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Saturday, November 03, 2018
All-time Cork Top Ten Marathon List... by John Walshe
John Walshe has compiled an all-time Cork top ten marathon list for men and women (Cork born athletes only).
CORK ALL-TIME TOP TEN MARATHON RANKINGS
Men
2:10:54 Mark Carroll (Leevale), New York, 2003
2:15:03 Sean Healy (Leevale), Nigeria, 1971
2:15:21 Donie Walsh (Leevale), Athlone, 1972
2:18:45 Martin McCarthy (Leevale), Berlin, 2003
2:19:05 Sean O’Flynn (Leevale), Virginia, 1982
2:19:35 Alan O'Shea (Bantry AC), Cannes (FRA), 2011
2:19:43 Tony O’Leary (Leevale), Dublin, 1988
2:19:46 Dick Hodgins (Leevale), Galway, 1975
2:19:52 Mark Hanrahan (Leevale), Rotterdam, 2016
2:20:23 Mick Walsh (Leevale), Cork, 1983
Women
2:29:01 Sonia O’Sullivan (Ballymore-Cobh), London, 2005
2:32:51 Lizzie Lee (Leevale), Berlin, 2015
2:38:00 Claire McCarthy (Leevale), Berlin 2016
2:43:00 Brid Murphy (Leevale), Dublin, 1992
2:46:37 Aoife Cooke (Youghal), Amsterdam, 2017
2:46:58 Jill Hodgins (Leevale), Seville, 2012
2:47:56 Valerie Vaughan (Blarney-Inniscarra), London, 2004
2:50:16 Emma Murphy (St Finbarrs), Rotterdam, 2014
2:50:22 Nollaig Hunter (Leevale), Cork, 2014
2:50:28 Joyce Curtin-Miller (East Cork), Houston, 2016
That list makes interesting reading. Also Ricki Burke of St Finbarr's ran sub 2 20 in Belfast in the 1980s not sure which year.
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