Irish results in the 2018 Manchester Marathon...

As well as Rotterdam and Rome, the Manchester Marathon was also held last weekend on Sunday the 8th of April 2018. This particular marathon has got a lot of bad publicity of late after it was found that the 26.2 mile course was actually short for a number of years due to a measuring error.

In the men's race, Mark Ryan from Dublin finished 3rd in a time of 2:25:40. In the women's event, Dolores Duffy of Watergrasshill AC finished 3rd female in the international section.

These are the Irish men under 3:10 and Irish women under 4 hours (Club only as there is no other way of finding them).

3 Mark RYAN    02:25:40 INT    2    SEN    Male    3    Rathfarnham WSAF, Dublin, Ireland
26 Kevin BAKER    02:37:45 SEN    15    SEN    Male    26    Mullingar Harriers (Westmeath, Ireland)
81 Michael BYRNE    02:44:26 SEN    50    SEN    Male    77    St Catherines Ac
86 Kent SWANN    02:44:55 SEN    54    SEN    Male    82    North Belfast Harriers
216 David CONWAY    02:54:31 SEN    137    SEN    Male    207    westport ac
252 John ROBINSON    02:55:48 V40    32    V40    Male    241    Ballymena Runners Ac
302 Mikey KEATING    02:57:20 V45    31    V45    Male    289    Galtee Runners
321 Liam LYONS    02:57:48 SEN    206    SEN    Male    307    Clonakilty Road Runners Ac
455 Derek CASEY    02:59:57 V40    66    V40    Male    436    AN BRU LIMERICK
465 Morgan O'REGAN    03:00:25 V40    69    V40    Male    446    Midleton AC
469 Loic GAREL    03:00:34 294    SEN    Male    450    Leevale ac
526 Ian O GORMAN    03:02:36 V50    25    V50    Male    506    Le cheile AC
548 Liam CURRAN    03:03:28    03:03:28 SEN    Male    527    Castlegar AC
600 Stephen MCELROY    03:04:57    03:04:57 92    V40    Male    575    ENNISKILLEN RUNNING CLUB
715 Shane GREENE    03:08:00    03:08:00 116    V40    Male    687    Clonmel Athletic Club
731 Michael BARTON    03:08:21 453    SEN    Male    702    Ballydrain Harriers

813 Dolores DUFFY    03:10:34  3    V50    Female    35    Watergrasshill Ac
2703 Mandy PRENDERGAST    03:41:31 52    V40    Female    282    Marathon Club Ireland
3194 Sinead O'MEARA    03:47:05 186    FSEN    Female    415    Borrisoleigh Track Attack
3949 Nessa GOGGIN    03:55:29 124    V40    Female    635    Watergrasshill A.C
4130 Mandy YAU-WILSON    03:57:03 124    V35    Female    691    County Antrim Harriers

Race website... http://www.greatermanchestermarathon.com

Manchester Marathon course (2013 to 2015) found to be nearly 400m short

In a statement, the Association of UK Course Measurers have recently announced that the Manchester Marathon course for 2013, 2014 and 2015 was nearly 400m short.

Following complaints about the 2015 race, the course was rechecked and it was found that that it was 380 metres short. Progressive errors detected in the mile markers as the course got longer suggest that there was a problem with the calibration of the wheel used in the initial measurement.

The distance for the 2016 edition will be the correct distance.

You can see the statement HERE

So what does it mean? It means that if you ran a PB in Manchester then it's doesn't count. If the course had been correct and you had managed to cover the extra 380m at the same average pace then it would have resulted in the following times...

3:00:00 is actually 3:01:38

3:30:00 is actually 3:31:54

4:00:00 is actually 4:02:11

What they don't say is that this problem should have been picked up long ago. There are so many people out there running with GPS watches that this problem would have been flagged after the 2013 race. It should have been checked back then. Instead, they used the wrong course for another two years.