Fionnuala Britton wins 3000m track race in France...1st May 2013

On the 1st of May, Fionnuala Britton won a 3000m track race outdoors in a time of 9:03.12 at the 'Meeting de Balma' meet in Toulouse, France. This was only slightly slower than the 9:00.54 that Fionnuala ran when she won the bronze medal at the European Outdoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden last March.

Also in the race was Kerry Harty from Northern Ireland who finished in second place in 9:11.66. Kerry was on the Irish Euorpean X-Country team back in 2010 and has had a recent successful Indoor track season, which included wins over 1500m in Athlone and Birmingham, as well as posting 9:20.95 and 9:28 over 3,000m in Sheffield (Indoor) and Armagh (Road) recently.