D.S.D athletes impress at IUAA Championships!

At the IUAA Championships in Santry at the weekend D.S.D athletes registered some top class performances. Cara Murphy posted P.B’s in her heat of the 400m hurdles and in the final, where she won gold.    Ciarán Carthy returned to 400m racing, with a great win in a time of 47.89. Eimear Maher ran very well to finish 1st in the 1500m, with Emma McEvoy also winning the 5,000m, with very good performance. Ciara Wilson Bowen won silver in 1500m walk and Mollie Hourihan 3rd 400m (Thanks to Rachel for comprehensive list of D.S.D results.)       100m Hurdles: Louise King (UL) - 6th in Final (16.13) 200m Emma Roche (TUD) - 6th in Heat (27.95) Ben Hauer (MU) - 6th in Heat (22.95q); 5th in Semi Final (22.97) David Doyle (UCD) - 3rd in Heat (22.53Q) Louis Lalor (TUD) - 3rd in Heat (23.16Q) 400m Molly Hourihan (UCD) - 3rd in Final (55.28) Ciarán Carthy (DCU) - 1st in Heat (48.51Q); 1st in Final (47.89 )   Godwin Mathias (TUD) - 3rd in Heat (52.42) 400m Hurdles Cara Murphy (UCD) - 1st in Heat (1.01.04 PB Q); 1st in Final (1.00.72 PB)   800m Aisling Cunningham (UCD) - 4th in Heat (2.29.30) Andrew McGilton (UCD) - 3rd in Heat (1.56.54q); 8th in Final (1.59.49) 1500m Eimear Maher (UCC) - 1st in Final (4.27.15)     Sean Quinn (UCD) - 4th in Heat (4.05.77Q); 11th in Final (4.03.66) 1500m Walk Ciara Wilson Bowen (DCU) - 2nd in Final (6.48.45 )   3000m Saoirse O’Brien (UCD) - 14th in Final (10.30) 5000m Emma McEvoy (UCD) - 1st in Final (16.35.52)     William Kinsella (TCD) - 17th in Final (18.31.30) Long Jump Louise King (UL) - 15th (4.91m) Shot Putt Emma Roche (TUD) - 8th (8.89m) Louise King (UL) - 11th (8.60m) High Jump Louise King (UL) - 5th (1.55m) Discus Emma Roche (TUD) - 7th (30.39m) Pentathlon Louise King (UL) - 4th   Well done to all! (Thanks to Mark for photos! and GMU for last one!)