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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Jill Hodgins from Cork wins 2012 Seville Marathon

Jill Hodgins from Cork won the Seville Marathon in Spain on Sunday, the 19th of February 2012. In doing so, Jill set a new personal best time of 2 hours 46 minutes 58 seconds to win the €6,000 first prize. (Half split 01:22:44)

5 PRIMERAS MUJERES
Puesto Dorsal T. Maratón T. Media  Nombre
 1  02:46:58 01:22:44 HODGINS, JILL
 2  03:02:18 01:30:12 JIMENEZ GUARDEÑO, MARIA DOLORES
 3  03:04:13 01:27:34 XHERVELLE, CHANTAL
 4  03:06:58 01:30:38 BERNALD HERNANDEZ, NOELIA
 5  03:09:21 01:30:40 HIDALGO BERUTICH, SILVIA


Her previous best was 2:52.21 set in the New York Marathon in 2009. Previous Marathon times were 3:14.35 in Dublin in 2006 and 3:06.35 in Toronto in 2008. She is the latest athlete to join the Marathon Mission squad with Athletics Ireland.
Just to put that time in perspective, Jill is just a mere 10 minutes outside the qualifying time for the 2012 London Olympics.

7 comments:

  1. Wellcome to Seville (Spain), Jill.
    I tried to follow you but I couldn´t.
    Congratulations for your best time.

    Luis Gomez Moreno

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  2. Well done Jill. fantastic PB and great win.

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  3. Big congrats to Jill! Well deserved :)

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  4. Well done Jill, and thanks for taking the trouble to offer some encouragement to an old bloke who was struggling a bit(me!)as you were walking through the park with your boquet afterwards.
    Peter Key
    England

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  5. Tara Browne23/2/12 11:02 am

    Congrats Jill - amazing achievement! TB

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  6. A long time time since we had an Irish athlete winning an international marathon, male or female.

    Congratulations Jill on tremendous victory in Spain and also on excellent pb. Keep it going.

    Gillian Harte.

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  7. Well done Jill, go you!

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