The Munster B XC took place in Limerick today a good number of club athletes made the journey to the race course in Limerick. After a week of heavy rain we were lucky to have a nice day for this event and we had a great day’s competition with all athletes competing very well and with there efforts they ensured that each won a Munster medal. There was a re-run of the Girls U11A race today and Grainne Mulcahy finished in 8th place overall and also helped the Cork team to take Gold.

In the Munster B competition there were excellent results all round. Starting with the Girls U9 team where Orla O’Sullivan won an individual medal finishing in 7th place and helped by the rest of the team of Meabh O’Flynn, Amy O’Donoghue and Deirdre Brown they took team gold for the club. Rory Harrington was our only runner in the Boys U9 and he ran an excellent race to take 6th place and win an individual and county medal.

In the Girls U11 Ella Stack and Fionouala Murphy won individual medals for their 2nd and 6th place finishes with the rest of the team of Michelle O’Donovan, Cora O’Gallachoir and Saoirse McCarthy all running very well to take 3rd club team prize. We had 7 boys running in the Boys U11 race , Andrew O’Leary, Fionn Harrington, Jack Payne, Aodh O’Gallachoir, Mark Gash, Jack Calnan and Jack Lucey and they also had excellent runs to take 3rd club team prize.

In the Boys U17 race Thomas McCarthy finished in 5th place in his first Munster championship race. In the Boys U15 David Laffan finished in 19th place and was on the Cork team who took silver.

Carmel Crowley was a worthy winner of the Munster Women’s Masters title and she also helped Cork win the team Gold in O40 category. Tom Laffan had a good run in the men’s race finished 8th overall and 6th in the O40 category, he also helped Cork win Gold in the O40’s.
Well done to all who competed today.