At the All Ireland Senior Indoor Championships in Belfast last week end athletes from Waterford clubs were very much in the picture and they came home with four gold three silver and two bronze medals. Once again Kelly Proper Ferrybank A.C. had an outstanding week end as she retained both of her titles. On Saturday she won the Long Jump for the fifth year in succession with a distance of 6.35 metres which was some way below her record of 6.62 metres and another up and coming Ferrybank athlete Nicola Power was third with a personal best of 5.70 metres Then on Sunday Kelly had to call on all her great competitive spirit to win the 200 metres final in 24.14 seconds and she was pressed all the way by another Ferrybank athlete Niamh Whelan who was literally inches behind in second spot. Earlier Niamh set a personal best in the 60 metres semi final of 7.48 seconds and took the bronze medal in the final in a time of 7.50 seconds,she was the holder of the title. Mairead Murphy now with U.C.D. was second in the 60 metres hurdles final in 8.62 seconds, another athlete to take a silver medal was Billy Ryan from Ferrybank in the ( B ) 400 metres final in 49.12 seconds he missed out on a place in the (A ) final by just one place on Saturday.. One of the performances of the week end came in the women's 3000 metres walk when Susanna Malikova, West Waterford achieved the second fastest time in the world this year when winning the event in 12 minutes 36.43 seconds and young Kate Veale also from West Waterford was a fine third in 13minutes 18 .44 seconds after being in second position for most of the race and she may have went off a little too fast early on but will have benefited from the experience gained. In the men's 5000 metres walk Jamie Costin West Waterford was third with a very good performance in a time of 19 minutes 48.73 seconds just a second behind the second athlete home..Other West Waterford athletes who competed there and who did well were Thomas Houlihan fourth in the Pole Vault with 4.50 metres, his sister Lisa fifth in the women's Pole Vault with 2.80 metres, James Ledingham was just one place away from making the 800 metres final he ran 1 minute 56.74 seconds and Ravis Zakis had a p.b. of 8 minutes 45.43 seconds in the 3000 metres although unplaced and Liam Houlihan was unplaced in the Pole vault

Munster Juvenile Indoors

On Saturday and Sunday last in Nenagh at the Munster under 9 to 13 Indoor championships there were several winners from Waterford.. Top performer was Anne Corcoran in the under 12 section as she won three titles the Long and High Jumps and Shot Putt, Amy Harrison won the u 13 Long jump and Tadg Brennan the 600 metres u 13., Grace Kervick was second in the u 9 Long jump and also second were the girls u12 relay team.Third placings went to Tom Gallagher u 10, 300 m and Long Jump, Dylan Kearns u 13 Hurdles, Cormac Mc Cann, u13 Long jump, Fiona Eboko u10 300 m, Orla O'Brien u 12 Shot putt ,Girls u 11 Relay and boy's u 13 Relay and all of these from Ferrybank.For Tramore Denise O'Connor won the u 13 Hurdles and was second in the Long Jump, Shane Monagle was second in the 60 metres u 10 and the Boys relay team U 11 were second also. An Ghaeltacht had a win with Ciaran O'Maoilean u 12 Shot putt and third placings by Emma Hallahan u12 Long Jump and Liam Reilly u 13 600m.