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Rising Sun Athletic Club |
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Founded in 1944 |
NEWS
The Annual general meeting of Rising Sun was held on the 4th of October. The club will promote
the Paddy Desmond Memorial 4 mile road race on St.Patrick's day next. The annual Staight mile will also be held
next May. On August bank holiday Monday the club will again promote our annual sports in the CIT track. Officers elected were
President Sean O'Sullivan, Chairman Donal Vaughan, Vice-Chairman Brendan Dennehy, Secretary Jim Murray and treasurer John O'Riordan.
Rising Sun held the annual Enable Ireland Mile in Lisfehill Road, Ballinhassig on Sunday May 15th at 7 pm.
Weather conditions were good on the night with the runners having to battle a stiff west wind. Ed Murphy won a very close
race from John Shine and James Grufferty. The winning time was 4:30 which is just 1 second outside the course record.
The Ladies race was won by Martina Kiely from Elaine Guinnane and Rebecca McEvoy. There was a problem with some of the times on the night.
If any runner can help fill in the gaps we would be very grateful. Finally thank you to all who gave very generously on the night.
All entries and donations will go to the Enable Ireland. This total now stands at Euro 500.00.
Results
Pat Breen has put photos of the race on his flickr website.
To view click on this link
Rising Sun held the 7th Annual Paddy Desmond Memorial 4 mile road race in Ballinhassig on March 17th.
The race was won by Wieslaw SOSNOWSKI, Eagle in a time of 20:56. This was Wieslaw's 3rd year in a row winning this race.
It was also a new course record beating his own record of 21:03 set in 2009.The womens race was won by Emma Murphy, St Finbarrs in a time of
24:12. Gerry Forde was first home in the wheelchair category. There was a record turnout of 257 at hletes. We would like to thank John Walshe for
taking the entries and producing the results. Also thanks to Monica Twohig and Liam O'Brien for coming in at late notice to help
with the entries. We would like to thank the officers of the County board for their help on the day.(The race also incorporated
the County Novice & Masters road championships, results of which will be available from the County board). Finally thanks to Matt
for the use of the Marion Hall.
Full results
Previous years results
2011----4Mile
2010----4Mile
2009----4Mile
2008----4Mile
2007----4Mile
2006-----5K
2005 ----5K
Rising Sun Athletes Sean O'Sullivan and Denis Howard recently had a number of national records ratified by the Irish Masters Athletics
Association. These are in addition to other records held by Con Donovan and Denis Howard.
To view these records click here