Con Doherty runs in European Cross Country

Congratulations to Con Doherty (Westport AC) who has been selected on the Irish Junior team competing in the European Cross Country Championships next Sundayin Belgrade, Serbia.

Con has run in a number of Mayo AC organised races in recent years – he won the 2012 Ballyhaunis 8k and the 2013 Kenya /Claremorris 5k. Irelands’s Fionnuala Britton will go for a European Cross Country hat-trick in Serbia after back-to-back individual women’s gold medals.

RTE two will show live coverage of both the senior men’s and women’s races with the broadcast starting at 12pm on Sunday December 8th. They will also show selective highlights of the junior and u23 races.

BBC 2 and BBC2 HD will also show live coverage from 12 noon.

2013 European Cross Country Championships Timetable (IRL time)

Women Junior 4km – 9:00am
Men Junior 6km – 9:45am
Women U23 6km – 10:30am
Men U23 8km – 11:19pm
Women Senior 8km 12:12pm
Senior Men 10km – 1:09pm

Live Stream Option

European athletics TV will be showing a live stream of all six races on Sunday, the stream will begin with the junior women’s race at 9am (IRL time).