Sara Moore impresses with sub 5 minute mile in America!

Sara Moore continues to impress in USA:

Omagh lady Sara Moore (Oklahoma City University) continued to impress in America with her first ever sub 5 minute mile clocking this weekend (Saturday 17th June 2017).

Competing in a high quality field at the ‘Go Mile’ road race in Arkansas, Sara recorded an excellent 4:59.97, narrowly missing out on a podium place when taking 4th place; it was enough to see Sara take the top prize in her age category.

This summer, Sara completed four years of proudly representing Oklahoma City University, during which, she enjoyed some exceptional performances.  The rising star picked up an outstanding 12 All American honours and two National Championship gold medals (in the 4 x 800m and DMR – Distance Medley Relay).

On top of this, Sara also holds Oklahoma City University records for the 1000m (2:51) and the 1500m (4:29), and was part of the record breaking 4 x 800m (9:11) and DMR (11:51) teams.

Sara will now enjoy the summer in Oklahoma City, before returning to OCU to continue her studies in August.

In other news…

Derry Track Club’s Conor McIlveen claimed personal bests over 400m and 800m whilst racing at the Berlin Open Para Athletics Grand Prix in Germany this weekend (Saturday 17th June 2017).  Competing in the T38 category, Conor clocked 58.79 for 400m and 2:13.25 for 800m; both performances led to category wins for Conor.