Duo training in Romania

TWO young City of Derry stars are currently at a European Youth Olympics training camp in Romania with a select 24 strong group of 15/16 year olds from clubs all over Ireland.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Jun 2010, 16:30 BST
Updated 24th Jun 2010, 16:30 BST

The Spartans, Triple/Long Jumper Claire Docherty and Hurdler/Sprinter Ryan McParland joined three Donegal athletes, selected to travel as part of the Olympic Council of Ireland's preparations for participation in next year's European Youth Olympics Festival in Turkey.

Congratulations to all of them and no doubt the experience will add to their further development in the sport.

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While Pauric McKinney won last Friday night's Lifford 5K, his 15 minutes 30 seconds seeing him home ahead of Aaron Doherty's 15 minutes 55 seconds with Ivan Toner third on 16 minutes 3 seconds.

Buncrana 5K winner Joe McAllister clocked 67 minutes 46 seconds to take last Wednesday's Lisburn Half Marathon honours after a battle with Omagh's Stephen Duncan who made the early running, on 67 minutes 51 seconds with North Belfast's Connor Magill a distant third on 72 minutes 51 seconds.

Tullamore Harrier Pauline Curley posted 77 minutes even for a comfortable women's race victory as a total of 1,222 runners finished.

Duncan turned out again last Saturday to win the Dromore, Co Tyrone 10K with an impressive 31 minutes 27seconds, well ahead of Foyle Valley's Pius McIntyre on 36 minutes 13 seconds and Julie Butler of Omagh clocked 39 minutes 4 seconds to claim the women's honours. Another big turnout here of 622 finishers.

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Meanwhile coming up this Friday night is the Aghyaran 5K with a 7.30pm start, race five of the Furey Insurances 5k Series will take local road runners to Carndonagh next Wednesday evening, June 30th and the Rathmullan 5K is on Friday, July 2.

There were many excellent performances from young local athletes at the weekends Provincial Championships in Antrim with the stand outs, a triple golden treble from Mark McGarvey, Andrew Bolster and Anna Barr plus double gold from Ciara Armstrong and Jack McCloskey as a host ofchampionship medals and All Ireland qualifications were achieved.

Mark McGarvey at U17 level won his 100m, 100m Hurdles and Long Jump, Anna Barr in the same age band won the 200m, 300m and Triple Jump and at U16 Andrew Bolster was successful in the 200m, 100 Hurdles and 250 Hurdles. Ciara Armstrong and Jack McCloskey

at U15 level each won their respective 100m/200m golds.

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