by Richard Hawkins
The East Cork Uneven Age Championships were held on Bank Holiday Monday 27th October on the familiar course set up on the lands of the Buckley family in Ballinahina. Following a successful County Novice Championships our adult squads had more honours in their sights. Timmy Hawkins led from gun to tape in the Men’s race to claim the title and lead the team to Gold. Tadhg Crowley claimed individual bronze with Joseph Daly and Sean Gorman completing the scoring. We had impressive squad depth with Paul Ryan, Matthew Browne, James O’Neill and David O’Riordan all doing a job for the club. In the women’s race, we didn’t have the numbers on the day in the team competition, however we had two great individual performances with Siobhan Walsh storming through in the closing stages to take the bronze medal and Isobel O’Meara who is normally a sprint specialist showing the results of a lot of hard work this year with an impressive 7th place overall. Congratulations to both squads.
Our juveniles also performed with distinction with some excellent individual performances. Edie Mae Browne won individual gold while leading the U11 girls’ team to victory. The U13 girls team won team silver in a close battle with Midleton. Allie Philips had a breakthrough performance to claim victory in the U15 girls’ race, the team also winning gold. Faye O’Riordan won individual bronze U19. In the boys’ races, Oisin Allen won silver in the boys’ U9 race. The boys U13 team placed 2nd and Cian Ryan won individual silver U17. Unfortunately, we don’t have the names of all athletes who competed to hand, but every athlete and their efforts are greatly appreciated and made the day so successful. Thanks to coaches and parents who helped with course set-up, parking and also competed, it is greatly appreciated.
