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Wearing the Dooneen colours, St Enda’s Community School student, Emmanuel Sabayo or ‘Mani’ as he is known to most, won his first All Ireland title in the Junior Men’s combined events finals in Nenagh.
In one of Nenagh Indoor Stadium’s famous long cold days, Mani held out for his first All Ireland title, to win with a grand total 2809pts. This was 209 points ahead of his nearest challenger, Clarence Kennedy of St. Brendan’s AC, based in Ardfert, North Kerry.
In the course of the day ‘Mani’ won his specialist event the High Jump with 1.76m which was below his PB of 1.80, and was second in the 60m hurdles in 9.05. Then after a long break in the programme, he came back to win the long jump with a new PB of 5.98m, was second in the Shot Putt with a throw of 9.98m and finished off taking second in the 1,000m in 3.27 to the delight of his frozen coaches. Well done to ‘Mani’ a natural athlete still only in his second year of competition, who impressed many in Heusden, Belgium at the EJCC last September, where his main event was the high jump.
Well done also to all who helped make this great achievement possible, his coaches Phil Roche, Liam O’Hora and Brian Croke. This now makes ‘Mani’ the club’s most successful CE athlete this century. The last great CE athlete was Barry Walsh in the early 1990’s. Barry who attended Crescent College, is now based in London and later went on to Penn State College in the USA on an athletic scholarship and represented Ireland on a number of occasions. The versatile Timmy Crowe also represented the Irish schools in Scotland in the Schools International CE competition in 2008. |
