Bronze Medal For Tullamore Athlete At National U20 Championships

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Ava O'Connor also broke an 18 year-old club record during the weekend.

Tullamore Harrier Ava O'Connor picked up a bronze medal over 800m at the National U20 championships in Santry on Sunday. 

O'Connor was less than a second behind silver medalist Maeve O'Neill, running a time of 2:12s. 

The performance came just 24 hours after O'Connor broke an 18 year old club  record for the mile, clocking a time of 4:55. 

That was in the heats for the senior women's mile in which her clubmate Ruby Stueven also finished in third place. 

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