Results & Photos of the Great Limerick Run Marathon & Half-Marathon - Sun 5th May 2019

The main event in Munster over the Bank Holiday weekend was the Great Limerick Run with thousands taking part in the marathon, half-marathon and 6 mile races.

There were 776 finishers in the marathon this year which is up 7% on last year.

The results of the top 10 men are shown below. The prizes for the first three men and women was €1000, €750 and €500 respectively.

The organisers also gave performance bonuses to Irish athletes for breaking certain times. Sergiu Ciobanu got an additional €1,000 for breaking 2:21 while Peter Mooney got an extra €100 for breaking 2:30.

The performance bonuses for women were awarded at sub 2:50 times. The first woman home was just under 3 hours.

1218 Sergiu Ciobanu Male 1 M35+  1 CLONLIFFE HARRIERS A.C. 02:20:26
516 Peter Mooney     Male 2 M35+   2 02:29:54
970 Christopher Murphy Male 3  M35+ 3 LEEVALE A.C.     02:37:25
607 Joey Feery     Male     4  MOPEN 1 CLONMEL A.C.  02:40:59
1296 Andy Finan Male     5 M35+     4 SLIGO A.C. 02:41:14
752 Philip Niland Male     6 M35+     5 CELBRIDGE A.C. 02:46:18
754 Rory Mooney Male     7 M35+     6 02:46:52
735 Scott Mc Cann Male 8     M35+ 7 02:47:44
1223 Kevin Ward Male     9 M45+     1 LONGFORD A.C. 02:47:55
577 Rob O Brien Male 10 M35+     8 CELBRIDGE A.C. 02:48:35
540 Elaine Walsh Female 1 F35+     1 GALWAY CITY HARRIERS A.C. 02:59:56 42
536 Neasa De Burca     Female     2 F35+     2 GALWAY CITY HARRIERS A.C. 03:00:24 44
517 Joan Flynn     Female     3     F35+ 3     MULLINGAR HARRIERS A.C. 03:02:18 46
897 Jan Corcoran     Female     4 F35+     4 LE CHEILE A.C. 03:04:47 58
582 Kate O Malley     Female     5 FOPEN 1  03:05:51 62
520 Grace Kennedy     Female     6 FOPEN 2     DONORE HARRIERS  03:06:18
1389 Kaitlyn Kiernan Bartolone     Female     7 FOPEN     3  03:06:23
568 Lisa Hughes     Female     8 F45+     1     LE CHEILE A.C.  03:13:54
1348 Danielle Dilworth     Female     9 FOPEN 4  03:24:29     117
599 Louise Mulhare     Female     10 FOPEN 5  03:25:17     124

Marathon results... https://www.tdleventservices.co.uk/event-results/events?event=3135

 In the half-marathon, there were 2185 finishers which is up over 10% on last year.

There were also several Cork runners in the top three...

3404 Peter Somba Male 1 M35+ 1  01:06:24 ... €600
2438 David Mansfield Male 2 MOPEN 1 CLONMEL A.C. 01:07:19 ... €300
3319 Alan O Brien Male     3 M35+     2 EAGLE A.C. 01:08:55 ... €150
2716 Siobhan O Doherty    Female  Borrisokane AC 1 FOPEN 1 01:18:39 ... €600
3507 Claire Mc Carthy Female 2 F35+ 1 LEEVALE A.C.01:20:50 ... €300
2255 Sorcha Kearney Female 3 F35+ 2 ST. FINBARRS A.C. 01:23:18 .. €150

Half-Marathon results... https://www.tdleventservices.co.uk/event-results/events?event=3136

There were 5427 finishers in the 6 mile race which is up almost 29% on last year.

Results... https://www.tdleventservices.co.uk/event-results/events?event=3137

Photos...
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