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Cork City Marathon recieves IAAF status

  • 09-12-2010 10:36am
    #1
    ecoli
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    With Dublin elevated onto the world map over the last year great to see another up and coming marathon following suit. Great to see two high class marathon races on this small island. Hopefully can have a knock on effect on the sport as a whole with more elites being attracted here for either races or training especially with the Olympics coming up.
    O'Sullivan flew in from Australia to launch the 2011 Bord Gais Energy Cork City Marathon yesterday and will also do some Olympic business this week.

    "We met all the high performance directors at the start of the year and are meeting them all again this week," she said. "Next year is particularly important because so many athletes will now be chasing Olympic qualification, so we want to make sure that everything is in place for them."

    The Cork Marathon, on June 6, will include an inaugural half-marathon next year and will also have IAAF status for the first time.

    Since it was revived four years ago, O'Sullivan has always taken part; she ran it as a part of a relay team for the past two years.

    Cork attracted 10,000 participants last year and gaining IAAF status should help attract more overseas entrants. It also offers a 50pc entry fee discount to anyone in receipt of welfare benefit

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/athletics-dont-let-cuts-upset-olympic-focus-osullivan-2450513.html


Comments

  • #2
    maryishairy
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    This marathon has provided Irish winners (and three cork winners) since its re-introduction onto the calender in 2007. Alan O' Shea won in 2007, Roy Fahy won in 2008, Michael Herlihy in 2009 and Sergiu Ciobanu in 2010.
    It's great that the best runners in Ireland (and Cork) have a realistic chance of winning a big city marathon in Ireland.

    I genuinely hope that the organising committee don't put on big prize money. Who wants to see ten ethiopians/ kenyans fill the first ten places? Leave that to the Dublin city marathon.


  • #3
    TheRoadRunner
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    maryishairy wrote: »
    It's great that the best runners in Ireland (and Cork) have a realistic chance of winning a big city marathon in Ireland.

    There's only one big city in Ireland. The rest are large towns :D


  • #4
    anymore
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    TheRoadRunner wrote: »
    There's only one big city in Ireland. The rest are large towns :D
    As a corkman, I wont argue with your comment, but lets be really honest, Ireland itself would be lost in a real english city !:D


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