by Peter Delmer On July 14 th 1912 – one hundred years ago – the name of Kennedy Kane McArthur was added to Olympic history when he won the Olympic Marathon, wearing the colours of South Africa, in Stockholm, Sweden. McArthur was a native of Dervock, County Antrim and had emigrated to South Africa...

By Peter Delmer The fifth annual Boston Scientific 5k took place on Wednesday evening in Maree with a record field of 284 (mostly) smiling finishers. The organisers would like to thank all the people who took part in the race and who helped out in a myriad of ways. All proceeds will go to the Boston...

Paul Hession warmed up for the Olympics with a good time of 20.54 to finish second in the 200m at a meeting in Switzerland on 17th July. See result below with a link to other events at the same meeting. Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern SUI 200m Pre-Program, Men - B-Final Wind: +0,4 1. 22 Talbot Daniel...

Laught, Moylough, Ballinasloe, Co Galway Laught Sports Commemoration 1902 to 1962. Friday 3rd August 2012. Laught Sports was one of Ireland’s famous Sports Grounds with Athletes and Cyclists competing there from the four corners of Ireland, for a national title. Laught held its first sports in 1902...

Setanta Sports are showing three 1 hour documentaries highlighting some of Irelands Olympic talent ahead of the games, including our very own Paul Hession. These will be shown on July 19th,20th and 21st at 9pm. It’s not the taking part is a documentary series of three one hour films, which follows...

Three Athenry AC men featured on both evenings of the Galway Track and Field championships recently at Dangan. All three, Iain Shaw, Peadar Nugent, and Pearse Hunter, entered into the spirit of the championships by competing in a variety of events. Iain by the way is now best known as a field event...

The 8th Headford 8KM went off like a dream on Saturday evening last. A record crowd over a dry course on a slightly blustery evening. A conspicious turnout from the Athenry club with a lot of the usual suspects down the field to add spice. It was only my third time running the race: for the last...

Bilboa 10K Clare 10K Pallasgreen 5M Dundrum 10KM to follow

http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/other/2012/0630/1224319115147.html Ian O’Riordan, in Helsinki Athletics: A rainy night in Helsinki, not ideal conditions for championship performances, but no excuses from Paul Hession after his 200 metres final at European Championships. It wasn’t just the track...

See http://www.athenryac.com/galway-juniorseniormaster-tf-results

*UPDATED* Paul Hession through to the final of the 200m as one of the fastest finishers - Good luck Paul. See http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/hession-progresses-colvert-falls-foul-of-infringement-557304.html Hession progresses, Colvert falls foul of infringement Friday, June 29, 2012...

Congratulations and well done to the 20 Juvenile athletes that travelled to Cork last Saturday for the AAI All Irelands. The under 9 boys relay team got bronze: Calum Healey, Mikey Kelly, Feargus Deeley, Adam Molloy and Darragh Gilhooley. The under 11 boys 60m sprint got bronze: Ruairi Collins and...

by Dermot McNamara Evan Quirke, 14, of Presentation College, Athenry, and Athenry AC took the gold medal at the Junior Boys Long Jump at the All-Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships on June 2nd. The championships were held in Tullamore and Evan won the competition with a personal best jump...

David "The Sump" Huane celebrated his 40th birthday in style, organising the 4th Ballindine 4 miler. Results attached, by clock time, and by predicted time.

** Official Result Appended ** Stayed dry. Good field. All finished safely. Well done to organisers on their 6th running of the race.

Find attached the full result and prize winners for the 3rd Annual Milltown 10k 'Run for Ollie'. In total we had 632 registrations with 608 runners and walkers taking part. Our first senior was Enda Mannion for Tuam AC, and first female senior Mary Gleeson from Mayo AC. We would like to thanks all...

See: http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2012/0619/325695-britton-on-ireland-team-for-finland/ Fionnuala Britton has been named on the 26-member Irish team that will compete at the European Track and Field Championships in Helsinki, Finland from the 27 June to the 1 July. Britton has been in great...

Congratulations and well done to all the Under 9, 10, 11 & 12 athletes who competed in Dangan on Saturday last (9 June) in the AAI Connacht Competitions. It was a very successful day for the club. Full results attached

The annual Tonabrucky Challenge took place on Saturday, 9 June. The race now in its second year aimed to raise money for the Rahoon-Newcastle Hurling Club and Pieta House. The 6km course, which is Jones Counter Measured, and the event AAI Permitted, took in the town lands of Tonabrucky, Drum...

A record crowd and where's Mick Rice? Frank Burke was behind the camera to make it 25, I think. I even made a very rare appearance - only my second in 18 months :-(. That 9 O'Clock is coming up on 10 years this September...

** Official Result now appended ** Over 230 runners and walkers took part in the third annual running of this event. The day turned out gloriously sunny but not too warm – perfect for running. The summery weather and the big crowds contributed to a very festive atmosphere in the village which was...

A total of 51 athletes represented the Athenry area in the recent Galway Community Games Finals in Ballinderreen. They came home with a total of NINE gold, SEVEN silver and EIGHT bronze. Congrats to all!

Another member of AAC dipped under three recently: Lyall Guiney ex-Kanturk in his home Cork City Marathon. 2:53 is not exactly dipping under, more like destroying it! 21st too, and with a negative split. Did you do the Lotto that day too? We all knew t'was in you... Result is here .

Last race of the 2012 Galway 5KM Series is tomorrow evening in Tuam. I've always liked Tuam but this time it's slightly different as the race is at the end of the series rather than at the beginning, as has been the case all years to date. I am sure that the local club has all the stops pulled out...

Full result to be found off http://www.clareburrenmarathonchallenge.com/ ! T'was a hot day down there...