Sprint double for McSweeney

AILISH McSWEENEY (Leevale) recorded her second double in a week when she won both sprints at the Munster senior track and field championships at the CIT Track in Cork yesterday where Donnacha O’Mahony (East Cork) rolled back the years to reclaim the 5,000m title.

It might have been a third sprint double in a row for Ailish McSweeney were it not for the fact that she was edged out in a desperately close finish to the 100m at the recent AAI international games in Navan where she went on to win the 200m.

Yesterday she was deprived of what looked like a fast time in the 100m when a downpour caused a problem with the timing equipment but when the race was run again she got a time of 12.11 to once more finish ahead of her clubmates, Orla Coughlan and Donna Hosford before going on to win the 200m in 24.45 and repeat the double of the county championships a week earlier.