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With the Olympic Games just a few weeks away there was an air of anticipation around Santry Stadium at the weekend. The event was Woodies DIY senior track and field championships held over the two days, Saturday and Sunday. Photographers and reporters were intent on recording the final achievements of some of our Beijing-bound stars.

The county under 12 boys mixed relay team had a satisfactory trip to Athlone on Saturday. Competing in the Community Games All-Ireland cross-country they finished in third place. The team members were Luke FitzPatrick, Christopher Keane, Morgan Thomas and Dara Keane, all Aughavillar, Shane McGeary, Kilkenny City Harriers and Paul Manning, St Joseph’s.

A beautiful sunny day in Tullamore on Saturday was made all the more memorable by the quality performances by the Kilkenny athletes. Various commentators suggest this was one of the most competitive schools finals for many years.

Three Kilkenny athletes were part of the successful Ireland team which finished second in Banka Bystrica, Slovakia, at the weekend. Eileen O’Keeffe had a season’s best of 68.25m to take second place in the hammer. Aoife Hickey finished seventh in the shot with a put of 11.86m and Joanne Cuddihy ran the second leg of the third placed 4X400m relay team.

Galway Olympian Olive Loughane was the impressive winner of the Dublin Grand Prix of Race Walking in Dublin’s Phoenix Park on Sunday.

It was an action packed weekend in the Tullamore Harriers Stadium for the under 12 to under 19 national juvenile track and field championships. The heavy rain on Saturday afternoon and the very blustery and showery weather on Sunday may have wet many but failed to dampen the spirit and enthusiasm of the athletes. With a fine haul of 17 All-Ireland medals (six gold, seven silver, and four bronze) it was a weekend to remember.

Galway’s two top athletes Olive Loughnane and Paul Hession head to the World Track and Field Championships in Berlin next week as part of the Athletics Ireland team.