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Saturday, Day three of the All-Ireland Juvenile Track and Field Championships, had a successful outcome for a number of Kilkenny athletes. It had special significance for Sophie Parkinson, Gowran, and Paul Manning, St Joseph’s. Both athletes collected their second gold medal of the championships.

It was a happy bus load of young athletes who returned from Lough Key Forest Park, Roscommon, on Sunday evening. The bus departed with the St Senan’s athletes from Kilmacow shortly after dawn, collecting the Thomastown, Gowran and KCH athletes on the way and linking later with the boys and girls from St Joseph’s.

Crossing the bridge over the Annalee River, just outside Ballyhaise, Co Cavan, on Sunday morning was a treacherous affair. A very heavy frost on Saturday night turned cars, grass and trees white. Early arrivals for the uneven ages All-Ireland cross country championships found the carpark resembling a skating rink and the course, unlike the muck in Ballinakill, was white and hard. Thankfully the early morning sun brought a welcome thaw so that by the starting time of the first race at noon, conditions had greatly improved. Most of the Kilkenny athletes who braved the frost and fog for the long drive to Ballyhaise were rewarded with excellent results bringing home eight All-Ireland medals.

Kilkenny athletes had a successful outing to the Leinster cross-country championships in Adamstown, Co Wexford on Sunday when more than 30 Leinster medals were won. The best squad turned out to be the girls’ under 16 where the county team won gold and the Gowran club were second.