Tonight`s club 800 Championship was incorporated into tonight`s Grand Prix Race for the Richie Barr Cup. Full report soon from Liam Hennessy, however, in the meantime:
Another fantastic turnout on another great Summer`s night in Santry, saw some 5 races in all over the two lapper. It must be commented that the number of young Clonliffe athletes proudly wearing their club colours was a sight to warm the heart.
Race1 naturally produced the 2018 club champion as the eager young guns blasted off from the start, a 61 second opening lap saw Adam O`Brien run negative splits to duck under the two minute mark recording a time of 1.59.35 (TBC), followed by Sean O`Leary and the “Mauritian Express” Greg Hossenny , neither of these two seemed particularly distressed at not taking the win (see photo below!). The women`s champion was young Alannah Cooley in 2.23.21 from race 2 and from race 3, the even younger Aoife Hession 2nd and Ella Brown 3rd.
The Grand Prix winner was presented with the Cup by sponsor Richie Barr to a great cheer from the assembled masses and of course Kevin Sheehy being the shy retiring type he is milked the applause for all it was worth!
Full result and report soon.
