BIOGRAPHY Rhasidat was a true prodigy, winning European sprint 100m/200m doubles at Youth and Junior level, including a European U18 200m title when she was just 15. She now holds the full deck of Irish senior sprint records (60m to 400m) adding the 100m at Nationals last month with a sensational 11:13. Tallaght AC nurtured [...]

BIOGRAPHY Luke made his first big leap in 2021 when his 3:36:81 knocked five seconds off his PB and went on to debut at European and World Championships over the next two years. An injury delayed his 2024 start until May, forcing him to race in seven countries within five weeks in pursuit of Olympic [...]

BIOGRAPHY Jack was an individual 400m finalist at last year’s European U23 Championships (7th) where he set his PB in the semi-finals. He produced a brilliant finish to win his first national senior outdoor title this year, which sealed his place on the Mixed relay squad. He’s already been part of the squad that made [...]

BIOGRAPHY Nicola, whose dad Norman built her a throwing circle on the family’s dairy farm in her mid-teens, might have been targeting LA 2028 but has made incredible progress in the past year and is the youngest member of the athletics squad. She impressed by finishing ninth in the European final last month at her [...]

BIOGRAPHY A European 800m junior silver medallist behind Keely Hodgkinson in 2018, Sophie won the European U23 1500m title in Finland last year, outsprinting Irish teammate Sarah Healy for gold. She ran her PB on her debut at World Seniors in 2023. Sophie, who is the daughter of Olympic medallist Sonia and world-renowned coach Nic [...]

BIOGRAPHY Kate is Ireland’s first heptathlete to compete at the Olympic Games, and only our second ever female multi-eventer after Margaret Murphy who competed in the pentathlon in 1972. Her big breakthrough was a European Junior (U20) silver in 2019 when she was still only 18 and became the first and only Irish woman to [...]

BIOGRAPHY Kelly is a five-time Irish 400m hurdles champion who moved to eleventh on the Irish all-time 400m flat list in May with an impressive performance in Brussels. She was part of the Women’s 4x400m Relay team who sensationally made the final at the World Championships in Budapest last year. She ran a 400m hurdles [...]

BIOGRAPHY Rachel played hockey and learnt ballet when she was younger. She only joined an athletics club upon starting secondary school yet anchored the Irish women’s 4x400m team that came very close to a medal at the European Juniors (U20) in 2019. This year she has broken her 200m and 400m personal bests and ran [...]

BIOGRAPHY Jodie has been in the form of her life this year, lowering her 5000m personal best by nearly one minute, to move to tenth on the Irish all-time list, and has also set PBs in the 1500m/Mile/3000m. Putting her primary teaching job on hold and training with Craig Mottram’s group in Australia (she has [...]

BIOGRAPHY Sharlene has made huge progress in the past two years; knocking almost a second and a half off her PB, and repeatedly anchoring Ireland to historic relay medals by running the fastest relay splits against the world’s best quarter-milers this season. She played a key role for the mixed 4x400m winning bronze at the [...]

BIOGRAPHY Roisin was a member of the women’s 4x400m team who were finalists in the World Championships in Budapest last year and also ran the penultimate leg when they set a new Irish indoor record (3:28.45), and finished fifth, at World Indoors in Glasgow this season. She also helped Ireland’s women to the 4x400m final [...]

BIOGRAPHY Brian was the first Irishman home at the European Cross-Country Championships in Dublin in 2021 with an impressive 10th place, and has since proved his class on the track. He was seventh in the US collegiates (NCAA) in 2022, when he was also eighth in the European final. Last year he took almost two [...]

BIOGRAPHY Eric, whose grandmother comes from Ballina (Co Mayo), grew up in New York (Rockland), and he was coached in high school by Ireland’s Sydney Olympic hammer thrower Paddy McGrath. He broke the 20metre mark (20:07), and Paddy Quirke’s 30-year-old Irish record, for the first time in 2022 and came very close to breaking 21m [...]

BIOGRAPHY Cathal has represented Ireland in cross-country and mountain running as well as track and has had a great 2024 season, taking over two seconds off his personal best and moving to sixth on the Irish 1500m all-time list. The reigning three-time Irish 1500m champion has twice been a NCAA semi-finalist for the University of [...]

BIOGRAPHY Lauren, who gave up gaelic football four years ago to concentrate on sprinting, has been in the form of her life this season, breaking 53 seconds for the first time in early June. Just over a week later she ran in the heats of the women’s 4x400m Relay in Rome, helping Ireland to make [...]

BIOGRAPHY London-born Alex, whose grandfather is from Tyrone, booked his place early for Tokyo with his 1:20:50 PB in La Coruna, Spain in 2019. He was 10th in the 2018 Europeans Championships and his sixth place led Ireland to a European team bronze in 2017. He was 46th on his Olympic debut in Rio 2016 [...]

BIOGRAPHY Stephen initially achieved the qualification standard when he finished fifth in the Houston Marathon, before sealing his position when he knocked two minutes off his PB with 2:09:49 at last year’s London Marathon, just 34 seconds shy of Olympic Silver Medallist John Treacy’s Irish record of 2:09.15 set in Boston in 1988. He usually [...]

