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Report of leading Irish Results from the weekend

Jennings Storms To Olympic Marathon Qualifying Time Sunday, April 15th, 2012 Catriona Jennings (Rathfarnham AC) put in an outstanding performance to achieve the qualification standard for the London Olympic Games in today’s Rotterdam Marathon, running a time of 2:36:14 (inside the Olympic A standard of 2:37). Jennings joins Linda Byrne (Dundrum South Dublin AC) 2:36:23, Ava Hutchinson (Dundrum South Dublin AC) 2:35:33 and Maria McCambridge (Letterkenny AC) 2:36:37 as the fourth Irish women to achieve the standard for London. Sean Connolly (Tallaght AC) was also targeting the men’s standard of 2:15 in Rotterdam today, however Connolly narrowly missed out finishing in a time of 2:16:40. Away from the marathon, Robert Heffernan (Togher AC) claimed fourth position in the men’s 20k event at the Greater Rio International Race Walking Grand Prix in Portugal. This was Heffernan’s ...

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