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Conor Penney of Calasanctius College and Craughwell AC was outstanding. He smashed the Tailteann Games High Jump record with a huge 2.09 metre effort. Penney leaped up to 2.05 metres clearing all heights on his first attempt, and then set the record initially by jumping over at 2.07m and added further to it when clearing 2.09m on his second attempt for an amazing victory.

Craughwell AC had one of its best team achievements on Saturday when the senior women’s team won bronze medal in the National League final in Dublin.

More than 400 athletes took part in a hugely successful inaugural running of the Craughwell AC organised Women’s Mini Marathon held on Bank Holiday Monday.

University of Galway athletes secured four medals at the Intervarsities Indoor Track and Field Championships held in the National Indoor Arena in Dublin on Saturday.

Thomas McStay of Galway City Harriers travels to Turin, Italy this weekend to compete as part of a strong Irish U23 team at the European Cross-Country Championships.

A gutsy performance by David Bohan in the men’s race over 7km ensured Galway secured a senior gold at the Connacht Cross Country Championships on a testing Roscommon Racecourse on Sunday.

Galway athletes excelled at the traditional curtain-raiser to the National Cross-Country season which took place at Abbottstown in Dublin on Sunday on a fast and relatively dry course.

Galway athletes will be in action this weekend with many of Europe’s top athletes descending on Abbottstown in Dublin for the European Cross-Country Championships.

Some of Galway’s top distance runners will be competing in what is traditionally the blue riband event of the athletics season, the National Cross Country Championships.

Galway teams travel in force to the last major national cross country championships, which are being held in Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, on Saturday.