Category Results of the Cork BHAA Pfizers 6 mile road race - Wed 11th May 2011

The un-official numbers for this race are roughly 340 which are down a bit on last year. Conditions were almost perfect.....a bit of a breeze but otherwise fine.

Gerry Forde gets the proceedings under way

The winner of the mens race was Cathal O'Connell who won it back in 2009 as well. Cathal finished in a time of 32:44, about 30 seconds ahead of his nearest rival.

In the ladies race, the winner was Maura Regan who won her first ever race in a time of 38:46. Maura has previously finished 2nd in the Clonakilty Half-Marathon and 5th in the recent Connemara 39.3 mile Ultra-Marathon.

PFIZER 6-MILE ROAD RACE (CORK BHAA)
Cathal O’Connell (UCC, M45) 32:44; 2 Donal Coffey (Pilz) 33:12; 3 S Mangan (temp-reg) 34:33; 4
Kieran O’Sullivan (Cork Garda, M40) 34:44; 5 Tom Laffan (HSE, M40) 34:49; 6 T Mahony (Cork City Co) 35:17; 7 Marc Dalton (Midleton UDC) 35:30; 8 W McNamara (temp-reg) 35:48; 9 D Murphy (DMP) 35:54; 10 Derek O’Keeffe (Digisoft) 36:04.
M40: 3 Colin O’Herlihy (Logitech) 37:12.
M45: 2 Stan Byczek (Midleton News) 38:18.
M50: 1 John Collins (Team adidas) 36:31.
Team: (Grade A) 1 Midleton News 70; 2 UCC 84; 3 Moog 580. (Grade B) 1 Midleton UDC 87; 2 EMC 108; 3 Bord Gais 109. (Grade C) 1 Naval Service 224; 2 Bord Gais 251; 3 UCC 265.

Women: 1 Maura Regan (HSE) 38:46; 2 Karen Prendergast (HSE) 38:48; 3 Deirdre Nagle (temp-reg) 39:08; 4 Mary Sweeney (temp-reg) 40:10; 5 A O’Riordan (temp-reg) 40:43; 6 L Keane (temp-reg) 40:56.
Team: (Grade A) 1 HSE 3; 2 HSE 24. (Grade B) 1 Cork Garda 70; 2 Avondhu Motors 86.

The full results can now be seen HERE (PDF Format)

Photos...Doug Minihane has a slideshow of photos HERE