30 years after his Dublin Marathon win, the retired Olympic medallist will start the 2023 race, a fitting tribute to a glittering athletics career
Thirty years after his Dublin Marathon win, the retired Olympic medallist will start the 2023 race, a fitting tribute to a glittering athletics careerJohn Treacy winning silver at the Olympic Games in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 12th, 1984. Photograph: Getty Images
In the end Treacy beat them all except for Lopes, whose utterly masterful run and victory in 2:09:21, at age 37, earned him Olympic gold. Treacy’s debut time of 2:09:56 to win the silver medal would have been good enough to win gold in 1988, and also in 1992, in 1996, in 2000 and in the 2004 Olympic marathon.
Noel Carroll , co-founder of the Dublin Marathon, runs in the inaugural marathon on October 28th, 1980. Photograph: Jack McManus/The Irish Times “Any telephone call like that Noel was always in upbeat mood,” Treacy says now, “asking me was I fit, asking about the family. Then you knew he was going to ask you for something else. Whether that was for Goal, which he helped a lot with, Noel was always on for something.
“Barcelona in 1992 was my third Olympic marathon, my fourth Olympics, and I’d suffered a bit in that one,” Treacy says . “After winning LA earlier in 1992, I went back again in March of 1993, it didn’t go great. I finished fifth, in 2:17, a very, very hot day, and suffered a bit in that one too. “I was feeling better on the Sunday. The whole plan was to take it as easy as possible, run within myself, then make one big move. And for me, I really enjoyed Dublin, got a fantastic cheer the whole way around, you’d hear things like ‘thanks for the memories’, and that meant a great deal.
Looking at Treacy now, he has lost little of his running physique, and still gets out for a few “very slow” runs a week. But, true to his word, Dublin was his last marathon. “I was fulfilled, simple as that. For me, when I did retire, one of the great reliefs was that I didn’t have to worry about catching a cold any more.
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