DONEGAL athletes began well at the Irish Life Health National Juvenile Championships in Tullamore this evening.
Ryan Canning of Letterkenny AC took cold in the first final of the Championships.
Canning took gold in the Under-19 400m hurdles. The Leterkenny ace finished in 60.79 seconds to take the gold.
Tir Chonaill AC’s Lucy McGlynn was a convincing winner in the Under-18 400m hurdles.
McGlynn won in 65.49 seconds, staving off Carrick-On-Suir’s Lorna O’Shea, who took silver in 66.82 seconds.
McGlynn has just moved up to the long hurdles and is firmly on the rise,
Lifford-Strabane AC’s Harriet McCrossan was the silver medalist in the Under-17 300m hurdles.
McCrossan took silver in 46.11 seconds, with the event won by Limerick athlete Eimear Galvin in 45.71 seconds.
McCrossan had a fall at the seventh hurdle in her heat, but the gutsy teen got back on her feet to advance to the final, where she took a fine second.
Tir Chonaill’s Fintan Dewhirst was third in the Under-17 pole vault, going over at 2.70 metres and he was the silver medalist in the Under-17 300m hurdles,
Dewhirst went straight from hurdles to poles for back-to-back medals.
Letterkenny AC’s Fern Duffy was seventh in the Under-14 and will go again tomorrow in the 200m.
