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Cork Woman Books Ticket For Olympics With New Marathon PB

Cork Woman Books Ticket For Olympics With New Marathon PB
PJ Browne
By PJ Browne
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Aoife Cooke ran an Olympic marathon qualifying time on Sunday. The Cork woman won the Cheshire Elite Marathon in 2:28.30, a minute inside the Olympic standard.

The run improved on her own personal best by just over four minutes and makes the 34-year-old the second Irish woman to meet the marathon standard for Tokyo. Fionnuala McCormack ran 2:26.47 in the 2019 Chicago Marathon to qualify.

Cooke has also moved from fifth to fourth on the all-time Irish marathon list, leaping over Sonia O'Sullivan's 2005 run of 2:29.01.

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Donegal runner Anne-Marie McGlynn placed third in Cheshire and was agonisingly close to the Olympic standard as finished just four seconds outside the required time.

Three Irish men - Stephen Scullion, Kevin Seaward and Paul Pollock - have already set qualifying times for the Olympic marathon.

Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

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