Greene and Breathnach do the business at senior finals

IT was a golden weekend for the west at the National Senior Athletics Championships held over three days at the Morton Stadium, in Santry with Cillin Greene and Sean Breathnach of Galway City Harriers both striking gold. And the current rude health of Galway athletics was also confirmed by a host of other local medal successes.

The hugely talented Greene delivered in stunning fashion on Saturday to claim national gold over 400m. Greene ran a perfectly timed race to take the title in 46.38 seconds from three-time champion Chris O’Donnell of Sligo.

It was an enthralling battle between the duo in the home straight with Greene getting ahead in the final strides to take a well deserved Irish senior title. It was a one, two, three for Connacht athletics with Robert McDonnell, the young rising star of GCH sprinting, running the race of his life to hold on for bronze in a time of 47.19 seconds.

The electric 400m race was one of the highlights of the day, with Irish Olympic selectors keeping a watchful eye ahead of the upcoming picks for the mixed 4x 400m relay. Greene is now likely to be selected on the Olympic mixed relay squad, while McDonnell will also be in contention for a spot on the same squad after his superb season.

The evergreen Sean Breathnach continues to add to his already huge national medal collection as he claimed double gold and a bronze medal at the championships. The competitive GCH athlete won the Weight for Distance throw on Saturday, with a best of 8.23 metres, before adding the Weight for Height title on Sunday with 4.70 metres. He also claimed third in the shot putt despite injury preventing his use of the rotational technique.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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