Donore Harriers

Athletic club

Donore Harriers is an athletics club founded in 1893. It is located in Chapelizod, Dublin.[1]

Originally based in South Circular Road and then Islandbridge, the club moved to a modern clubhouse opposite the Chapelizod Gate to the Phoenix Park in 1993.

A new 300m polyurethane running track and athletics field was built on the club grounds in the autumn of 2007.[2]

Olympic Games representatives

  • 1948 London: J.P. Reardon, C. Clancy
  • 1956 Melbourne: E. Kinsella
  • 1960 Rome: Bertie Messitt, W. Dunne
  • 1964 Tokyo: B. Clifford, T. O’Riordan
  • 1976 Montreal: Jim McNamara, E. Coghlan
  • 1980 Moscow: E. Coghlan, S. Egan
  • 1996 Atlanta: Roman Linscheid

European Athletics Championships representatives

  • 1954: Berne: E. Kinsella, B. O’Reilly
  • 1958: Stockholm: B. Messitt
  • 1962: Belgrade: B. Messitt
  • 1966: Budapest: T. O’Riordan, J. McNamara
  • 1974: Rome: E. Coghlan
  • 1978: Prague: E. Coghlan
  • 1982: Athens: S. Egan
  • 1990: Split: V. McGovern
  • 1998: Budapest: R. Linscheid
  • 2014: Zurich: J. Travers[1][3]

See also

  • Brendan Hackett, a member[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Club History". Donore Harriers. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Donore Harriers Development Report |". Athletics Ireland. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Athletics Ireland: Irish Caps" (PDF). Athletics Ireland.
  4. ^ "Hackett appointed Irish athletics chief". Irish Examiner. 18 October 2005.

External links

  • Official website of Donore Harriers