Connolly to get a shot at short course event

ROBERT CONNOLLY is set to join Alasdair Cragg in the short course race at the world cross-country championships in Brussels in two weeks and his Dundrum South Dublin clubmate, Maria McCambridge, will be entered as an individual in the women’s short course event.

After the National championships it was decided to enter full teams only in the long course races. But all that changed when Cragg expressed a desire to compete as an individual in the men’s short course race.

And Robert Connolly, a bronze medallist in the 5,000m at last year’s European under-23 championships, laid claims to a place in the short course race when he outsprinted Cathal Lombard in a thrilling finish to the short course championship at ALSAA on Sunday.