1 week Ago
Hiko Tonosa came up just shy of breaking his Irish record at the Rotterdam Marathon this morning, the Dundrum South Dublin athlete clocking 2:09:52 to finish 12th. That was just 10 seconds away from the national record of 2:09:42 he ran to finish third at the Dublin Marathon last year. Tonosa went through halfway in a controlled 1:05:04, and began to crank up the pace in the third quarter, covering that 10K section in 30:32, but he fell slightly off that pace in the closing kilometres to clock the second quickest time of his career.
The quickest Irish marathon performance of all time remains the 2:09:15 run by John Treacy in Boston in 1988, a course which is not eligible for record purposes due to its net elevation drop. Elsewhere, Niamh Allen of Leevale AC was the leading Irish performer on day two of the European Running Championships in Belgium. She came home 18th in the women’s 10km, clocking 32:25.
Her teammate Emily Haggard-Kearney (North Belfast Harriers) finished 30th 32:51. Cormac Dalton of Mullingar Harriers was the top Irish finisher in the men's 10km: 24th in 28:49. Sean Tobin was 41st in 29:22, with Keelan Kilrehill 47th in 29:36.
On Saturday, Efrem Gidey finished an agonising fourth in the half marathon, missing out on a medal by just one second. Ann-Marie McGlynn was 26th in the women’s half marathon. Ireland had no representatives in the marathon at the event.
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