard of 45:30 set by Athletics Ireland for the World Cup of Race Walking that takes place in Minsk, Belarus in May. Matthew’s time is also inside the AAI standard of 48 minutes for the European u/18 T&F that takes place in Rieti, Italy in July.

Continuing the successes for Mullingar, Andrew Glennon took 3rd place in the u/17 boys 5k race walk in 26:19 and Aisling Lane won the u/15 girls 3k race walk in 15:33. Congratulations to our race walkers, especially Oisin and Matthew for achieving the tough International standards.