Sprinter Amy Foster equals Irish 100m record and qualifies for European championships...

Some more Irish athletes were in action over the weekend in Florida and in England.

Amy Foster (City of Lisburn) was in action on Sat 10th of May in the womens 100m at the Sprint Elite meet in Clermont in Florida. In the preliminary round, she recorded a time of 11.59 seconds before going on to run 11.40 seconds in the final. This equals the Irish record held by Ailis McSweeney of Leevale AC which was set in July of 2010.

The time also equals the 'A standard' required to qualify for the European Track and Field Championships in Zurich in August. The time is also inside the qualifying time of 11.45 seconds for the Commonwealth Games in late July in Scotland where Amy will represent Northern Ireland.

Also on Saturday, both Fionnuala Britton (Kilcoole AC) and Maria McCambridge were in the Highgate Harriers Night of 10000m PBs event. The required 'A' standard here for the European Championships was 32:15. Only Jo Pavey from England managed to get within the 'A' standard while the current European Cross Country champion Sophie Duarte was second in 32:36. Fionnuala Britton faded in the second half of the race to finish in 4th place in 32:57. Her PB is 31:29 which was set in April 2012. Maria McCambridge ran a personal best time of 33:19 which moves her up to 17th on the all time Irish list.

1 32:11.04    Jo Pavey V40 Exeter  
2 32:36.32    Sophie Duarte         SEN   FRA             
3 32:45.69    Beth Potter    PB    Shaftesbury Barnet/St. Mary's Uni 
4 32:57.49    Fionnuala Britton    SB    SEN    W    Ireland
7 33:19.43    Maria Mc Cambridge    PB    V35  Letterkenny//Ireland

Full weekend results here.. https://sites.google.com/site/runninginireland/weekend-atheltic-results-10th-11th-may-2014