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Top national athletics awards for Boyce and Jennings

written by Chris McNulty November 28, 2019
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TWO DONEGAL athletes have won top awards at the 2019 National Athletics Awards.

Brendan Boyce was named as endurance athlete of the year with CaitrĂ­ona Jennings the ultra runner of the year.

Boyce finished a remarkable sixth in the men’s 50k race walk at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships.

In punishing Doha temperatures, the Finn Valley AC man put in the performance of his life.

The Milford native came home sixth, famously moonwalking across the line.  

Letterkenny woman Jennings, who competed in the marathon at the 2012 Olympics, finished third in the world’s oldest and largest ultramarathon.

In June, Jennings came third in the 2019 Comrades Marathon in South Africa.

It was Jennings’ first ever ultramarathon and she finished in 6:24:12.

Top national athletics awards for Boyce and Jennings was last modified: November 28th, 2019 by Chris McNulty
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Chris McNulty

Author of 'Boxing In Donegal: A History (2021)' - the definitive history of the sport in County Donegal - and 'Relentless: A Race Through Time', the 2019 memoir of former Irish Athletics Team Manager Patsy McGonagle. From St Johnston and now based in Letterkenny, Chris was a nominee for NUJ Sports Journalist of the Year in 2010. Honoured by the Donegal Boxing Board in 2016 for his coverage on the sport.

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