Irish athletes in action at the 2012 Stanford Invitational Meet in California...

In the 2012 Stanford Invitational Meet in California on Friday 6th of April, a number of Irish athletes were in action. Fionnuala Britton (Kilcoole AC) finished in fifth place the 5,000 metres in a personal best time of 15:28.22. Fionnuala was leading in the early stages of the race but faded slighty towards the end. Her time of 15:28.22 is only eight seconds outside the Olympic A standard of 15:20.00. Although she has already qualified for London in the 3,000 metre steeplechase, she is currently looking to qualify for the 5,000 metres before the July 8th deadline. Race video below (Fionnuala is in the long green singlet)...


Alistair Cragg (Clonliffe Harriers AC) was in action also finishing sixth in the 1500m with 3:42.00 and fourth in the 5,000m with 13:32.76. The video below shows Cragg in the orange singlet in second place until about 200m to go with a very crowded finish...



This video shows Cragg in the 5,000 metres....orange singlet again...


Other Irish athletes in action were...
Brendan O’Neill (Dundrum South Dublin AC), O’Neill recorded a time of 29:28 in the men’s 10,000m
Anthony Lieghio (Tallaght AC) finished 8th in the 1500m 3:49.07
Tommy Casey (Oklahoma State) was fifth in his section of the men’s 1500m 3:52.17.
Kerry Harty (Newcastle AC) was in the womens 1500m finishing fifth in a time of 4:18.81.
David Flynn (Clonliffe Harriers AC) and Tomas Cotter (Dunleer AC) recorded times of 8:49.24 and 8:51.88 respectively in the men’s 3,000m Steeplechase.
Michelle Finn from Cork (Duhallow AC/Leevale AC) and running for Western Kentucky clocked 10:14.09 for third place in the women’s 3,000m Steeplechase....video below with Michelle running in a white and red singlet with red shorts...Michelle is back in around 13th place for most of the race before moving up to 8th with just one lap to go and put in a great last 400 metres to take third.

Full results HERE