Ireland hosts 7. International Youth Cup on June, 24.
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The seventh holding of the International Youth Cup takes place on June 24th in Glendalough in Ireland.
Glendalough is an old Irish monastic site and many of the competitors will be praying that their turn has come to mount the prize-winner's podium particularly the countries who have already departed from the European football championships!
Nine countries will contest the event with 36 runners in the boy's race and 33 runners in the girl's race: Bulgaria, England, Italy, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Wales and hosting, Country Ireland. , ," "
Three of the top eight from 2011 will be contesting the boy's race.
Konstantin Galiullin (RUS) will be hoping to better his silver medal but Nadir Cavagna (ITA) who was sixth in Slovenia and Tim Kovacic (SLO) who was eight will have other ideas. Patryk Lachowski (POL) was twelfth in 2011 and he has ran 8:59 for 3000m. The host country will be pinning their hopes on British and Irish under 16 champion Killian Mooney and Cillian O'Donovan who won the Irish schools 3000m championships in 8:54. Poland, Russia and Italy was the finishing order in 2011 and these countries are all sure to be prominent again as are the Welsh and Scottish.
The girl's race looks more open. Only Clare McCarthy (IRL) finished in the top ten in 2011 and she recently won the Irish trials and competed in the European junior cross-country championships in 2011.Weronika Pyzik (POL) was a silver medallist in the Polish cross-country championships and the course should suit her. Russia won from Slovenia in 2011 and, while Slovenia may not be so strong away from home, the Russians with two teams will be hard to beat. Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Scotland, and Wales all field full teams and will be dreaming of a place on the podium. In a race with all three runners to count, there is no recovery for a bad run or for a heroic first kilometre but then again champions must take a risk!
WMRA President, Bruno Gozzelino, and WMRA Secretary, Bashir Hussain, also WMRA Delegate to the event, and some other WMRA Council members (Raimondo Balicco and Tomo Sarf) will be present at the race.
News by Gerry Brady
Photos:
on front page:
- map of the venue (Glendalough)
on second page:
- Konstantin Galiullin (RUS),
- Clare McCarthy (IRL)."
Glendalough is an old Irish monastic site and many of the competitors will be praying that their turn has come to mount the prize-winner's podium particularly the countries who have already departed from the European football championships!
Nine countries will contest the event with 36 runners in the boy's race and 33 runners in the girl's race: Bulgaria, England, Italy, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Wales and hosting, Country Ireland. , ," "
Three of the top eight from 2011 will be contesting the boy's race.
The girl's race looks more open. Only Clare McCarthy (IRL) finished in the top ten in 2011 and she recently won the Irish trials and competed in the European junior cross-country championships in 2011.
WMRA President, Bruno Gozzelino, and WMRA Secretary, Bashir Hussain, also WMRA Delegate to the event, and some other WMRA Council members (Raimondo Balicco and Tomo Sarf) will be present at the race.
News by Gerry Brady
Photos:
on front page:
- map of the venue (Glendalough)
on second page:
- Konstantin Galiullin (RUS),
- Clare McCarthy (IRL)."