From Glengarriff to Rosapenna, Darragh McElhinney comes of age with first senior cross-country title

It was super-impressive too, one of the finest finishes to this esteemed cross-country championship in years, eclipsing a similarly exciting climax to the senior women’s race, where Sarah Healy, like McElhinney running for UCD AC, also still under-23, kicked away from Ciara Mageean over the last 800m of their 8km race, eventually winning in winter daylight by 15 seconds.

For McElhinney, who was second outright in last year’s European under-23 race staged at Abbotstown, leading the Irish team to gold, the prospect of going one individual place better in Italy next month is now his sole motivation. It won’t be easy, defending under-23 champion Charles Hicks from Great Britain, also still young enough for the grade, won the American NCAA Cross-Country on Saturday, the first athlete representing Stanford University to win that race, first staged in 1938.

Indeed Gidey who finished sixth in the European 10,000m in Munich in August, helped ensure Clonliffe Harriers won back the senior men’s team title, won last year by Dundrum South Dublin. The top three in each race, in the three categories, all gained automatic selection for Turin Dublin City Harriers won the team title ahead of defending champions Letterkenny AC, who had Ann-Marie McGlynn in fourth, just weeks after finishing second best Irish woman in the Dublin Marathon.

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