The National u20 and u23 Track and Field Championships in held in a real mixed bag of weather yesterday, glorious sunshine mixed with heavy rain with thunder and lighting made for difficult conditions at times.
\nIn the u20(Junior) events Scott Gibson continued his great form in the 400m and stormed to Gold. Bobby Smith continued his fine form in the Javelin with a Silver medal. Promise Okafor won Bronze in the Triple Jump and placed 4th in the Long Jump recording a new personal best. Colin Kingston won Bronze in the Shot Putt with a new personal best and placed 5th in the Discus. Travis Coomey won Bronze in the Weight for Distance and also placed 9th in the Hammer. Joey Henchy unfortunately was disqualified for false start in the 100m.
\nin the 4x100m relay team of Scott Gibson, Joey Henchy, Matthew Draper and Daniel Hathaway were unfortunately disqualified for a bad batton changeover when they had realistic ambitions of being amongst the medals.
\nThe 4x400m team of JD O’Hea, Daniel Hathaway, Matthew Draper and James Dwyer finished outside the medals.
\nIn the u23 age there was a double for the McSweeney siblings as both Patrick and Laura won the Shot Putt, Patrick also won Silver in the Weight for Distance while Laura placed 4th in the Hammer.
\nPhil Healy won Silver in the 100m final which was held in a heavy downpour.<\/p>\n