Westport Athletics Club was very well represented at the 76th Aviva Connacht Schools Athletics Championships held at Athlone IT on Thursday May 19th.

In the Minor Girls Sophie Letourmey came third in both the Long Jump (4.13m) and High Jump (1.40m).  In the Junior Girls High Jump Aoife Gannon took first place with a jump of 1.40m.  The Sacred Heart School Girls excelled in the Intermediate Girls with Ellen Moran winning the 1500m in a time of 5.01.2 almost 14 seconds ahead of her secon...
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Relay Runners!

Ireland's Largest Relay Race is a totally new charity event to hit the Irish running scene. It is taking place on July 16th 2010. The event is in aid of two fantastic charities, The Marie Keating Foundation and Cari. We hope to raise €50,000 per charity. The race starts in Naas Co. Kildare and stretches across a 160km distance which is broken up into 16 legs of 10km. 

We are looking for teams of 8 to run the race. The 8 runners will each run 2 legs of the race. 

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Well done to Cian McManamon who earned a silver medal at the recent AAI Games in Santry.

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