Start of the 2022 Ballintotis 4-mile road race |
The ever popular Ballintotis 4-mile road race was held on Thursday the 21st of April 2022 near Castlemartyr in East Cork with a total of 812 runners crossing the finish line.
The men's race was hotly contested with the first 4 men in a tight bunch with just 1100m to go.
It was only near the end of the race that the group began to split and Michael Harty pulled away from the rest to cross the finish line first.
Lizzie Lee was a comfortable winner in the women's race with a time of 22m 30s.
1 Michael HARTY 00:19:18 00:19:18 589 M M40 East Cork AC
2 Tim O'DONOGHUE 00:19:28 00:19:28 798 M MS East Cork AC
3 Niall SHANAHAN 00:19:31 00:19:31 1136 M M40 An Bru AC
4 Paul HARTNETT 00:19:41 00:19:41 588 M MS East Cork AC
5 James MCCARTHY 00:19:57 00:19:57 1140 M MS East Cork AC
6 Conor MCCAULEY 00:19:58 00:19:59 702 M MS Leevale AC
29 Lizzie LEE 00:22:19 00:22:20 671 F F40 Leevale AC
50 Linda O'SULLIVAN 00:23:55 00:23:57 866 F F50 Watergrasshill AC
55 Breda GAFFNEY 00:24:12 00:24:13 564 F F45 Mallow AC
62 Jen PRESTON 00:24:24 00:24:27 890 F FS Liffey Valley AC
63 Carmel CROWLEY 00:24:28 00:24:29 488 F F50
72 Rosaleen MACKEOWN 00:24:55 00:24:58 685 F F45 Leevale AC
Kenneth Kelleher (14th) & Michael Harty (1st) of East Cork AC before the start of the race |
Sisters Rosaleen MacKeown (6th woman) & Lizzie Lee (1st woman) |
Great run as always.
ReplyDeleteThanks again to all the volunteers.
Great to be back.