2016 Reviewed – Duathlon Champs & National Series

West Clare Duathlon

Duathlon Season – Look Back

The 2016 duathlon season was already completed before April had even passed this year and examining the results from both the Duathlon National Series and the Duathlon National Champs, it was possible to tell at that stage which athletes were going to be on form for the rest of the year.

This year’s Duathlon National Series was made up of eight rounds, with scoring based off each athlete’s best two results, plus their scores from the National Duathlon Championships, where bonus points were on offer.

Calm Conditions

Despite perceptions of winter racing, conditions were actually calm and dry for almost all the races in the Duathlon National Series this year with the one exception being the National Championships on the race track at Mondello Park, where the weather meant the eventual winners had to overcome rain and hailstones, as well as their competitors to take their titles.

The podiums from Mondello – where for the first time a national duathlon champs was run as a draft legal race – were a good reflection of form with the men’s and women’s overall winners Bryan McCrystal and Heather Foley both going on to have dominant seasons in triathlon. Second placed in the men’s champs, Cian O’Reilly went on to win the duathlon national series while Lorraine Carey took second in both the duathlon champs and the duathlon national series.

We would also be seeing a lot more of Carolyn Hayes and Kieran Jackson, who occupied the third step of the podium at the national champs, as both athletes went on to be two of the strongest competitors in the Super Series later in the summer. 

Men's Podium Mondello 2016

Duathlon National Championships – Men’s Podium

1 Bryan McCrystal
2 Cian O’Reilly
3 Kieran Jackson

Women's Podium Mondello 2016

Duathlon National Championships – Women’s Podium

1 Heather Foley
2 Lorraine Carey
3 Carolyn Hayes

Connemara Duathlon Start

Duathlon National Series – Men’s Overall Podium 

1 Cian O’Reilly
2 Chris Mintern
3 Gavin Corey

Ashford Duathlon 2016 1

Duathlon National Series – Women’s Overall  Podium 

1 Heather Foley
2 Lorraine Carey
3 Bronagh Adams

Duathlon Champs and National Series Awards

All category winners in the Duathlon National Champs and National Series will receive their medals at the Triathlon Ireland Awards night in Dublin’s Marker Hotel on November 26th. Tickets for the night have been selling strongly and the event is expected to sell out so don’t delay in purchasing yours.

Men's Start Mondello 2016

Duathlon National Championships – Men’s Age Group Winners

18- 19 1 Cillian Tierney
2 N/A
20-24 1 Cian O’Reilly
2 Kieran Jackson
3 Gavin Corey
25-29 1 N/A
30-34 1 John Greaney
2 Peter Tuohy
3 Brendan g Murphy
35-39 1 Bryan McCrystal
2 Liam Dunne
3 Noel Kavanagh
40-44 1 William Byrne
2 Brendan Buck
3 Jason Travers
45-49 1 Brian Mc Bride
2 Philip Smith
3 Alasdair Conway
50-54 1 Brian Cunningham
2 Allen Slevin
3 David Fagan
55-59 1 John joe Rogers
2 Paul Le Blanc
3 Liam O’Riain
60-64 1 N/A
65-69 1 Ed Smith

Women's Start Mondello 2016

Duathlon National Championships – Women’s Age Group Winners

18-19 1 N/A
20-24 1 N/A
25-29 1 Carolyn Maria Hayes
2 Barbara Dunne
3 Joanne Flanagan
30-34 1 Heather Foley
2 Lizanne Barnwall
3 Cathy Kenneally
35-39 1 Lorraine Carey
2 Bronagh Adams
3 Siobhan Murtagh
40-44 1 Geraldine Gill
2 Eilis Ni Dhuill
3 N/A
45-49 1 Marie Boyle
2 Denise Compton
3 Siobhan Forman
50-54 1 Hannah Shields
2 Hazel Craigie
3 Eimear Mathews
55-59 1 Majella Ní Chríocháin
2 N/A
3 N/A

Ashford Duathlon 2016 3

Duathlon National Series – Men’s Age Group Winners

20-24 1 Cian O’Reilly
2 Chris Mintern
3 Gavin Corey
25-29 1 N/A
30-34 1 John Greaney
2 Paul Magee
3 Austin Denis
35-39 1 Gerald Troy
2 John Whelan
3 Gavin Crawford
40-44 1 William Byrne
2 Jason Travers
3 Michael King
45-49 1 Alasdair Conway
2 Philip Smith
3 Brian McBride
50-54 1 John Joyce
2 Cathal Roarty
3 Allen Slevin
55-59 1 John Joe Rogers
2 Gary Moralee
3 Liam O’Riain
60-64 1 Ed Smith

Race Start Naas Duathlon Feb 2016 

Duathlon National Series – Women’s Age Group Winners

25-29 1 Barbara Dunne
2 Joanne Flanagan
3 Caoimhe Casey
30-34 1 Heather Foley
2 Cathy Kenneally
3 Lizanne Barnwall
35-39 1 Lorraine Carey
2 Bronagh Adams
3 Siobhan Murtagh
40-44 1 Geraldine Gill
2 N/A
3 N/A
45-49 1 Marie Boyle
2 Denise Compton
3 Nadine Gray
50-54 1 Hannah Shields
2 Hazel Craigie
3 Eimear Mathews
55-59 1 Majella Ni Chriochain
2 N/A
3 N/A

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