1977-06-14 Irish Universities Representative Matches

Championship	IUAA Representative
Venue	Belfield
Date	1977-06-14
Host	UCD
Note	The combined strengths of Irish Universities, Scottish Universities, Birmingham University and a BLE Selection, together with international athletes for an invitational 3000m sponsored by Roadstone, converged on Belfield for the inaugural athletics meeting on the first tartan track in Ireland. The all-weather track cost £160,000. It was formally opened by the Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave. He fired a real .38 revolver to start the first event of the evening meeting, the 3000m steeplechase. It was his last shot in the General Election of 1977 which took place the following day, which resulted in a crushing defeat of the FG/Labour coalition. The almost 4,000 spectators were treated to three Irish native records in the 3000m, pole vault and discus and a Northern Ireland native record in the 400m hurdles during this competitive and entertaining fixture. As the evening progressed a cooling wind increased in velocity. Eamonn Coghlan chopped almost six seconds of Jerry Kiernan's month-old 3000m record. The 43-year-old Corkman Len Braham added 2.5 ft to his ten-day-old national figure. Liam Hennessy, an 18-year-old from Tipperary, leapt to the top of Irish Pole-vaulting.

Table of Contents:

• Points: Overall Male Female
• Medal Tables: Male Female
• Female: 100m 100mH 400m 1500m LJ HJ SP
• Male: 100m 110mH 200m 400m 400mH 800m 1500m 3000m 3000mSC 5000m 4x100m 4x400m LJ TJ HJ PV SP DT JTo

Points

Overall Points

Rank	College	Male	Female	Total
1	BLE Select	156	68	224
2	Birmingham	79	8	87
3	IUAA	55		55
4	SU	14	36	50
5	Ireland
6	England

Male

Rank	College	1 0 0 m	1 1 0 m H	2 0 0 m	4 0 0 m	4 0 0 m H	8 0 0 m	1 5 0 0 m	3 0 0 0 m	3 0 0 0 m S C	5 0 0 0 m	4 x 1 0 0 m	4 x 4 0 0 m	L J	T J	H J	P V	S P	D T	J T o	Total
1	BLE Select	11	7	5	12			7		9	12	10	6	11	9	9	12	12	12	12	156
2	Birmingham		4	4		11	7	9		7		6	8	5	7	7	4				79
3	IUAA	5		7	4	5					4	8	10					4	4	4	55
4	SU		5				9														14
5	England
6	Ireland

Female

Rank	College	1 0 0 m	1 0 0 m H	4 0 0 m	1 5 0 0 m	L J	H J	S P	Total
1	BLE Select	9	9	9	12	5	12	12	68
2	SU	7	7	7		7	4	4	36
3	Birmingham				4	4			8

Medal Tables

Male

Rank	College	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	BLE Select	11	10	6	27
2	Birmingham	5	3	6	14
3	IUAA	2	3	5	10
4	Ireland	1		1	2
5	SU		2	1	3
6	England		1		1

Female

Rank	College	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	SU	4		2	6
2	BLE Select	3	7	3	13
3	Birmingham			2	2

Female

100m

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Fiona Macaulay	SU	11.70	7
2	Ruth Algar	BLE Select	11.80	5
3	Michelle Walsh	BLE Select	11.80	4

100m Hurdles

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Fiona Macaulay	SU	14.20	7
2	Ruth Algar	BLE Select	14.50	5
3	Maria Hetherington	BLE Select	15.30	4

400m

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Paula Lloyd	SU	55.80	7
2	Mary Appleby	BLE Select	56.80	5
3	B. Waters	BLE Select	58.60	4

1500m

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Jean Appleby	BLE Select	4:26.90	7
2	Vera Duffy	BLE Select	4:30.20	5
3	G. Clarke	Birmingham	4:33.10	4

Long Jump

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Myra Nimmo	SU	6.01	7
2	Kathleen Glavin	BLE Select	5.66	5
3	P. Bruce	Birmingham	5.64	4

High Jump

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Audrey Long	BLE Select	5′7″	7
2	Marjorie Adams	BLE Select	5′3¼″	5
3	A. Johnstone	SU	5′3¼″	4

Shot Putt

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Marita Walton	BLE Select	43′10″	7
2	Gay Hogan	BLE Select	40′8½″	5
3	D. Hood	SU	30′3¼″	4

Male

100m

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points	Note
1	Joseph "Joe" Ryan	BLE Select	10.70	7	Strong following wind
2	James "Jim" Christie	IUAA	10.80	5
3	Ciaran Coakley	BLE Select	11.00	4

110m Hurdles

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Sean Power	BLE Select	15.40	7
2	R. Ellis	SU	15.50	5
3	M. Gill	Birmingham	15.50	4

