At today’s British and Irish Masters International cross country held at the sport Ireland campus in Abbottstown Sergiu Ciobanu and Karl Nolan both proudly wore the Irish green vest competing in the M40 team race. Sergiu finished 29th overall (M35 to M64), 9th M40 and 4th scorer on the silver winning team. Karl was 42nd overall. In the 4.5k open M65 race Diarmuid Doyle was 7th.
Also today Efrem Gidey finished in 7th (19.46) in the Sparkassen Cross Country, 7.5k, Pforzheim, Germany.
There are also a number of Clonliffe athletes competing in the Joe Duffy half marathon in Clontarf, first Clonliffe home was Shane Keville (1:25.49) followed in by Cian Raghallaigh (1:26.06), Kevin Gormley (1:29.13), David Comiskey (1:39.10), Barry McKinney (1:57.41), Sarah Stevenson (2: 03.52) and Brendan Pollard (2:07.08).
On the Wicklow mountains Oren Finegan was 3rd in the “Run the Line” 25km trail race, also on Saturday.