Well done to Frank Stam and Priscilla O’Sullivan who were competing in the All-Ireland Masters Track & Field Championships recently in Tullamore.
Frank won Silver medal in the Discus, Bronze medal in the shot putt and also placed 6th in the Weight for distance.
Priscilla won Gold in the Hammer, Silver in both the Discus and Shot Putt plus a Bronze in the Javelin.
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Men’s Shot Put Medal presentation
Well done to the Bandon men’s team who competed very well today in the final of the national league. Contesting the Divison One final the team members put in some impressive performances, Shane Howard won the pole vault, finished 2nd in the triple jump and 3rd in the 110m hurdles. David Cussen who was guesting won both the High Jump and Long Jump.
Provisional results have them finishing in 5th place out of the 10 teams who qualified for the final.
Best of luck to the Bandon men’s team who are on action in the final of Division 1 of thep National League on Sunday.
This is the 2nd year in a row that they have qualified for the final so hoping the experience from last year will stand to them this year.
Well done to Robert Heffernan on his fantastic gold in the 50km walk at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow earlier today.
Anyone who has followed his career will know Rob has done the hard miles and fully deserves this moment.
Moira Barrett completed a very busy weekend at the National Development Games in Tullamore today. She took part in the u14 800m and the High Jump and she won Gold in both events. Ellie ODonovan was the only other Bandon athlete in action And she won Silver in the u12 60m sprint.
Well done to Moira and Ellie on these performances.
Well done to both Moira Barrett and Ciara Mc Keon were in action Sat in Tullamore at the All-Ireland Combined Events Championships. Competing in the U14 age group both girls put in good performance in the hurdles, high jump, long jump, shot and 800m for a busy day.
When all the points were totaled up at the end of the day Moira finished in 4th place with Ciara in 8th place.
Shane Howard was in action on Sat and Sun in the Junior Men’s Heptathlon which consists of 100m,Long Jump, Shot, High Jump, 400m, 110H, Discus, Pole Vault, Javelin and a 1500m to finish it.
At the end of a tough 2 days Shane finished in second place earning a deserved Silver medal.
Best of luck to any club members heading to Tullamore over the weekend for the National Combined Events of the National Development Games.
The final Cork Graded League/County Championship was held this week, I will have a summary of Bandon results from the Championship events in a couple of days.
Normally don’t mention any races without AAI permit, but will make an exception this once..
A fun and novel race will be held in Bandon as part of the Rebel Week, this looks like an exciting event and in a good cause.
For more info check out RebelWeek web site
Thc club is taking a break from training until Mon 26th Aug unless by prior arrangement with a coach.
Cross Country training may resume before 26th.
Well done to Joey Henchy who was part of the Irish U18 team which took part in the annual Celtic Track & Field International in Wales at the weekend.
Joey was part of the 4*100m relay team who finished 3rd.
He also took part in an invitational 100m on the day where he placed 4th.
