All athletes who either won a medal or came 4th in the Leinster Championships have qualified for the National Championships.  These athletes have been automatically entered.  If you cannot make these championships please let Finola Moore know ASAP. Timetable and go to page 27  Please note day 3 and 4 have been switched!

If an u17 - u19  athlete could not compete in the Leinsters for whatever reason and wish to enter for the Nationals please let Finola know ASAP and she will enter you.  Payment for this must be made with the request i.e. 4 euro per event.  ph: Finola 087 - 4121375 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Last weekend was a very busy weekend for our athletes.  On Saturday our u9 - u11 athletes travelled to Templemore to compete in the National pairs competition.  We had three pairs taking part.  John Clarke and Conor Comiskey had a fantastic competition in the u11 ball throw where they won the bronze medals.  Well done boys!  Emilie Donaghy and Niamh Redmond also took part in the u9 girls ball throw and Ruth Dwyer and Holly Tynan in the u10 girls ball throw.  The girls had a great competition but were just outside the medals.

On Sunday our junior (u20) athletes travelled to Tullamore to take part in the National junior championships.  Seye Ogunlewe once again had a great race and claimed the silver medal in the 100m in a time of 10.8.  Sandra Lawler raced away again to victory in the 100m hurdles adding another National title to all her others.

On Sunday also, the B championships took place in Newbridge with alsmost all athletes who travelled winning a medal.  Results to follow later.

The Co. B Championships will take place in Newbridge on Sunday next 28th at 12.00.  Please be there at 11.30a.m. and wear singlet and shorts.  Any athlete who did not win a medal in the track events in the counties can compete in the track events and any athlete who did not win a medal in the counties in the field events can compete in the field events.A full list of names of those who cannot compete are at the bottom.

The following are the events:

GIRLS

u9    80m and ball throw

u10  80m and ball throw

u11 100m, 600m and ball throw

u12 100m, 800m and Long Jump

u14 100m, 1000m and Shot

BOYS

u9    80m and ball throw

u10  80m and long jump

u11  100m, 600m and long jump

u12  100m, 800m and long jump

u14  100m, 1000m and shot

Senior Women 200m

Masters Women 200m

Senior Men 200m and 5000m

Masters Men 400m

Athletes not eligible to compete in track or field:  Rian Quinn, Davin Quinn and Christine Campion

Athletes not eligible to compete in the field events (but can do track) are:  Ciaran Wilson, Shauna Minnock, Ruth Dwyer, Niamh O Connor, Elaine Wilson, Daniel Cahill, John Clarke, Amanda Flynn, Ross Hackett, Alan Carroll, Matthew Dwyer, Emmet Dunne and Rory Hanratty.

All other athletes can compete in both!

Day 1 of the u14- u19 Leinster T & F Championships got underway in Tullamore on Saturday.  First up for Celbridge was Aoife Sheehy, competing in the u19 walk.  Aoife only home from holidays the day before walked brilliantly to take the gold medal.  Shauna Minnock then competed in the u14 javelin and with a throw over 24m claimed the silver medal.  This was closely followed by Eoin Moore in the boys u17 javelin who also took the silver medal with a throw of over 31m.  There was no stopping the Celbridge Athletes at this stage!  Sinead Lawler competed in the u17 Long Jump and won it with a jump of 5.20m, she then had to rush to the hurdles where she took the silver medal and followed this up by a fantastic win the the 100m sprint.  Christine Campion gave a great display in the u14 80m hurdles to win in what we believe will be a new Championship record.  Christine was closely followed by Shauna Minnock who had a great race to take bronze.  Next up was Vivian Fleischer in the u15 hurdles and she did great to also win the bronze medal. Ronan Power competed in the u17 high jump and won the bronze medal.   Aiden Moloney finished the u18 800m in 2.06 mins to win bronze.  Other athletes to compete on the day were Conor Burke in the 3000m, Jessica McHugh in the 200m & Long Jump and David Campbell in the 400m.  David unfortunately had to pull up with an achilles injury.  Brian Moore competed in the u15 javelin and was unlucky to be placed in 4th just outside a medal with a throw of 26.90m but this was enough to qualify for the Nationals in July.  Vivian Fleischer also got 4th in the u15 long jump with over 4.20 m and also qualifies.  Jessica McHugh and Vivian Fleischer took part on the Co. Kildare team in the inter co. relays and picked up a bronze medal.

Day 2 saw Christine Campion in action again.  This time in the 100m sprint where she ran another great race to take the silver medal.  Shauna Minnock took part in the u14 long jump and finished in 5th place another great placing.  Conor Burke took part in the u18 steeplechase and ran brilliantly to finish in 4th place which qualifies him for the Nationals.  The u18 and u19 relays were cancelled in Kilkenny because of the mix up with the leaving cert paper but were run today.  Our boys team of David, Aiden, Conor and Paul competed in both the 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m to take the gold medal in both.

Well done to all athletes that competed in these Championships!  All the hard work over the past few months paid off!  It is worth noting that every athlete that travelled to Tullamore on Saturday and Sunday either won a medal or qualified for the Nationals.  That is a great record and will be hard to beat!