200m

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	James "Jim" Christie	IUAA	21.80	7
2	Joseph "Joe" Ryan	BLE Select	21.90	5
3	B. Dover	Birmingham	23.10	4

400m

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Paul Duffy	BLE Select	48.70	7
2	Tim Crowe	BLE Select	48.90	5
3	Padraic Jordan	IUAA	49.10	4

400m Hurdles

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points	Note
1	Steve James	Birmingham	51.50	7
2	Clive Beattie	IUAA	52.10	5	Northern Irish Record
3	M. Gill	Birmingham	54.20	4

800m

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Pete Lewis	Birmingham	1:50.40	7
2	D. Spalding	SU	1:53.70	5
3	B. Dickson	SU	1:53.90	4

1500m

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Liam O'Brien	BLE Select	3:53.70	7
2	Steve Emson	Birmingham	3:54.90	5
3	G. Parsons	Birmingham	3:55.10	4

3000m

Final

Invitational 3000m

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Note
1	Eamonn Coghlan	Ireland	7:50.10	Irish Record
2	David Black	England	7:51.00
3	Gerry Deegan	Ireland	7:52.60
4	Ray Smedley	England	7:56.40
5	John Tracey	Ireland	8:05.00
6	Jerry Kiernan	Ireland	8:05.00
	Brendan Hilliard	Ireland	DNF

3000m Steeplechase

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Andy Holden	Birmingham	8:52.10	7
2	Pat O'Riordan	BLE Select	8:55.60	5
3	Pat O'Callaghan	BLE Select	9:20.70	4

5000m

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Neil Cusack	BLE Select	14:05.10	7
2	Ray Treacy	BLE Select	14:10.40	5
3	Gerry Finnegan	IUAA	14:19.20	4

4 x 100m Relay

Final

Place	Leg	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	1	A.N. Other	BLE Select	42.40	10
1	2	A.N. Other	BLE Select	42.40	10
1	3	A.N. Other	BLE Select	42.40	10
1	4	A.N. Other	BLE Select	42.40	10
2	1	A.N. Other	IUAA	42.70	8
2	2	A.N. Other	IUAA	42.70	8
2	3	A.N. Other	IUAA	42.70	8
2	4	A.N. Other	IUAA	42.70	8
3	1	A.N. Other	Birmingham	42.80	6
3	2	A.N. Other	Birmingham	42.80	6
3	3	A.N. Other	Birmingham	42.80	6
3	4	A.N. Other	Birmingham	42.80	6

4 x 400m Relay

Final

Place	Leg	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	1	A.N. Other	IUAA	3:18.00	10
1	2	A.N. Other	IUAA	3:18.00	10
1	3	A.N. Other	IUAA	3:18.00	10
1	4	A.N. Other	IUAA	3:18.00	10
2	1	A.N. Other	Birmingham	3:19.00	8
2	2	A.N. Other	Birmingham	3:19.00	8
2	3	A.N. Other	Birmingham	3:19.00	8
2	4	A.N. Other	Birmingham	3:19.00	8
3	1	A.N. Other	BLE Select	3:19.80	6
3	2	A.N. Other	BLE Select	3:19.80	6
3	3	A.N. Other	BLE Select	3:19.80	6
3	4	A.N. Other	BLE Select	3:19.80	6

Long Jump

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Pat Shine	BLE Select	7.02	7
2	D. Anderson	Birmingham	6.73	5
3	Andy Coleman	BLE Select	6.67	4

Triple Jump

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	David Katale	Birmingham	47′6″	7
2	Pat Shine	BLE Select	46′1″	5
3	Andy Coleman	BLE Select	45′7″	4

High Jump

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Colin Boreham	Birmingham	2.00	7
2	Richie Fallon	BLE Select	2.00	5
3	Kevin Martyn	BLE Select	1.95	4

Pole Vault

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points	Note
1	Liam Hennessy	BLE Select	13′10″	7	Irish Record
2	Chris Berkeley	BLE Select	13′5½″	5
3	P. Trammel	Birmingham	12′5½″	4

Shot Putt

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Gerry McEvoy	BLE Select	52′8½″	7
2	Eugene Diviney	BLE Select	50′8″	5
3	Oliver Anderson	IUAA	39′5¼″	4

Discus

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points	Note
1	Len Braham	BLE Select	175′11″	7	Irish Record
2	Gerry McEvoy	BLE Select	142′8½″	5
3	Oliver Anderson	IUAA	130′5″	4

Javelin (old)

Final

Place	Athlete	College	Mark	Points
1	Pat Moore	BLE Select	198′10″	7
2	Derek Casey	BLE Select	196′11″	5
3	John Sheehan	IUAA	171′3″	4

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