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Galway Parks tennis finals

The finals of the Galway Parks tennis competition took place at the Galway Lawn Tennis Club on Friday July 24. A total of eight venues hosted tennis camps for the previous four weeks, culminating in the competition finale last Friday.

Creaven wins All Ireland cross country in style

Next Sunday Galway’s finest distance runners will descend on Craughwell for the Galway AAI 10-mile road race championship.

Galway athletes target Olympics

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Galwegian Gary Thornton is hoping to follow sprinter Paul Hession's footsteps with qualification for the London Olympics.

SPORTS SHORTS

•SPORTS PERFORMANCE: The Sports Performance Centre in Oranmore Business Park is offering individual athletes and teams of all sporting disciplines scientific based programmes. The centre is open for children from six years of age up at the initiation stage up to high performance stage for adults 19 years and over. There are four phases of development at the centre: 6 to 10 years old – Initiation Development Phase; 11 to 14 years old – Athletic Development Phase; 15-18 years old – Specialisation Phase; 19+ years old - High Performance Phase. During the four phases, all athletes learn how to optimise their general athletic motor skills. The programme includes coordination and balance, speed , general endurance (aerobic and progressive anaerobic from specialisation phase), progressive anatomical adaptation for strength and power development, and flexibility and agility. New courses are starting early April and there are limited spaces on each course. For more information contact Sports Performance Centre, Unit 5 Oranmore Business Park, Oranmore, Galway. Email: [email protected]; or visit www.sportsperformance.ie.

Mullingar athlete wins St Patrick’s Festival 5k race in record time

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Mullingar athlete Mark Christie has won the KBC Asset Management St Patrick’s Festival 5k Road Race, which took place in Dublin this week. The Mullingar Harriers AC runner completed the course in a new record time of 00:14:12, clipping two seconds off the previous course record.

 

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