As we are only a couple of days away from Christmas and heading towards the year’s end it is always nice to look back. 2022 has proved to be an exceptionally successful year for Clonliffe Harriers. Despite the impact of Covid and then the fragmentation caused due to the unavailability of our Morton Stadium headquarters the clubs athletes and coaches managed to pull together to make this year one of the most successful in the long and storied history of the club.
On the team front the senior men captured 3 of the 4 National ‘majors’: the national track and field league, the national road relays and the national cross country. Throw into the mix the capturing of the National 5k and 10 Mile Championships, the Northern Ireland Road Relay Championship and the Dublin Cross Country it makes for a pretty impressive haul. Meanwhile our senior ladies continue to make great strides forward taking team medals in the national intermediate and novice cross country and the national 5 K Road championships.
Individually the clubs athletes captured three national senior titles. There were also three new club senior record set in 2022.
Clonliffe stats man Killian Lonergan has been busy updating the 2022 performance lists. They are attached below and make very interesting reading with almost 70 new entries with 34 of those now entering the top 10 lists. The most prolific athlete stats wise was the 2022 Clonliffe men’s track and field athlete of the year Cathal Doyle for top 10 entries – 800, 1500, mile and 5000. Killian has also prepared an up-to-date list of club records, not just for seniors but also our club records at U/23 and U/20. Again this is attached below.
The 2022 Roll of Honour:
International: Efrem Gidey, European Cross Country U/23 team bronze and European Track 10,000 6th place, Sean Cronin EYOF 1500 Bronze.
Senior National Track and Field champions: Eoin Sheridan (Discus), Jayme Rossiter (3000 SC), Cathal Doyle (1500)
National Road Champions: Efrem Gidey 5K, Ian Guiden 5 mile
National U/20 T & F Champion: Niall Carbery 3000 SC
National U/17 T & F Champion: Sean Cronin 1500
National Masters Champions: Edel Maguire W60 Indoor 200, high jump. Matt Slattery M70 200.
Team Champions:
Senior men National Road Relays (Mark McDonald, Sean O’Leary, Ian Guiden, Efrem Gidey)
National Track & Field League Champions (for the 7th successive time)
Senior men National Cross Country Champions (Efrem Gidey, Sean O’Leary, Jayme Rossiter, Sergiu Ciobanu, Ian Guiden, Stephen Cashin, Eoin Pierce, Jonny Whan). Winning for the 35th time!
National 5K Road Champions: Efrem Gidey, Sean O’Leary, Cathal McHale, Darren O’Dwyer
National 10 Mile Road Champions: Karl Nolan, Tom Sherlock, Ger Kirwan
Dublin Senior Cross Country champions: Efrem Gidey, Ian Guiden, Sean O’Leary, Sergiu Ciobanu
Northern Ireland Road Relay Champions: Sean O’Leary, Jonny Whan, Efrem Gidey, Ian Guiden
U/16 Girls 4 x 100 Champions: Rebecca Walsh, Ava Usovona, Sarah McDonnell, Ciara Sheehy
Boys U/17 national cross country champions: Sean Cronin, Tom Breslin, Matei Urschai, Lorcan Benjacar, Oran McGowan, Leon Brady.
Notable Team Performances by Senior women:
National Intermediate Cross Country Bronze: Laura Power, Jenny Johnston, Sarah Hawkshaw, Sarah Bateson
National Novice Cross Country Bronze: Laura Tuite, Clodagh Galvin, Alannah Cooley, Meghan O’Keeffe
National 5k Road Silver: Laura Tuite, Alannah Cooley, Meghan O’Keeffe
Northern Ireland Road 5k Silver: Emma Mitchell, Laura Tuite, Alannah Cooley, Sarah Hawkshaw
Northern Ireland Road Relay Bronze: Alannah Cooley, Meghan O’Keeffe, Emma Mitchell, Laura Tuite
Senior club record breakers :
Leo Morgan 60 indoor 6.74, Athlone
4 x 100 relay team of Pierce Friel, Keith Pike, Leo Morgan, Chris Sibanda 41.42, Tullamore
Grace Casey Javelin 42.75, Belfast
Clonliffe all time performances (by Killian):
Clonliffe Club Records, to include: senior, U/23 and Junior (by Killian):
Killian is currently preparing full Clonliffe National Cross Country Stats. This will be posted soon. Many thanks to Killian for pulling these stats together, it is a huge body of work. The cross country stats list will be posted soon.