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World University Games - Silver for Eileen O'Keeffe

10 August 2007

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Silver for Eileen O'Keeffe Eileen O'Keeffe won silver for Ireland in the hammer at the World University Games in Bangkok today. She took the lead with her first throw of 67.97m, but was overtaken in the third round. She closed the gap to 28cm in the fourth round but that was as close as she could get. Well done Eileen. Ailis McSweeney qualified for the semi finals of the 100m, but Anna Boyle was eliminated Eileen O'Keeffe Hammer 1 Belarus BLR - PCHELNIK Darya 20/12/1980 68.74 X 66.89 68.74 65.44 67.18 X 2 Ireland IRL - O'KEEFFE Eileen 31/05/1981 68.46 67.97 X 61.95 68.46 67.27 65.04 3 Czech Republic CZE - LEDVINOVA Lenka 11/08/1985 66.41 65.23 65.66 64.27 X 64.40 66.41 4 France FRA - BAMBARA Laetitia 30/03/1984 65.34 64.08 65.34 X 61.27 59.98 X 100m Wind-0.9 1 Finland FIN - MANNINEN Johanna 04/04/1980 0.158 11.36 FS1 Q 2 Lithuania LTU - DAGELYTE Audra 26/03/1981 0.158 11.60 Q 3 Ukraine UKR - SHEPETYUK Iryna 13/02/1982 0.179 11.69 Q 4 Croatia CRO - GOLUB Maja 10/05/1985 0.197 11.73 Q 5 Thailand THA - SANRAT Nongnuch 26/08/1993 0.201 11.98 6 Ireland IRL - BOYLE Anna 29/03/1983 0.163 12.03 100m Wind-0.5 1 Russian Federation RUS - MEKHTI-zade Yuna 25/04/1986 0.194 11.61 Q 2 Lithuania LTU - LINGYTE Edita 17/01/1980 0.182 11.83 Q 3 South Africa RSA - STEWART Cindy 14/11/1985 0.143 11.88 Q 4 Ireland IRL - MCSWEENEY Ailis 04/10/1983 0.152 11.92 FS1 Q SB

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