Malcolm Mccausland

Favourable outcomes for our athletes today and the picture is rosy, while a black day could see the post-mortem ordered almost immediately.

It was an inspiring morning in the Stade de France on the ninth day of the athletics programme at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Earlier it was a wet and windy start for the assembled stellar cast of international performers at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon in Larne - a nightmare scenario for race organiser James McIlroy.

Ireland is celebrating a medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships following javelin thrower Oisin Joyce turning in the performance of his young life to date.

KYLE Doherty will have expended more energy on Sunday morning training runs than he did in defending his title at Sunday's Waterside Half Marathon in Derry.

ANN-MARIE McGlynn and Hugh Armstrong start as favourites to claim the respective national senior titles at Sunday's Irish Life Dublin Marathon.

ATHLETICS Ireland has confirmed that both the men's and women's National Cross-Country Championships in Enniskillen next weekend (November 17) will be raced over a distance of 7.5km, the shortest it has ever been for the men.

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The 44-year-old forced the pace in the early stages before showing her younger rivals a clean pair of heels from halfway in Irvinestown

The strong showing by athletes from Ulster at the recent national championships is reflected in the 36-strong squad announced by Athletics Ireland