Kenya 5k results

Kenya 5k start

Kenya 5k start

Brendan Hession and Mary Gleeson (both Mayo AC) were convincing winners of the 6th Kenya 5k held in ideal conditions on Tuesday evening.

Prizes were presented to the race winners by special guest Aoife Beston, from Claremorris. Aoife was a silver medalist at the recent Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles.

Eddie Sweeney from the local race committee thanked Aoife and all associated with organising the event. Thanks to Kevin Griffiths for photos. Results file below.

Summary results (Mayo AC unless stated)

Men
1 Brendan Hession  17:44; 2 Sean Murphy 18:19; 3 Michael McNeela 18:45

o40: Kevin O’Malley (Ballyheane) 20:04;  o50
Michael Sweeney 19:50

Women
1 Mary Gleeson, 19:04; 2 Irene Gorman (Crusaders AC) 19:22; 3 Kathy Gleeson (Claremorris) 19:31

o40 Angela O’Connor 21:30; o50 Una McGrath 26:58

results pdf Kenya 5k 2015 (1)

First three: Sean Murphy 2nd, Brendan Hession 1st, Michael McNeela 3rd

First three: Sean Murphy 2nd, Brendan Hession 1st, Michael McNeela 3rd

First three women

First three women: l-r Irene Gorman 2nd, Mary Gleeson 1st, Kathy Gleeson 3rd

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