Coláiste Chú Chulainn excel at North Leinster Track and Field finals

DunDaLk’s Coláiste

Chú Chulainn turned heads at the North Leinster Track and Field Athletics Finals in Tullamore on Wednesday 26th April.

The 60 student team competed in a broad range of events after spending the winter training under Mr Conor Durnin, Ms Deirdre Dunford and Mr Simon Nicks. They took the podium 17 times, including in 3 relay races. This means the local school carried a haul of 26 medals home to delighted family and friends.

Mr Conor Durnin said: “Sixty students left Dundalk at 7am. We had entrants in many events such as shot putt, javelin, discus, pole vault, triple jump, high jump and many track races. Some were new events for our school. This is testament to the targeted training and broad range of expertise amongst students and staff. Many students transferred their skills from their martial arts, gym clubs, basketball and swimming activities to a new set of events.

“We will now be rep- resented in 13 event in the Leinster finals and who knows, we may be in the All Ireland finals in June!”

The list of

Minor Boys 80m: Fikayo Oluajo (Gold) , Goodluck Kamgba (Bronze)

Minor Boys High Jump (Gold) : Nelson Akubuko

Minor Boys 4x100m relay (Gold) : Fikayo Olu- ajo, Goodluck Kamgba, Nelson Akubuko, Tishe Abuede

Junior Boys Triple Jump (Gold) : Success

Joshua

Junior Boys Pole Vault (Silver) Jonathan Gibson

Intermediate Boys 4x100m relay (Bronze): Fahd Monney, Gerard Chikodzera, James Obisan, Frank Obi

Intermediate Boys 100m (Bronze) James Obisan

Senior Boys shot put (Siver): Gytis Kuckailis

Senior Boys 100m (Bronze) Emmanuel Ojo

Senior Boys Javelin: Darragh Quinn (Silver), Lochlann Mattison (Bronze)

Senior Boys Discus (Silver) Dan Maruhin

Senior Boys 4x100m relay (Silver): Emmanuel Ojo, Cheta Obiefuma, Jakub Kachel, Joshua Ubaezuonu

Junior Girls Triple Jump: Cara Miele

Junior Girls High Jump: Cara Miele

Intermediate Girls Shot Put (Bronze) Josephine Fagbemi

Inter Girls Discus (Silver) Josephine Fagbemi.