Sky is the limit for Noah Harris says Wicklow athletics chairperson
Tadhg Evans
Wicklow People
What were you doing in your leaving-cert year, aside from studying or pretending to study?
In what is by no means a surprise, Parnell Athletics Club's Noah Harris has set a time worthy of appearing in next August's European Under-20 Championships in Finland. He did so at the Belfast Irish Milers meet last week, on his way to finishing fourth in the Men's International 3,000-metre race. His time of eight minutes and eight seconds was almost two seconds within the standard needed to appear in Tampere.
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