Here (at last!) are the Official Race results.
We had an unbelievable 617 finishers on St. Stephen's Day. To put this in context we had 69 finishers at the inaugural race in 2002 and 171, 254, 351 and 470 finishers in subsequent years. We're still very much growing!
Congratulations to each and every participant who picked up a hat and passed under the 800 year old finish line.
Both male and female Team prizes were claimed by our friends in Galway City Harriers, although the men's team result was hotly contested by Mayo AC.
The excel sheet attached at the bottom of this post contains a much cleaner and more complete result listing. It also has information on Top Finishers in each category, Prizewinners, Stalwarts etc. (scroll right down to the bottom)
To reduce the length of this article only the top 100 finishers are listed here. (see attached file for full listing).
Position Race No Name Category Club Time
1 7 Gary Thornton MS Galway City Harriers 30:02
2 10 Emmet Dunleavy MS Sligo AC 31:23
3 1 Paul McNamara MS Athenry AC 31:55
4 464 Colin Merritt MS Togher A.C. 33:07
5 6 John Byrne MS Mayo AC 33:08
6 432 Declan Fahey MS Tullamore Harriers 33:41
7 80 TJ McHugh MS Mayo AC 34:29
8 287 Ruaidhri Geraghty MS Galway City Harriers 34:38
9 444 Jason Broderick MS Craughwell AC 34:43
10 200 Timmie Glavey MS Mayo AC 35:12
11 198 Ian Egan M40 Galway City Harriers 35:24
12 330 Mark Davis MS Craughwell AC 35:26
13 54 Michael O'Connell M40 Sligo AC 35:28
14 15 Darragh O'Brien MS Loughrea AC 35:33
15 389 Sean Dowling MS Liffey Valley 35:44
16 365 Conor Moloney MS Galway City Harriers 35:52
17 20 Philip Glynn MS Hercules 36:02
18 508 Joe Dawson M40 Mayo AC 36:24
19 337 Johnny Lane MS Craughwell AC 36:41
20 579 Brian Bruton MS Athenry AC 36:48
21 8 James Kenny M50 Kilmurry Ibrickane 36:50
22 4 Tommy O'Dowd MS Liquid Motion Tri Club 37:13
23 521 Tommy Joe Whyte M45 Tuam AC 37:15
24 392 Donal O'Rourke MS Tuam AC 37:35
25 565 Ronald Naylor M50 Mayo AC 37:43
26 680 David Mullins M40 Tuam AC 37:57
27 12 Danny Carr M45 Galway City Harriers 38:06
28 440 Fergus McGirr MS Omagh Harriers 38:07
29 353 Mark Rafferty MS 38:29
30 368 Michael Cussen MS Galway Triathlon Club 38:32
31 578 Keith Whyte MS St John's AC 38:33
32 9 Gearoid Quinn M45 Galway City Harriers 38:39
33 260 Mairtin Grealish MS Predator Triathlon Club 38:45
34 510 Brian Duffy MS Castlegar AC 38:49
35 540 Hubie Conway MS 38:50
36 623 Patrick Sherry MS 38:50
37 496 Orla NiMhuircheartaigh FS Galway City Harriers 38:52
38 154 Martin O'Donnell M50 Clare River Harriers 38:53
39 450 David Kearins MS 39:03
40 340 Noel Burke MS 39:11
41 617 Kevin Darcy MS Kilmurry Ibrickane 39:20
42 93 Mark Breen MS Athenry AC 39:27
43 480 Michael Solon M40 Tulla 39:36
44 524 David Reilly MS Loughrea AC 39:37
45 5 Ann Carter FS Athenry AC 39:39
46 262 Stephen Donnelly MS 39:40
47 620 Damian Reilly MS 39:47
48 597 David Huane MS 39:51
49 60 Tom Hunt M60 Mayo AC 39:56
50 554 Matt Kennedy MS 39:59
51 581 Gerry Kenny M40 N.E. Runners 40:11
52 373 Colman Greene M40 Clare River Harriers 40:17
53 323 Tony Nevin MS Craughwell AC 40:20
54 538 Ciaran Burke MS 40:22
55 463 Thomas Porter M50 Galway City Harriers 40:26
56 483 Alan Archard MS 40:32
57 459 Patrick Coen M45 40:35
58 555 Paul Curran MS 3D Tri 40:41
59 193 Dermot Burke MS 40:42
60 583 Pat O'Dwyer M40 Galway City Harriers 40:47
61 79 Cathrine Conway FS Mayo AC 40:51
62 249 Daniel Kavanagh MS 40:53
63 675 Jim Daly M40 41:03
64 633 Gabriel Brennan MS 41:07
65 561 Keith Fallon MJ 41:16
66 542 John Hardiman M40 41:18
67 397 Brian Murphy M50 HP Runners 41:29
68 225 Alan Fitzgerald MS 41:31
69 275 Tara Whyte FS Clonliffe Harriers 41:35
70 409 Larry Kelly M40 Athenry AC 41:41
71 197 Brian Geraghty M65 Galway City Harriers 41:44
72 486 James Lally MJ 41:46
73 562 Michael O'Malley M45 Border Ramblers 41:49
74 564 Brendan Monaghan MS Tuam AC 41:52
75 110 Peter Payton M40 41:52
76 143 Conor Flanagan M40 41:56
77 224 Noel Fitzgerald MS 41:57
78 659 Val Murray MS 41:58
79 212 Brian Mooney MS 42:05
80 247 Thomas Nally MS 42:05
81 308 *** unknown man in black *** MS 42:12
82 347 Niall O'Connor MS 42:17
83 53 Keith Whyte MS 42:19
84 420 David Toohey M50 42:24
85 230 Derek Vaughan MS 42:26
86 388 John Connolly M40 Galway City Harriers 42:28
87 504 Dara McDonagh MS 42:31
88 235 Enda Collins MS 42:36
89 268 Colin Joyce MS 42:41
90 635 Tom Elwood MS 42:47
91 87 Barry Beirne MS Loughrea AC 42:54
92 343 Kevin Duffy MS Castlegar AC 43:02
93 384 Brian Heneghan MS 43:06
94 360 Niall Healy MS 43:12
95 476 Philip Darcy MS 43:17
96 153 Enda Loughnane MS Galway City Harriers 43:22
97 525 Philip Reilly MS Loughrea AC 43:25
98 489 Justin Niland MS Craughwell AC 43:26
99 449 Anselm McGowan MJ 43:26
100 239 Darren Murphy MS 43:29