from IMRA website – IMRA Winners 2000-2008
– Leinster League Team Competition
– Friday is deadline for Delphi Accommodation for Connaught Championships IMRA Winners 2000-2008
(Rene Borg)
I have put together a document showing the winners in all Leagues and Championships since 2000.
You can find the document here
It’s very much still a work in progress even though we now have most winners registered.
For any errors, omissions, and other comments, we’d be delighted to hear from past winners and others who remember the days.
It would be great if we can get all details together so we can honour the winners of past years appropriately.
If anyone has information on the years 1980-1999, these will be much appreciated too.
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Leinster League Team Competition
(Rene Borg)
The Leinster League completed yesterday and with it many internal competitions, including the Team Competition.
Overall score can be seen here
More LL wrap-up to follow next week.
END RESULT
Rathfarnham WSAF brushed off all challengers once again and were undisputed champions of the Men’s Leinster League Team Competition just as they had claimed the Irish Club Championship week’s earlier.
Behind them four teams fought a tight battle for the honours: local men Sli Cualann, the orienteers of Setanta, tradition-steeped Crusaders, and the young guns of UCD.
In the end, slow starters from Crusaders left it too late to claim a place on the podium, Sli Cualann held on firm to the Silver and Setanta took the Bronze, but it wasn’t all in vain as the crusading Winter League champions narrowly defended 4th position from UCD on the very last day.
The young teams of UCD and Crusaders will look forward to challenging the more established top-3 in the coming season, but for Setanta it was business as usual with their a 2nd consecutive Silver medal. UCD may view it as a step down from their Bronze medals last year, while Sli Cualann improved from 5th and Crusaders from 7th.
A good bit behind the top-5 Fingal took 7th, and new teams TeaM BCD and Tumblewoods 7th and 8th. The other Rathfarnham club, Sportsworld, finished 9th. The strong orienteers from GEN and established hill running Clonliffe did not complete five races, neither did the Unwilling Wanderers or Ajax who made up the bottom spot.
On the women’s Crusaders women proved that hegemony is not a word reserved only for Rathfarnham as they made
As the Leinster League concluded at the Sugarloaf yesterday, so did the team competition in which 13 male teams competed (9 completed the league) and 5 female teams (1 completed).
COMPLETING TEAMS (and scoring runners in 5 best results):
MEN
Gold: Rathfarnham WSAF (Barry Minnock, John Brooks, Peter O’Farrell, Aaron O’Donohue, Adrian Tucker, Mike Long)
Silver: Sli Cualann (Vincent O’Sullivan, Cormac Conroy, Colm Mullen, Jimmy Synnott, Daniel Buckley, Ben Mooney, Richard Hourihan, Martin Francis, Mick Hanney)
Bronze: Setanta (Eoin Keith, Gerry Lalor, John McEnri, Kevin O’Riordan, Andreas Kusch, Tony Doolin, Sean Hassett)
4th: Crusaders AC (Shane O’Rourke, Jason Reid, Jason Kehoe, Rene Borg, Gavan Doherty)
5th: UCD (Jonathan Daly, Tim Grummell, Eoin Syron, Niall Fox, Zoran Skrba, John Kirwan)
6th: Fingal (Seamus Murphy, Ciaran Young, Ray Linn, John Rowe, Jonathan Corrie, Doug Corrie)
7th: Team BCD (Alfonso Ruiz De Azua, John Ahern, Declan Flanagan)
8th: Tumbleweeds (John Linehan, Ben Moore, Geraint Jones, John Grumley, Danny Ward)
9th: Sportsworld (Henny Brandsma, Sean O’Byrne, John Fitzgerald, Charlie O’Connell)
WOMEN
Gold: Crusaders AC (Aoife Joyce, Emma Sokell, Rachel Walters, Eva Fairmaner, Niamh Ni Cholmain)
REVIEW – MEN
13 male teams competed this year, a small step back from the 14 who competed in 2007. Club runners were better represented than ever, though, and 9 teams completed the league whereas only 8 did so last year.
That a host of new teams have joined can be seen as wellknown clubs such as DFO, Raheny, and North Laois did not manage to finish any races this year as they had done in 2007.
Most teams relied on 3-5 scorers to win them their points (old names such as Crusaders AC, and Sportsworld and new team’s such as Team BCD and Tumbleweeds), while the largest team was Wicklow’s Sli Cualann with 9 different runners contributing. Winners Rathfarnham needed 6.
No team ran more races than 2nd placed Setanta (11 out of 12) while Team BCD sprung into existence midway and completed only the min. 5. Of the close-knit top-5, most teams were managed to string out at least 10 results.
REVIEW – WOMEN
The women’s league saw a very large number of Crusaders women participate, but unfortunately, these numbers weren’t quite matched by other clubs as only 5 teams contested the women’s competition and no other team managed the 5 minimum required to finish.
This was one down on last year’s 6 teams, as Rathfarnham’s women did not contest the Leinster League. They did, however, play a major part in the recent Irish Club Championships and we hope to see them back next year.
In general club runners dominated the top-20s and top-50s in most races, which may serve as a welcome encouragement for those runners who’ve toyed with the thought of improving their running by joining a club.
It also saw the formation of several “teams”, e.g. hill runners banding together in their own “autonomous” clubs, which only added to the competition and fun factor of this year’s competition.
CLUB AND INDIVIDUALS
Just as Rathfarnham and Crusaders took the men’s and women’s honours, so did their “captains” Barry Minnock and Aoife Joyce, so there’s something to be said about “leading the line”.
Rathfarnham WSAF won 8 of the 11 races (Barry Minnock 6, John Brooks 2) while Setanta took 2 (Eoin Keith) and Letterkenny 1 (James McFadden). One was one by unaffiliated Wicklow runner Will Powderly.
Among the women Crusaders won 5 (all Aoife Joyce), UCD won 4 (US student Erin Roberts), and while Rathfarnham, Sli Cualann and Clonliffe got one each (Anne Ormsby, Jenny McAuley and Mags Greenan).
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Friday is deadline for Delphi Accommodation for Connaught Championships
(Turlough Conway)
The cut off for anyone wanting to stay in the Delphi adventure centre for the Connaught Championship is tommorrow Friday 17 July. If you wish to stay there please book by tommorrow close of business. The centre is conveniently situated between the 2 races, and as well as your best bet it may be your only bet at this stage!
Hopefully see you there, details below:
The Connaught Championship Connaught Champs will be based around the Delphi Mountain Resort again and we have fantastic mountain running weekend in store in this beautiful area. The Croagh Patrick race is on Saturday doubling as an Irish Championship race with the all round tough Ben Gorm race following on the Sunday (Check Events page for details of routed). Our friends in Delphi are offering us accommodation again this year details are below.
(Per night rate)
€30pp b+b bed in a four person Dorm
Rates are for 1,2,3 August (25 beds available Aug 1st, 40 available Aug 2nd and 3rd)
To Book: Ring 095 42208 say it is for the “IMRA mountain running weekend” and let them know which nights you wish to stay.
There will also be Pasta dinners available for 15 euro and lunches for 10 euro but we can arrange this closer to the time.