Jodie McCann won the Irish Under-20 cross country title in 2019 and was first Irish finisher at the European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon the same year.
She ran the 5,000 metres at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, finishing 20th in her heat in 15:55.08, at the end of a season in which she lowered her personal best for the distance by almost a minute.
McCann grew up in south Dublin and took up athletics at nine. She attended Rathdown School and studied primary school teaching at the DCU Institute of Education. She is from Glenageary, County Dublin.
Athletics
