STOP Press:These standards now approved by the Olympic Council of Ireland. A total of 17 changes to entry standards for the track and field programme by the IAAF means that the number of Irish qualifiers for the Rio Olympics has ballooned. Most notably, the men’s and women’s marathon times have changed from 2:42:00 to 2:45:00 […]
On September 27 this year, Lizzie Lee finished the Berlin Marathon in a time of 2:32:51. It was a personal best by over five minutes and comfortably inside the Rio ’16 qualification time of 2 mins 42 secs. She took two weeks off and not for one second thought about the forthcoming cross-country season. “The […]
Fionnuala McCormack and Mick Clohisey were the star turns at the Glo Health National Interclub Cross-Country in Santry on a new pre-Christmas date which saw cross-country return to its former glory days. In the women’s 8km, Kilcoole’s McCormack took over in front on the second lap and after that the battle was on for the […]
Fionnuala McCormack (Britton) made the qualifying time for next year’s Rio Olympics when she ran a time of 2 hrs 33 mins 15 secs at today’s hicago Marathon. Although well inside the Olympic qualifying mark of 2 hours 42 minutes, her time was slower than the 2 hours 31 minutes 46 seconds she ran for […]
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