Trio named on women's marathon team
Athletics Ireland have made the decision to select national champion Linda Byrne along with Catriona Jennings and Ava Hutchinson for the Olympic women's marathon.
Athletics Ireland have made the decision to select national champion Linda Byrne along with Catriona Jennings and Ava Hutchinson for the Olympic women's marathon.
Irish race walker Rob Heffernan discusses his hopes for London 2012 and his career thus far.
Mairead Murphy has set a new Irish Senior record in the Heptathlon.
Robert Heffernan, who is targeting the 50km walk at the 2012 London Games, produced another solid performance at the IAAF World Cup of Race Walking in Saransk, Russia, finishing in 12th place in 1 hour 21 minutes 51 seconds.
Dwain Chambers should count himself very lucky to get a second chance to compete at the Olympics, according to Steve Cram.
Steven Colvert has broken the Irish U23 100m Record running 10.35 to win his race at the Occidental Invitational in California.
Tori Pena, of Finn Valley AC, set a New Irish pole vault record, clearing 4.52m at the San Diego Triton Invitational in the USA.
Aileen Morrison took a second place finish at the Ishigaki ITU World Cup in Japan, while Mark Noble did his Olympic qualification chances no harm with a 24th place finish..
Kenya's Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany won the men's and women's events respectively in the London Marathon as the African nation dominated the podium places in the elite races.
Paula Radcliffe insists she is not giving up on her Olympic dream despite a poor performance in the Vienna half-marathon on Sunday.
Kenenisa Bekele has won the men’s 10km in spectacular fashion at the Spar Great Ireland Run in the Phoenix Park.
Gemma Steel reversed places with last year’s winner Charlotte Purdue to take victory in the 10km Spar Great Ireland Run in the Phoenix Park.
Catriona Jennings has become the fourth Irish athlete to achieve the 'A' standard women's marathon qualification time for the London Olympic games.
Fionnuala Britton (Kilcoole AC) finished in fifth place in the 2012 Stanford Invitational in a personal best time of 15:28.22.
Alistair Cragg set a new Irish and European road race 5k record with a time of 13:26.
Maria McCambridge has become the fifteenth Irish athlete to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics.
Top Spanish runners, Jesus Espana and Ayad Lamdassem, will lead the European challenge against the legendary Kenenisa Bekele in next month’s SPAR Great Ireland Run.
Ben Reynolds finished seventh in his semi-final of the men’s 60 metres hurdles in the World Indoor Athletics Championships.
Derval O'Rourke has failed to reach the final of the women's 60m hurdles at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Istanbul; however, Ben Reynolds has made it through to the men's 60m hurdles semi-final.
Ireland's Natalya Coyle will compete in the final at the first World Cup event of 2012 at Charlotte, USA on Saturday.