* Q1 EPS $0.60 vs est $0.44
* Q1 sales $1.45 bln vs est $1.34 bln
* Q1 same-store sales up 12.8 pct
* Shares rise 9 pct after mkt (Follows alerts)
May 19 (Reuters) - Athletic footwear retailer Foot Locker Inc's quarterly results raced past Wall Street expectations, helped by continued strength in demand for running shoes, sending its shares up 9 percent in after-market trade.
Foot Locker is continuing to reap the benefits of closing about 650 underperforming stores over the last three years to drive sales and margin growth.
Despite a patchy economic recovery, retailers such as Foot Locker and smaller rival Finish Line Inc that sell footwear brands from Nike Inc , Converse, Puma and Adidas AG (ADSGn.DE) have benefited from improving demand for athletic and running shoes.
February-April net income rose to $94 million, or 60 cents a share, from $54 million, or 34 cents a share, a year ago.
First-quarter sales rose 13 percent to $1.45 billion. Same-store sales rose 12.8 percent.
Analysts on an average were expecting earnings of 44 cents a share on revenue of $1.34 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Shares of the company rose 9 percent to $24.20 in extended trade on Thursday. They closed at $22.26 on the New York Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Viraj Nair in Bangalore; Editing by Roshni Menon)
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