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Well the rain stayed away, and I actually got some sun, not sure how considering I had a coat on and the wind was cold, but sure that's Irish weather for you :)

After a busy day on Saturday with my darling making her communion, we somehow managed to get the kids out the door and over to Le Cheile for 9.20am or so on Sunday morning to see the girls warming up for the walks, and once again they didn't let us down. The Under 13 girls 1k walk was dominated by Celbridge as Ava, Saoirse and Abbie took 1st, 2nd and 4th respectively, a sign that the hard work they put in is paying off. Rhea won the Under 15 walks by a distance, while Rebecca and Leah also took home the medals dominating the girls under 17 walks. And a little mention for Aidan who picked up silver in the under 13 boys walks.

Plenty more highlights with Danielle Kelly picking up gold in the under 9 girls long jump, while Daniel Connolly ran a brilliant third in the under 11 boys 600m, a race that is always ultra-competitive.

Ellen Gannon took silver in the under 16 1500m, Rebecca Carroll took bronze in the under 17 1500m while Emma Thompson took bronze in the Junior 1500m too, well done girls.

In the sprints, Hannah took silver in the under 17 100m final, while Eoghan took home gold in the under 17 boys 200m final.

In High Jump, Steffen must be feeding them something strong as Jake Saunders took home gold in the under 15 boys event, while Sam Kelly took home gold in the under 13s event with Aidan taking silver.

On the relays front, Amy Byrne, Nina Martin, Grace Maughan and Ria Kelly performed brilliantly to take gold in the Under 15 relays, while Celbridge won the medely with Hannah, Aoife, Emma and Amy driving the team to Gold.

And a litle mention goes to Jack Gilmartin, who ran superbly in the boys under 10 500m, Jack has performed very well in the league and again at the weekend and it's only a matter of time before he steps on to the podium, good lad Jack, keep it going.

Round 2 takes place this coming Saturday 6th May from 10am at Celbridge AC track, good luck all

Celbridge Community Games for athletics track and field will take place on Friday 4th May from 5.30 at Celbridge Athletics track.

Last weekend saw the final round of the League take place in Newbridge, and once again we saw some fantastic performances from the clubs young athletes. We had great results across track and field events taking first place in 600m events as well as sprints and long jump. We have finished in 2nd place in our league behind Kildare AC, which is a strong result considering they had higher numbers competing at each round than Celbridge did. The clubs aim is to continue to retain as many of those younger athletes that we have today, and develop them over the next 12 months to hopefully move back to where I personally feel we belong which is at the top of Kildare athletics. A huge well done to everyone who competed  over the 3 dates, and we'll hopefully have a celebratory party at the track soon.

Last weekend also saw 5 of our club athletes run the London Marathon in scorching heat across the water. Well done the below on some fantastic times and once again putting the club on the map. 

Séan MacCarthaigh 3:06:28
Colm Higgins 3:27:45
Krzysiek Zacharski 3:37:30
Linda Phelan 3:38:29
Peter Donohoe 3:38:34

Last Saturday saw the club host Round 2 of the Juvenile league at our own track and thankfully the rain stayed away for the majority of the day. The club are now in 2nd place behind Kildare AC in the standings with 1 round to go.

In the younger ranks, Amelia Turley and Zara Russell dominated once again for the second weekend in a row taking 1st and 2nd place in the Under 8 girls sprints. The girls Under 10s had 3 in the first 7 placings in the 300m which was an excellent result for the kids in tough windy conditions. Daniel Connolly led from start to finish in the boys Under 11 300m whilst Vuyo Mosea showed everyone a clean set of heels in the Boys Under 13 200m. Adam Bradley and Daniel Costigan took 2nd and 3rd in the Boys under 11 200m, while Aobheann Russell ran brilliantly in the girls 200m to take 2nd place while she also took 1st place in the Turbo Jav.

There were plenty more impressive performance such as Amy taking first place in the Girls 800m, another excellent performance after her strong exhibition of running in round 1 last weekend.

The final round of the league takes place on Sunday in Newbridge at 2pm so I'd ask as many of our athletes as possible to come out in force to push Kildare AC all the way for 1st place.

Round 1 of the Juvenile league took place on Saturday 7th April with some excellent performances from many of our younger athletes across track and field events. Zara Russell and Amelia Turley dominated the under 8 girls 60m and 200m claiming 1st and 2nd in both, while Ethan Newman Smith coasted home to win the 200m boys under 8s  sprint. Ella Newman also performed very well in the under 11 girls sprints while we had 5 girls in the final of the Under 10s girls 100m. Ava Connors took 2nd in the Under 13 girls 600m with Rachel Kearns taking 3rd, while Vuyo Mosea won the under 13s Long Jump. Daniel Connolly took 3rd in Turbo Jav and won the final of the boys under 11 sprints. A very solid start to the league campaign, with round 2 this coming Saturday 14th at our own track in Celbrodge.

Another very successful day for Celbridge AC. seniors at the senior county road race at the weekend; Both the women and men’s team won the Senior County Road Championships.
Ladies winning team: Lauren Tinkler, Elaine McDonnell, Linda Phelan & Teresa O'Reilly 
Men’s winning team: Conor Burke, Barry Murphy, Stephen Conroy & Philip Niland. 
In the race overall, Barry Murphy ran second fastest in the men’s & Lauren Tinkler ran second fastest in the women’s.
Martin Hoare achieved huge success in the Rotterdam Marathon, he achieved a New PB at 2:25.28. He came 30th overall and also was the 3rd Irish man across the line & has set a new club record. Christy Maloney 2:59.24 & Stephen Coller 3:00.49 also successfully ran the Rotterdam Marathon. 

The national indoor season came to a close on Saturday with the relay finals; U.19 boys making final and U.18 boys making the final and taking Silver, well done to all lads, you worked very hard for them results and deserve credit for what you have achieved