European Masters 2025 - Nicolosi, Sicily, Italy
Forum Messages
| Author | Date | Message |
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| Brendan Lawlor | Apr 4 2025, 12:51pm | The European and World Masters Hillrunning Championships have now been listed as events on the IMRA calendar. Thank you to Jeff Swords for this. We will add further information in the coming weeks and there are two very active Whats app groups to discuss travel logistics, accommodation, team formation, training etc. Please contact me on 0h87two432798 if you want to be included and to find out more information. We have had very strong Irish representation at these Championships over the past few years, with dozens of medals won across multiple age categories. We hope to continue this again this year so please get in contact if you are interested.. YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU!! |
| Brendan Lawlor | May 26 2025, 10:17am | Best of luck to all the Irish Masters athletes competing in Sicily at the European Masters Hillrunning Championships next weekend. Many athletes have already started arriving and early reports indicate it will be another fantastic trip with hopefully a few medals too ! |
| Brendan Lawlor | Jun 3 2025, 9:04am | Our Masters athletes were in action at the European Masters in Sicily last weekend with some amazing performances. Becky Quinn made up for her injury disappointment at last years World Masters by winning two F50 Gold medals, in both the Classic Up/Down 9km race and the Long 29km race. Becky also led the W50 team (herself, Karen Crean and Ann Marie Kenny) to a team bronze medal in the Classic race. Gerard Maloney won an individual bronze medal in the M65 category of the same Classic race and again led the M65 team (himself, Martin McDonald, who was also the Team Manager and Gerard Maloney) to an M65 team bronze. In the very challenging Vertical 4km race, Matt Alexander continued his fine form from last year to win the Gold medal in the M70 category. Several other Irish athletes competed across the three races of the weekend and congratulations and well done to them all. And then to top it off Mount Etna erupted on Monday after all the running activity on its lava coated slopes, providing all the competitors with more amazing photos and memories. Next up is the World Masters in Meduno, Italy at the end of August where we expect strong Irish representation again across all age categories ! |
| Sorcha Loughnane | Jun 3 2025, 9:19pm | Brilliant performances all round! Well done Becky and the whole team out there, wonderful inspiration for all us mature athletes! |
| Brendan Lawlor | Jun 3 2025, 10:49pm | CORRECTION The M65 team who won a bronze medal in the Classic race were Gerard Maloney, Martin McDonald and Gerard Down |
| David Dinsmore | Jun 5 2025, 11:53am | It was a great weekend in Nicolosi with an amazing performance from the Irish team which finished 9th in the medal table with three gold and three bronze. In any other sport RTE would have had camera crews at the airport to welcome home the athletes. We were up against huge teams from hosts Italy, who topped the medals table, Switzerland, Germany,etc. To perform as we did against such opposition is a fantastic achievement. But I can't help thinking that with a bit more recognition we could achieve so much more. Perhaps we could start by putting the results of the races up on the Results section of this site? All we've had so far has been Brendan's excellent summary here on the Forum. It was a great experience and I would recommend it to any Irish trail runner. As Matt showed in the Vertical, there are medals to be won, even if you have to crawl up a 4km sandhill to get them! |
| Brendan Lawlor | Jun 5 2025, 3:54pm | Hi David Here is a link to the results https://www.endu.net/en/events/emorrc/results |
| David Dinsmore | Jun 7 2025, 5:34pm | Thanks Brendan but I already knew the results. My point was that it would be worth posting them in the Results section of this website |
