Cork runner Fearghal Curtin finishes 5th in Berlin Half-Marathon

The Berlin Half-Marathon is one of the largest half-marathons in Europe and this year, it was held on the 6th of April 2025 with a total of 19,443 finsihers.

Cork runner Fearghal Curtin from Youghal had a great race finishing in 5th place overall.

 1 Diriba, Gemechu Dida (ETH) 58:43
2 Lodung, Richard Etir (KEN) 59:30
3 Petros, Amanal (GER) Hannover 59:31
4 Ringer, Richard (GER) Rehlingen 1:00:51
5 Fearghal, Curtin (IRL) 1:01:12
6 Aizawa, Akira (JPN) 1:01:20
7 Diaz, Carlos (CHI) 1:21
8 Kiprotich, Gideon (KEN) 1:01:25
9 Kithuku, Joshua (KEN) 1:41 
10 Koech, Robert Kiprop (KEN) 1:01:49 

Here are his splits for the 5, 10 & 15km marks...

As you can see, his average pace for each 5km splits was well under 15 minutes!

Fearghal's time of 1:01:12 is just 15 seconds outside the Irish Half-Marathon record which was set by Martin Fagan in 2009.

Half Marathon 1:00:57 Martin Fagan The Hague NL 14.03.09

Fearghal was the winner of this years John Treacy Dungarvan 10-mile road race when he set a new course record of 47m 42s.