Wicklow runner becomes first Irish woman to compete in five Olympic Games
Fionnuala McCormack finishes 28th in Olympics marathon as Sifan Hassan makes historyHer time was 2:30.12, excellent given the course and the conditions, and yet McCormack was not entirely satisfied about that. But the Wicklow athlete was being hard on herself, having moved up from 47th place at 10km, to finish inside the top 30 of the 79 women who finished.
“Except then you were coming back in and you could see the Eiffel Tower, and you were like ‘that looks way too far away’, I wish I was closer. I really focused on the downhills because that’s where I tend to drift. I probably passed as many people on the downhill as I did on the uphill. The flat was what got me. But I would have definitely preferred to have been more in the race instead of just surviving it.
Hassan had already won 5,000m and 10,000m bronze medals in Paris, and kicked past Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa in a sprint finish; Assefa secured silver in 2:22:58, while bronze went to Kenya’s Hellen Obiri in a personal best of 2:23:10.McCormack had already competed in four different Olympic events, the 3,000m steeplechase in Beijing 2008, the 5,000m and 10,000m in London 2012, then the marathon in Rio 2016 and the delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 .
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