BIOGRAPHY Kevin’s PB in the Seville Marathon in February 2020 was the second fastest marathon by an Irishman at a time when the PBs of Ireland’s Ulster marathon trio were all tumbling. He also ran a sub-63 minute PB for the halfmarathon in October 2020. He was 64th, in 2:20, on his Olympic debut in [...]

BIOGRAPHY Paul ranks fourth on the Irish all-time list after his Northern Ireland record at the Valencia Marathon in 2019, his last race over the distance. It knocked over five minutes off his PB and also qualified him for Tokyo. He was 32nd in the Rio Olympic marathon. He is a qualified doctor who works [...]

BIOGRAPHY Repeated stress fractures saw Aoife return home mid-way through a US college scholarship in 2007. She qualified as a PE teacher in UCC and now works as a personal trainer but was out of competitive athletics for six years. Her 2:32 run to win the Irish title in the 2019 Dublin Marathon, which knocked [...]

BIOGRAPHY Fionnuala is a legendary mudlark; European cross country champion twice (2011 and 2012), a double gold medallist (with the team) in 2012, fifth at World XC in 2014, and fourth five times also at European XC. In Paris she makes more history as the first Irish woman to compete at five Olympic Games. The [...]

BIOGRAPHY Irish U20 200m champion who also took 400m bronze at this year’s senior Nationals. Robert has continued his rapid rise with a brilliant 400m PB of 46.59 at the Mary Peters Track in Belfast on May 29. OTHER ATHLETICS ATHLETES {{ vc_btn: title=SEE+ALL+ATHLETES&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%2300ed00&outline_custom_hover_background=%23ffffff&outline_custom_hover_text=%23001136&shape=square&css=.vc_custom_1720605778641%7Bmargin-top%3A+10px+%21important%3Bmargin-left%3A+0px+%21important%3B%7D&link=url%3A%252Fathletes%252F&el_class=see-all-athletes }} David KennyBrendan BoyceCliodhna ManningChris O’DonnellCillin GreeneLouise ShanahanLeon ReidNadia PowerMarcus LawlerSophie [...]

BIOGRAPHY The reigning two in-a-row national champion at 20km has been in flying form. He was ninth in the European Juniors in 2019 and on July 9 won a silver medal at the recent European U23s in Talinn. He is coached by Olympic bronze medallist Rob Heffernan. OTHER ATHLETICS ATHLETES {{ vc_btn: title=SEE+ALL+ATHLETES&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%2300ed00&outline_custom_hover_background=%23ffffff&outline_custom_hover_text=%23001136&shape=square&css=.vc_custom_1720605778641%7Bmargin-top%3A+10px+%21important%3Bmargin-left%3A+0px+%21important%3B%7D&link=url%3A%252Fathletes%252F&el_class=see-all-athletes }} Brendan [...]

Brendan BoyceATHLETICS BIOGRAPHY Brendan secured early Olympic qualification with his PB and fifth place at the 2019 European Championships. This season he had another top 10 at the European Race Walking Cup in Poland. Tokyo will be his third Olympics. He finished 26th in London 2012 and 19th in Rio 2016. OTHER ATHLETICS ATHLETES {{ [...]

BIOGRAPHY Cliodhna came agonisingly close to breaking 53 seconds with her new PB at this year’s AAI Games and went on to take silver behind Phil Healy at Nationals. OTHER ATHLETICS ATHLETES {{ vc_btn: title=SEE+ALL+ATHLETES&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%2300ed00&outline_custom_hover_background=%23ffffff&outline_custom_hover_text=%23001136&shape=square&css=.vc_custom_1720605778641%7Bmargin-top%3A+10px+%21important%3Bmargin-left%3A+0px+%21important%3B%7D&link=url%3A%252Fathletes%252F&el_class=see-all-athletes }} Chris O’DonnellCillin GreeneLouise ShanahanNadia PowerMarcus LawlerSophie BeckerLeon ReidSarah LavinCiara MageeanSarah HealyEilish FlanaganMark EnglishSíofra Cléirigh BüttnerThomas BarrPhil HealyMichelle FinnAndrew Coscoran [...]

BIOGRAPHY Chris is a five-time national 400m champion and was one of the Mixed Relay team who caused such a sensation by making the Olympic final in Tokyo. He was also part of the teams who made the finals at the World Championships in 2022 and 2023. The pinnacle of his career to date was [...]

BIOGRAPHY The young Galway man moved to 10th on the Irish 400m all-time list with his PB of 46.18 in Geneva this summer when he also won his first Irish senior 400m title in 46: 38. OTHER ATHLETICS ATHLETES {{ vc_btn: title=SEE+ALL+ATHLETES&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%2300ed00&outline_custom_hover_background=%23ffffff&outline_custom_hover_text=%23001136&shape=square&css=.vc_custom_1720605778641%7Bmargin-top%3A+10px+%21important%3Bmargin-left%3A+0px+%21important%3B%7D&link=url%3A%252Fathletes%252F&el_class=see-all-athletes }} Louise ShanahanLeon ReidSophie BeckerMarcus LawlerNadia PowerSarah HealySarah LavinCiara MageeanSíofra Cléirigh BüttnerMark EnglishEilish [...]

