Bandon Athletic Club would like to thank all volunteers who helped in anyway make the recent County XC hosted by the club a success. Well done to all athletes competing. The club had over 100 athletes taking part on the day.

Results of Day two County XC, Ratharoon Bandon Cork 8th October 2023

GU9

Orla NíConchuir 6th

Freya Nyhan 14th

Catherine Collins 29th

Aisling McCarthy 47th

Grace O’Flynn 55th

BU9

David Fenton 5th

Joseph O’Sullivan 8th

Flint Lucitt 19th

Liam Hartnett 24th

Team 1st

GU11

Laoise NiConchuir 2nd

Eabha Walsh 3rd

Blaithin O’Flynn 12th

Kate Casey 20th

Team

BU11

Cormac Murphy 3rd

Cathal Minihane 25th

Sonny Lucitt 28th

Tom Murphy 35th

Team 3rd

Team 2nd

Team 3rd

BU17

Daniel Dollard 4th

GU19

Ella Collins 2nd

Lucy O’Flynn 3rd

Novice Men

Naoise O’Flaitheartaigh 1st

Gavin Kenny 2nd

Ruairi Harrington 17th

Kevin Wilmot 19th

Team 3rd

Congrats to all Bandon AC Athletes who competed across the various National Championships in July. Ruby Cummins & Eoin O’Callaghan finished 1st in their respective combined events. Eoin also claimed double gold in the individual Nationals in the high jump & discus and also secured a bronze in the pole vault. Ruby placed 3rd in the 80mh at the Nationals her sister Leila Cummins put in a good performance in the U14 hammer to claim gold. Aoife Callan continued her success of the season to claim bronze in the U17 javelin and week after finishing 3rd at the SIAB schools international in Scotland, Aoife also placed 4th in both the long jump and triple jump. Sisters Olive & Lucy O’Flynn placed 2nd and 3rd in their respective long distance races. Aoife Tuthill placed 3rd in the U18 3k walk. At the Senior Championships Shane Howard placed 3rd in the long jump with consistent jumps, showing promise for the 2024 season after coming back from injury. Phil Healy placed 4th in the final of the 400m and Fiona Everard placed 12th in a packed 5000m race. Also competing on the day was Lauren McCourt & Gavin Kenny who both just missed out of the automatic qualifying for their respective 400m & 1500m. The U12 pair of Joel Cummins & Liam Verling placed 1st at the National Children’s Games in the turbo javelin. Aadora Nneameka continued her running success to claim another national sprints title in the U13 100m. Dylan French finished 4th in the U13 Shot Put just 20cm behind the medals which is a good achievement for just picking up the shot put this season. At the national JNR / U23 Lauren McCourt took the U23 400m title. Gavin Kenny finished 6th in the U23 1500m. Fiona Everard had a good run in the AAI games to finish 5th in the SNR 5000m.

Once again the club will be hosting the Catherine Duggan Open Sports.

Venue will again be the Town Park in Bandon on the 20th Aug.

Program for adults starts at 10am with juveniles starting at 12noon.

Catherine Duggan Sports Junior&Senior OrderOfEvents 2023

Catherine Duggan Sports Juvenile Order Of Events 2023

Cork County Juvenile T&F 2023 Day Three Notes (1)

Please ready carefully for anyone who is competing on day 3 of the county Championships this coming Sunday may 21st. It’s upmost important that you check in on time for your events!