Fintan Walsh Hennessy wins Half-Marathon. Pat Hennessy (West Waterford AC) was the overall winner of the Eurofins Half-Marathon on the Waterford Greenway last Saturday. The event, which was promoted by West Waterford AC, had 540 finishers while Hennessy clocked 1:09.04 in winning the event. Paul Doran (United...
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Austalian Paralympic champion Sarah Walsh visits Carrickbeg
Austalian Paralympic champion Sarah Walsh visits Carrickbeg
Australian Paralympic amputee athlete Sarah Walsh, the reigning bronze medallist in the women’s long jump T64, enjoyed a recent visit ‘home’ to family in Carrickbeg, staying at her aunt Olivia Walsh’s and cousin Emer’s house, next door to her paternal grandmother Theresa Walsh in Coolnamuck, the homestead where...
Looking back at Waterford Olympians
Looking back at Waterford Olympians
Fintan Walsh Last week we looked at Waterford athletes who have competed in recent Olympics. As the build-up to the Tokyo Games continues, Fintan Walsh takes a look further back at Waterford sports persons who have competed at the Games in a number of different sports. Athletics has the most representatives with a...
Waterford’s Golden Cross-Country Era Recalled
Waterford’s Golden Cross-Country Era Recalled
Fintan Walsh In this article, we will take a look back at a golden era in Cross Country running in Waterford, when our athletes won five National Senior Inter County team titles in a row and six in all between 1975 and 1983 and from the same era supplied the individual winner on all nine occasions. The individual...
Coach in the Corner: Perri Williams, St Senans AC
Coach in the Corner: Perri Williams, St Senans AC
Perri Williams has been involved in athletics since her dad formed St Senans AC in 1977. Perri has competed nationally and internationally since her first All-Ireland championships at the age of 12 and although a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis and sjogrens disease in the late 1980’s forced a premature retirement,...
World Top Ten for Barr
World Top Ten for Barr
Waterford athlete just misses out on place in World Final. Fintan Walsh Reports Thomas Barr came up just short in his attempt to make the final of the 400m hurdles at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar last week.The Waterford athlete did however deliver two World Class performances. With four to qualify from...
BARR ON A UPWARD CURVE
BARR ON A UPWARD CURVE
Fintan Walsh Reports Thomas Barr continued his fine form in this season’s Diamond League meetings when he finished second in the 400m hurdles at the famous Bislet Games in Oslo last Thursday in a season’s best time of 49.11 Norway’s Karsten Warholm, the hot favourite and reigning World and European champion, thrilled...
BARR’S TRIPLE CROWN
BARR’S TRIPLE CROWN
Euro medallist takes third Supreme Sports Star prize European Championship bronze medallist Thomas Barr was named Park Hotel Waterford Supreme Sports Star for the third time in four years at last Saturday’s awards ceremony in Dungarvan. The Ferrybank AC athlete, who became the first Irish sprint medal winner at a...
Home the Hero!
Home the Hero!
Thomas Barr blown away by Dunmore homecoming On a sun-kissed Thursday evening at the Dunmore slip, they came in their droves to honour one of their own, the first Irishman to win a European Championship sprint medal. Flanked by a welcoming party of vessels, including the local RNLI Lifeboat, with flares deployed and...
WunderBarr!!!
WunderBarr!!!
Barr wins bronze in Berlin Thomas Barr’s ecstatic demeanour said it all as he crossed the line in Berlin last Thursday night. Sheer delight mixed with no doubt a smidgeon of relief enveloped Barr’s face with the realisation that he had won a medal at a major senior championship.Barr’s bronze medal in the 400m hurdles...
Raising the Barr!
Raising the Barr!
Thomas Barr arrived back in Dublin to a hero’s welcome on Monday afternoon following his bronze medal winning run in last Thursday’s European Championship 400 metres Hurdles Final in Berlin. The 26-year-old, who ran the second fastest time of his career to take his first senior international Championship...
Tom's Super 8
Tom's Super 8
With an eighth successive National 400 Metres Hurdles title in the bag, Ferrybank AC’s Thomas Barr is in justly upbeat mood ahead of the European Championships in Berlin, which get underway on Tuesday next. Barr, who looks in top shape ahead of the trip to Berlin, was in command from the off at Sunday’s Final at...