BIOGRAPHY Louise was a European Youth champion at 800m in 2013 and a European Youth Olympic finalist in 2014. Injury then disrupted her career but she bounced back as Irish 1500m champion last year and her 800m victory at Nationals this year (2:03.62) critically moved her up three places into the top-48 ranking that clinched [...]

BIOGRAPHY Sophie was part of the Women’s 4x400m Relay team who won silver at this Summer’s European Championships in Rome where she also finished 10th in the individual 400m. The Wexford woman was also on the Mixed 4x400m team who made history by making the Tokyo Olympic final. She is the reigning Irish 400m champion [...]

BIOGRAPHY Leon is Ireland’s fastest man over 200m (from 2018) and joint third fastest over 100m (10:30). He’s the reigning Irish 200m champion, clocking 20:79 ahead of Mark Smith (20:97) and Marcus Lawler (20:99) at this year’s National Championship. A former European medallist at junior and U23 level for Britain, Leon’s mother is from Belfast. [...]

BIOGRAPHY Marcus is the third fastest Irish man in history, over both 100m and 200m. He won bronze in the 200m at the World University Games in 2019. He ran his 200m PB at the Cork City Sports in 2018 which also qualified him for Tokyo. He was a European Junior finalist in 2015. He [...]

BIOGRAPHY Nadia come into form over the past two years, marked by her bronze medal at the 2019 European U23 Championships in Sweden and a personal best of 2:01.01 in Italy last September. She went even lower (2:00.98) in February 2021 to break the Irish indoor record which she’d set a month earlier. Has produced [...]

BIOGRAPHY Ciara’s journey from World and European Junior silver medallist in 2010/2011 to become European senior champion this year has been torturous at times due to injuries, but she won a European bronze medal in 2016, a European bronze indoors in 2019 and European silver in 2022 along the way. Moving to an elite training [...]

BIOGRAPHY A European Youth Olympic bronze medallist in 2011 and a European Junior silver medallist in 2013, Sarah finally won her first senior medal - bronze at the European Games - in 2023. She also broke Derval O’Rourke’s long-standing senior record at World Championships and finished 2023 by breaking the Irish 100m flat record (11:27). [...]

BIOGRAPHY Sarah gave early notice of her talent by ripping up Ireland’s underage records and winning European medals at U18, U20 and U23 level. She was just 20 when she made her Olympic debut in Tokyo but is finding her form now at senior level, taking down the long-standing Irish senior indoor 1500m/3000m records this [...]

BIOGRAPHY A silver medallist at the European U23s in 2019 and also part of European CrossCountry U23 team silver that year. Eilish set a new N.Ireland record of 9:40.68 in Eugene, Oregon in May, knocking nearly two seconds off Kerry O’Flaherty’s 2015 mark. She won a USA Division 2 collegiate title and silver medal (5000m) [...]

BIOGRAPHY Mark’s class as a half-miler was franked early when he was fifth at World Juniors in 2012, and he is already a four-time continental medallist and two-time Olympian. He won European bronze medals outdoors in 2014 and 2022, and European Indoor silver in 2015, plus an indoor bronze in 2019, most of that while [...]

BIOGRAPHY Never beaten in Ireland as an outstanding junior and had a great career at Villanova University (2014-2018) where she was on eight Penn Relay winning teams. Síofra was one of the Irish half-milers who burnt up the indoor tracks this year and holds the Irish indoor 800m record with her 2:00.58 in Arkansas in [...]

BIOGRAPHY Thomas produced one of Ireland’s greatest Olympic moments on the track when he was fourth, by a mere fraction, in Rio 2016, just 0.05 seconds off bronze in a sensational sub-48 time that still stands as the national record. A finalist at European Junior and U23 level who was a World Student Games champion [...]

BIOGRAPHY The ‘Bandon Bullet’ has been one of the key figures in driving up the standard of Irish women’s sprinting over the past decade. She was fourth in a European Junior 100m final in 2013, was twice a 200m finalist at World Student Games, and made the European Semi-finals in 2018, before qualifying for her [...]

BIOGRAPHY Michelle narrowly missed the podium at World Student Games in 2013 and made her Olympic debut in 2016 but has found brilliant form this summer, running her three fastest times ever in June 2021. Her PB of 9:29.25 in Finland knocked a whopping nine seconds off her PB and was less than a second [...]

BIOGRAPHY Andrew was a European junior finalist but took a circuitous route to becoming an Olympian; walking away from a US college scholarship and then struggling with injuries until he blossomed again under coach Feidhlim Kelly. On his Olympic debut in Tokyo he outdid his ranking by making the semi-finals of the ultra-competitive metric mile. [...]