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Ferrybank athletes break four junior records

3 July 2006

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Athletes from the Ferrybank club in Waterford broke four Irish Junior record over the weekend. Mairead Murphy, competing in Monzon Spain, set new figures for the heptathlon recording 5049 points the first time an Irish junior athlete has exceeded the 5000 point barrier. Recording personal best marks in the high jump, shot and javelin, head winds in the hurdles and 200m probably cost mairead the qualifying mark for the forthcoming World Junior Championships. In Tullamore at the National Junior Championships, Kelly Proper won the long jump, with her 6.08m bringing her to the top of the the Junior records list. The Ferrybank A.C. relay teams also rewrote the records when winning the 4 X 100m ( Niamh Whelan, Kelly Proper , Mairead Deevy and Haley Murphy) taking almost half a second off the old mark, while the 4 X 400m relay team of Kalyn Sheehan, Mairead Deevy, Mary O Connor and Jessie Barr demoilished the old Irish record taking nearly 4 seconds off the old mark recording 3 mins and 53 seconds.

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