Ojewumi achieves Euro standard in a great week for Tallaght AC
TALLAGHT Athletic Club sprinter Joseph Ojewumi achieved the European Indoor qualification standard after racing to victory in the 60m at the Inter Varsities Indoor Championships in Athlone last Friday.
In clocking a time of 6.77 he equalled the National Under 23 record while clubmate Eoin Doherty finished sixth in the final with a season’s best time of 6.90.
Tallaght AC's Joseph Ojewumi clocked the European Indoor standard in the 60m
Their perfomances were the highlight in a great week for Tallaght AC that saw the club also make its presence felt at the Dublin Juvenile Indoor Champion-ships in the National Indoor Arena in Abbottsown.
In a competition that boasted a record numbers of more than 3000 individual track and field entries, Dylan Byrne topped the podium in the Under 18 400m.
The Under 18 Girls 200m Final line-up of six athletes included five Tallaght sprinters with Rhasidat Adeleke storming to victory ahead of Rathfarnham/WSAF runner Isabelle Doyle while Lauryn Mc Dermott took bronze and Aisling McGuinnes, Katelyn Murphy O’ Neill and Sophia Kourrini followed her across the line.
McDermott later added silver to her winnings when finishing second in the 60m hurdles.
Jack Kelly also won gold in the Under 15 800m with a pillar-to-post victory while Abbie Brennan won a well-deserved bronze in the Under 16 1500m and later finished sixth in her 800m final.
Moses Ikpefua was another to win bronze after he finished third in the Under 17 60m sprint while Leon Patterson won silver in the Under 14 Long Jump contest.
Lee Brennan got boxed in during the early exchanges of his Under 13 600m Final and consequently just missed out on the podium when finishing fourth after a storming run over the closing 80m.
Others who reached finals after they produced good efforts in the earlier rounds included Thomas Keating in the Under 13 60m sprint, Ryan Johnson who finished fifth in the Under 19 400m, debutante Hazel Jordan who finished a very creditable fifth in her Under 14 800m, Conor Murphy in the Under 15 800, Under 16 Elvira Kosy Okeke, Clifford in the Under 17 800m and 1500m and Erin Hayes in the Under 18 400m.
