Both athletes have suffered major injury problems over the past couple of years but have battled back in tremendous style to reach the heights achieved yesterday.
Robert Heffernan had one of his best races ever to finish fifth in the 20k event. The winner was Yohan Diniz from France in 1:18:58, with Heffernan clocking 1:20:15, just six seconds off third placed Russian Igor Yerokhin.
1 Yohan Diniz FRA 19:53 39:35 59:11 1:18:58 (5k Splits)
2 Ivano Brugnetti ITA 0:19:57 0:39:35 0:59:14 1:19:36
3 Igor Yerokhin RUS 0:20:07 0:40:00 1:00:03 1:20:09
4 Ivan Trotski BLR 0:19:58 0:40:05 1:00:04 1:20:13
5 Robert Heffernan IRL 0:19:57 0:39:49 1:00:00 1:20:15
28 429 Colin Griffin IRL 0:20:49 0:41:43 1:03:07 1:25:14
46 428 Jeffrey Cassin IRL 0:22:13 0:44:22 1:06:42 1:29:06
9 IRL (5, 28, 46) 79pts
Few will forget the horrific car crash that ended Jamie Costin’s Greece Olympics, with the dreadful thought that he would never walk again too hard to believe. Not only has he overcome those life threatening injuries but he has now battled all the way back to the high very highest level.
15 Jamie Costin IRL 0:24:14 0:48:09 1:11:27 1:34:47 1:58:01 2:21:05 2:44:17 3:07:22 3:30:11 3:53:30 (k Splits)
MENS 50Km
25 326 Olive Loughnane IRL 0:23:15 0:46:33 1:10:28 1:34:28
WOMENS 20Km
