Run2Portugal Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th June in Riverview Shopping Centre Bandon.
Sponsored 1500Km treadmill event to cover the distance form Cork – Portugal.
Volunteers required to run on any day and volunteers required for bucket collection for the 19th.

This is an important fundraiser for the U20 Boys and Girls team for the upcoming trip to Portugal where they will compete in the European Club Championships and also a very important opportunity to promote the club and the various aspects of it, such as Fit4Life and the hugely successful road running part of the club.

If anyone is available to run or collect on the 19th and/or 20th, then if they can either email bandonathleticclub@gmail.com or text the club phone at 087-1135500 saying what you are available for and what time.

All assistance much appreciated.

On Fri night at 7pm in Dunmanway, the 2nd night of the West Cork Summer League and a great night assured.

Also tonight, but a bit further away in Scotland, Phil Healy will be part of the Irish Senior Women’s relay team, so wishing her and the team the best of luck there. More info on AAI site

On Sat, in Tullamore, the All-Ireland ‘B’ Track & Field Championships takes place and a number of club members are entered in that. Some of these athletes missed out on an opportunity to qualify for the ‘A’ championships due to injury and others missed out by very small margins in Munster, so wishing them better luck on Sat.

On Sun, the All-Ireland Track & Field Championships takes place also in Tullamore and a number of club members have qualified to contest that.
Among those in action on Sunday will be; Max Hallahan, Ruairi Harrington, Cian Kingston, Mathew Draper, Joey Henchy, Gavin Hicks, Promise Okafor, Colin Kingston, Bobby Smith, Leah Wood, Aisling Cassidy, Jennifer Adunure, Ciara McKeon, Carla Hicks, Erin Kingston, Sally Smith and Fiona Duggan.
Plenty of medal prospects there, so wishing them all the best of luck.

On Friday night at 7pm, the 2nd of the West Cork Summer Leagues will be held in Dunmanway with events for u10, u12, u14, u16.
There will be a sprint, a long distance race and 1 field event per age group.
Mixed relays (mixed clubs) will finish the night

More info on West Cork Site

At the Cork City International Sports in the CIT tomorrow night, there will be some Bandon AC members in action.
Competing in the Women’s 100m will be Phil Healy, Shane Howard will be in the Men’s Long Jump and Laura McSweeney will in the Women’s Shot.
Wishing Phil, Shane and Laura the best of luck.

At the National Junior and U23 Track & Field Championships today in CIT the weather at time played a part at times with some heavy showers and strong winds mixed in with beautiful sunshine.
In the sprints Phil Healy had an impressive double winning both the 100m and 200m in the U23’s.
Laura McSweeney won the Shot Put and also placed 4th in the Hammer in the Junior Women category.
In the U23 men’s, Patrick McSweeney won Silver in both the Shot Put and in the Weight for Distance as well as placing 4th in the Hammer. Shane Howard was 2nd in the U23 Long Jump as well as placing 7th in the 200m while Mark O’Sullivan was 6th in the 1500m,
In the Junior men’s there was an impressive treble in the throwing events as club members took Gold in 3 of the throwing events. Colin Kingston won the Discus, Bobby Smith won Gold in the Javlin, while David Jennings won Gold in the Weight for Distance, David also placed 9th in the Hammmer and 6th in the Discus.
Well done to all
(See results page for more details)

Cork County Senior Track & Field Championships was held last Thursday in CIT and a number of club members were in action.
Bandon athletes had great success in the throws events winning a total of 4 golds, 3 silvers and 1 bronze in throws alone. Patrick McSweeney won Gold in Hammer and Shot and Silver in Weight for Distance. Bobby Smith won Gold in the Javelin. Laura McSweeeny won Gold in the Hammer and Silver in both Discus and Shot. Fiona Duggan won Bronze in the Discus.
On the track the only medals won were Promise Okafor who won Silver in the 200m and Great Okafor who won Silver in the 100m
Well done to the athletes involved.

Well done to club member James French (Bandon Grammar School) who has been selected on the Irish Schools U17 team for the upcoming Schools International in Cardiff.
James will be competing in the Shot Put.

Full details on AAI site

The program has been finalised for the Open Sports on 24th Aug which the club are holding to celebrate 50th years since the formation of the club.
This is a very comprehensive program with a large number of events for Juvenile, Junior and Senior athletes, as well as cash prizes for Junior and Senior events.
In tribute to athletics events in the past, there will be a number of cycle races also held as part of the event and I’m sure this will be the first time a number of people will have seen track cycling on grass.

The running order of events will be available in a few weeks as will more details of the logistics of the day itself.

So make a date….24th August in the Bandon Town Park with a 12 noon start for Juveniles and a 2pm start for Junior and Seniors

Program available here

Up and coming Track & Field events include the Cork County Senior T&F Championships in CIT on Thursday with a 6.30 start.
Order of events is on Cork Athletics site

All-Ireland Juvenile relays are on Sat in Tullamore and a number of team have qualified to compete. Timetable is on AAI site

On Sun in the CIT is the All-Ireland Junior and U23 T&F Championships.
Timeable is on AAI site.
For anyone who may not have competed in National Junior Championships previously, please note there will probably be a call room in operation so please make sure you listen to any announcements for your event as failure to present yourself to the call room in time may result in you being excluded from your event. You could be called to the call room 60mins before your event, so please make sure you are at the CIT in plenty time.

Best of luck to all the athletes involved in these competitions.