Frank Mulvihill captained the Irish athletics team at the 1948 London Olympic Games, finishing 26th in the marathon in 2:57:35.0. From Limerick, he emigrated to Coventry in 1923 where he worked as a tool maker and built a distinguished long-distance running career with Godiva Harriers, captaining the club between 1941 and 1945. He achieved national prominence in 1946 when he finished second to Jack Holden in a specially staged world record attempt 30-mile race at the White City, London. Victory in the Irish marathon championship in 1948 earned him Olympic selection. David Guiney remembered him as 'one of the most appealing characters any of us had ever met in athletics.' He was part of the AAUE contingent admitted through IOC intervention.
Athletics
