Lizzie Lee winning the 2022 Streets of Kilkenny 5k. Photo: Gearóid Ó Laoi |
The Streets of Kilkenny 5k is regarded as one of the premier 5k road races in Ireland and always attracts a lot of fast runners. The 2022 race was held on Thursday the 14th of April with a lot of runners from Cork making the trip to the marble city.
Lizzie Lee of Leevale AC was in flying form when she took the women's title in a time of 16m 31s.
There were a total of 713 finishers with the first 14 men going under 15 minutes.
Top 10 men & women...
1223 2 Michael Harty East Cork A.C. M40 0:14:14 0:14:14
846 3 William Maunsell M 0:14:17 0:14:17
1323 4 Brian Maher Kilkenny City Harriers A.C. M40 0:14:18 0:14:18
1166 5 Sean Doyle North Cork A.C. M 0:14:25 0:14:25
1591 6 Kieran Kelly Raheny Shamrock A.C. M 0:14:30 0:14:30
1222 7 Liam Harris Togher A.C. M 0:14:38 0:14:38
1428 8 Tim O Donoghue East Cork A.C. M 0:14:39 0:14:39
831 9 John Shine Leevale A.C. M 0:14:40 0:14:40
1371 10 Paul Moloney Mallow A.C. M40 0:14:41 0:14:41
2546 68 Lizzie Lee Leevale A.C. F40 0:16:31 0:16:31
1343 74 Maria Mc Cambridge Dundrum South Dublin A.C. F45 0:16:46 0:16:46
1102 77 Jessica Coyne Leevale A.C. F 0:16:51 0:16:51
1589 83 Dympns Ryan Dundrum AC F40 0:16:59 0:17:00
1293 98 Michelle Kenny Leevale A.C. F40 0:17:27 0:17:27
2126 99 Ava Costello Trim A.C. Jnr F 0:17:26 0:17:27
1133 100 Lauren Dermody Castlecomer A.C. F 0:17:28 0:17:28
2123 104 Carol Finn Leevale A.C. F 0:17:29 0:17:29
1426 107 Siobhan O Doherty Borrisokane A.C. F 0:17:37 0:17:37
2128 118 Amy Moran Dundrum South Dublin A.C. F 0:17:49 0:17:50
Full results are on the Pop Up Races website
Michael Harty of East Cork AC was the second man home and set a new national M40 record in the process.
New Irish M40 5km record for Michael Harty of East Cork. Photo: Gearóid Ó Laoi |
John Walshe writes... "Michael Harty's time of 14:14 is a new Irish M40 5km record, the previous best was 14:21 by Brian Maher. Brian - 45 in September - was also inside the own record last night with his time of 14:18."
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