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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Tipperary...Results of the Ballynonty 10 mile race - Sun 31st July 2011

There was a record entry of 100 runners for this low key 10 mile road race in Ballynonty, South Tipperary. Looking back the last few years, the numbers were........2008 - 73, 2009 - 66 and 2010 - 80.
Top 4 men...1st to 4th..Left to Right

The winner of the mens race was Danny Smith from the home club Ballynonty AC. Danny won in a time of 55:53, over 2 minutes ahead of the second placed man Shane Mullaney of Thurles Crokes AC who ran 58:00 flat. Conor O'Dwyer of Raheny Shamrock ran 58:36 to finish 3rd while Ross Alexander of Coolquill AC was 4th in 58:51.

Top 4 women...1st to 4th...Left to Right

In the womens race, Angela McCann of Clonmel AC won in a time of 61:34, over two and a half minutes clear of her nearest rival. Margaret Danaher of Templemore ran 64:00 to finish 2nd. Myshola Kirwin from Coventry ran 64:17 to finish 3rd while Aine Roche finished fourth in 69:22.

The full results can be seen HERE

Photos......there is a small gallery of finishing photos HERE
Also present at Ballynonty as a spectator was former Olympian Colin Kirkham, father of Myshola who finished 3rd. He was a member of the British marathon team at the Munich Olympics in 1972, along with Ron Hill and Don MacGregor. He finished 20th in 2:21:55. He also ran in the European Championships in 1991 (fourth in 2:16:22) and the Commonwealth Games in 1974. He is also a former winner of the Athens Marathon.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 10, 2011 at 4:36 PM

    Thought it was a good pretty flat course and very little car traffic on main road. My first time and thoroughly recomend it - hope to be back next year. Great hospitality as well. Tremendous effort by this smal community and I would love to see them an awful lot more support.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 10, 2011 at 4:37 PM

    Super race today ,good honest course with water in cups and bottles at 2,4,6,8 miles nice to see danny smith win his club race . the like of the food i havent seen at arace for a long time and all for ten € defenitily a race on the up .W ell done to all concerned

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