U-20 Men 4000m 1:20pm

Liam Brady (Tullamore Harriers)
Brady will be looking for the top spot in this year’s AB Travel Ballyfin Junior Cross having been third in 2009 and second in 2010. After last year’s performance he went on to take gold in the under 19 All-Ireland cross country championships and qualify for this year’s European track championships over 10,000 metres. As one of the favourites to make the Irish team for the European cross country he will hope to fine tune his preparations in Emo Court on October 8th.

Ryan McDermott (Dromore)
Having narrowly missed out on making last year’s team for the European cross country championships McDermott will be keen to make the cut this year. His track form over 5000m which includes the national junior title and a bronze medal from the Irish schools championships leaves him in a good position to start the cross country season on a high at the AB Travel Ballyfin Junior-Cross.

Sean Tobin (Clonmel)
Tobin was one of the form athletes of the last cross country season. Having come 5th in the under 18 All-Ireland championships he went on to take the under 17 and the Irish schools intermediate titles along with a 3rd place finish in the Celtic International under 20 race. On the track he was an impressive winner of the intermediate 3000m at the Irish schools championships in a time of 8:40 before a superb run at the European Youth Olympic Festival saw him finish in 4th position with a time of 8:29.

2010 profiles here.