Presentation of Athletics Leinster Star Awards for 2019 (15th Feb)
Catriona Duffy (with the Mick Byrne Cup), Vicky Harris, Charles Okafor, Shauna Leydon, Oisin Lane, Margaret Daly (with the Morrissey Cup)
Mullingar athletes honoured by Athletics Leinster
Vicky Harris, Shauna Leydon, Charles Okafor and Oisin Lane were presented with their Athletics Leinster Star Awards for 2019 at a Gala Dinner in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Athlone on Saturday evening 15th February. They earned their awards based on their performances in Leinster Championships in 2019.
Vicky won gold in the 100m and 200m outdoors to earn the Senior Award; this is the seventh time in eight years that Vicky has won this award, a testament to her consistency. Shauna won gold in the indoor triple jump, silver in the outdoor triple jump, and bronze in the indoor hurdles and outdoor shot putt to earn the Female Juvenile Award. In his first competing with Mullingar Harriers, Charles had a clean sweep of the short sprint titles by winning 60m and 200m indoors and 100m and 200m outdoors and made his International debut at the European Youth Olympics in Baku, Azerbaijan to earn the Male Juvenile Award. Oisin won both indoor and outdoor walks in new Championship Records, improved his personal best for 10k at the European Junior Cup (placing third youth overall), and finished a fantastic fourth place in the 10k race walk at the European Youth Olympics to earn the Race Walk Award.
Mullingar Harriers was also honoured. After a very successful cross country season where Mullingar won Club team medals in fourteen of the eighteen underage races in Leinster cross country, there’s no surprise that Mullingar retained the Morrissey Cup for Best Juvenile Club in Cross Country. Mullingar has won this trophy every year since it was first presented in 2001. Reflecting the very big haul of 32 medals won by Mullingar athletes at the Leinster Juvenile Indoors in 2019, including 5 Championship Best Performances, Mullingar won the Mick Byrne Cup for Leinster Juvenile Individual Indoor Championships.
Congratulations to Vicky, Shauna, Charles and Oisin, and to all the juvenile cross country and track and field athletes that contributed towards helping Mullingar Harriers win the Morrissey Cup and the Mick Byrne Cup.
