Galway athletes strike gold at schools finals
GALWAY competitors returned home with a large haul of medals from the Irish Schools Athletics Track and Field championships held last Saturday in Tullamore.
Always one of the highlights of the athletics calendar, this year proved no different with many superb performances across all events.
GCH athletes were to the fore, with Irish sprinter Cillin Greene, competing for Presentation Athenry, having a great day, winning the Senior boys 200m and coming 2nd in the 100m,
Clubmate Seren O'Toole took silver in the 200m Junior girls, and Laura Ann Costello secured a well-deserved bronze in the Senior girls 200m for Yeats College, Galway. Lydia Doyle captured silver in the Inter Girls 80m hurdles for HRC Mountbellew.
There was a tremendous win in the Senior girls 3000m by Aisling Joyce of Yeats College Galway, as she clocked 10:00.23 for gold and a PB in the process.
Brendan Lynch took gold in the Inter boys Triple Jump for St Brigids College in Loughrea with a huge leap of 13.17m.
St Joseph’s College (The Bish) also won gold in the Inter Boys relay, with a superb anchor leg by Sean Kilmartin taking the team from 4th to victory in the home straight.
St Mary’s athletes also secured a number of medals with Kelvin Samson taking bronze in the Inter boys 400m Hurdles and the Triple Jump events. The city school also took silver in the Senior Boys 4 x 100m relay. clocking 44.13
There was also a silver medal for Chloe Casey of St Raphael’s Loughrea who threw 12.32m in the Junior girls shot putt.
Full athletics report in this week's Connacht Tribune