His time takes nearly two minutes off the previous national record and over three minutes off his personal best time.

The Kenyan clocks a time of one hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds to make marathon history.

O'Connor finished second in the 800m event to secure the bronze medal.

The Dundalk woman competes in the Pentathlon and finished fifth in the 60-meter hurdles, fourth in the High Jump, and has just completed the shot put. 

The semi-final was won by Australia’s Peter Bol in 1:46.21 ahead of Japan’s Allon Tatsunami Clay (1:46.47) and Jamaica’s Navasky Anderson (1:46.65).

Cian McHale and Jordan Flynn both hit the net in Mayo's 2-17 to 22-points victory over Armagh.

The 28-year-old from Dublin won the T-13 200 metres final in a time of 24.7-1 seconds.

Jack Raftery, Sophie Becker, Conor Kelly and Sharlene Mawdsley were sixth in their race

In searing heat where the local temperature registered at 31 degrees, the All-Ireland championships in Tullamore proved to be successful for Carlow’s juveniles last weekend.

Ciara Mageean missed out on the Paris Olympics due to an Achilles tendon issue.

Sam Mulroy scored 1-7 to give the Wee County their first provincial title since 1957.

The 21.1-kilometre course travelled through the north side of the city and along the coast road before wrapping up on Guild Street

Son Heung-min scored in the 84th minute to make things equal between the two sides. Manchester United will go up against Arsenal from 4:30pm

The Limerick woman came fourth in a season's best time of 7.92 seconds

Lavin goes into the semi-finals on Friday at lunchtime.

Tinryland sprinter, Adam Murphy, is in a rich vein of form. On Sunday at Abbottstown, he clocked a personal best of 21. 54 to take gold beating Titans AC sprinter, Emmanuel Akinrolie into second place in the Leinster athletic indoor championships.

Sive O'Toole was among the golds for St Laurence O'Toole AC as she ran a Championship record in the 60m

 The South Leinster cross country championship took place on Thursday 23rd January in Carlow Hurling Club. St. Leo’s athletes garnered quite a haul of medals.

Brian Kirwan was one of Carlow's best athletes but behind the scenes he was battling a gambling addiction that made him lose almost everything

Padraig Webb took the men's event while Leah Lawlor won the women's race at the Carlow Cross Country Championships

Adeleke was part of the 4x400m mixed relay team who won gold at the European championships, and helped the 4x400m women's team to silver.

1984 Olympic silver medalist John Treacy and Minister for Sport Thomas Byrne were among those present at a gala event to open the new track at St Laurence O'Toole AC

Olympic silver medalist John Treacy will be the special as the new full sized track at St Laurence O'Toole is officially opened on Friday morning.

It’s not every day you show up to training and find an Olympian make a surprise visit to the track and a Bronze Olympian medalist from Paris none the less.

The race was won by Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino

Rebecca Cheptegei (33) suffered burns to more than 75% of her body in the September 1st attack and died four days later.

The European relay medalist emerged victorious in the Women’s 400-metres at the Galà dei Castelli in Switzerland, with a time of 51.35 seconds.

Ireland won two bronze medals in a matter of minutes on Tuesday.

Liverpool will look to build on last weekend's win over Ipswich when they take on Brentford in their first home game today.

Sharlene Mawdsley's strong finish meant there was next to nothing at the finish line between the top three finishers. 

Letsile Tebogo has become the first African to win the Olympic 200m title

Kate O'Connor is competing in the Heptathlon.

The American revealed he thought Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson had beaten him to 100 metres gold.

Ironically, Marcus Lawler is in the shape of his life, as proven by running a 100m PB last Sunday, at the time of the Olympics but early season injuries cost him his place in Paris

Golfer Lowry and 100 metres hurdler Lavin are both set to appear in their second Olympics

The County Carlow athlete, who also plays football for Old Leighlin, got off to a great start

Adeleke won mixed 4x400m relay gold, women's 4x400m relay silver and individual 400m silver in a terrific week in Rome at the European Championships

Mageean previously won silver in the 1,500m at the European championships two years ago

Manchester City came from behind to defeat their rivals.