Race Report

Race reports contributed to and written by club members

Leinster Novice Cross Country Championships 2022

by Stephan de Vries Sunday the 23rd was the day for the Leinster Novice Cross Country championships in Carlingford. At the start of October there was a scramble to get a team together, we got a...

Dublin City Marathon 2022

The 41st Dublin Marathon took place earlier today, the first in three years, with 15,000 competitors taking part. Morocco's Taoufik Allem won the men's race in a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 30...

Leinster Senior Cross Country 2022 Ballyhale

Race report for Leinster Senior XC, Ballyhale, 5 November, 2022 I don’t think I can remember a November cross-country race as mild as the Leinster senior cross-country in Ballyhale, a small village in south Kilkenny...

La Santa 2022

Dispatch from La Santa - the view from the sideline of the road. This is a small taster from someone who didn't actually manage to run the races (i.e. Garrett) intersected with some juicier inside...

Women’s Cross Country League: Race 1 – Cowpark Dunboyne 27th November 2022

by Niamh McDaid For those who might not know me, my name is Niamh Mc Daid and I joined Sportsworld in October 2021. I’m one of the latest Cork recruits to the club, boosting the...

National Novice XC, Coona, Cork, 2022

Some people think Cork is the true capital of Ireland, the best county in the world and home of pretty much everything that is perfect with Ireland. What it is not is close to...

Dublin Intermediate Cross Country Tymon 2022

The 11th of December saw the final race of 2022 for Sportsworld (except for the few who are crazy enough to race over the Christmas holidays…). It was a bitterly cold weekend as Ireland...

Dublin Masters 2023

The 2023 masters cross country championships was held in St. Anne's Park Raheny on Sunday 8th January 2023 and was hosted by Raheny Shamrocks AC. There were four separate races starting at 12.30 including over...

Leinster Intermediate and Masters Cross County Avondale

We had 4 races in Avondale at the weekend and we have 3 writers covering their races. We had a few first time cross country runners, a number of team and individual cross country...

Women’s Cross Country League: Race 2– Tymon Park 22nd January 2023

by Tara Burke Race 2 of the Meet & Train league was held last Sunday hosted by our own Sportsworld along with Brothers Pearse in Tymon Park. There were some mixed emotions pre-race with some...