Proud day for Trim AC
Posted by Ciaran Tobin on 20 February 2014
It was a proud and historic day fro Trim Athletic Club on Sunday when teenager Harry Purcell followed up on his recent national junior 800m victory with a 1m53.67 run earning his third place in the national senior indoor championship.The experienced Niall Tuohy, Ferrybank, won in a time of 1m52.24 with UCD runner Karl Griffin taking the runner up slot. The tussle between Purcell and Clonliffe Harrier, Kristaps Valters set the arena buzzing as the Trim teenager stood his ground in two close encounters of jostling from his senior opponent to see him off in the finishing straight to claim Trim Athletic Clubs first ever national senior individual medal. On Saturday Harry recorded the best qualifying time when he won the fasted heat of the day in an impressive 1m54.77.
Club colleague Shane Aston who is developing into a fine decathlete qualified for the final of the 60m hurdles where he ran a personal best time of 8s81. He also got in some valuable long jump action when recording 6m18.
