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Athletics Ireland Announce Final Selections For 2025 World Athletics Championships In Tokyo

Athletics Ireland have this morning announced the final team selection for the upcoming 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. A number of World and European medallists, as well as Olympians, will headline the team for the championships which take place at the Japan National Stadium from September 13th to September 21st. Amongst them are Sarah Healy (Women’s 1500m), Kate …

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Fionnuala McCormack takes 4th at European Cross Country Championships

Fionnuala McCormack (Kilcoole AC) produced one of the all-time great Irish performances to finish fourth in the senior women’s race at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Brussels this afternoon (Dec 10th). Competing at her 18th European Cross Country Championships, the context of McCormack’s result was made all the more impressive in that only last weekend she secured the qualifying …

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Fionnuala McCormack is first Irishwoman to qualify for five Olympics

Fionnuala McCormack became the first Irishwoman to qualify for five Olympic Games after running inside the qualifying time in the Valencia Marathon on Sunday. McCormack’s time of 2:26.19 was more than 30 seconds inside the 2:26.50 necessary to qualify for Paris and she finished in 34th place. The 39-year-old Wicklow native competed in the 3000m at Beijing 2008, the 5000m …

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Fionnuala McCormack To Make Her 18th European Cross Country Championships Appearance Post Maternity Leave

Irish athletics icon Fionnuala McCormack is set to lead the charge for the Irish team at the upcoming European Cross Country Championships in Brussels on 10 December 2023. Making her 18th appearance at the event, the four-time Olympian and two-time European gold medalist, is on a tight schedule, and will be competing in the Valencia Marathon just a week prior …

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RECORD-BREAKING IRISH TEAM RETURN TO DUBLIN ON THE BACK OF IRELAND’S MOST SUCCESSFUL EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Irish athletics team returned to Dublin this afternoon following their record-breaking exploits in Munich at the European Athletics Championships in Munich over the previous 7-days. Munich will be remembered for some time by Irish athletics fans, with this edition providing Ireland’s most successful ever European Athletics Championships. The medals marked the many high points this week, adding to the …

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Dublin 2020 SPAR European Cross Country Championships Cancelled

European Athletics today confirmed the cancellation of the 2020 edition of the SPAR European Cross Country Championships that was due to take place in Dublin, Ireland, on 13 December. As a part of yesterday’s Executive Board meeting held in Lausanne, Switzerland, European Athletics spoke with the Fingal-Dublin 2020 Local Organising Committee concerning the current COVID-19 situation in Ireland and the …

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Her Sport Team Of The Year 2019: Meet The Contenders

2019 proved to be a remarkable year for Irish women in sport. The Her Sport Team of The Year is aimed at giving the public the opportunity to recognise these achievements. Meet the contenders.

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