Martin Fagan wins Terenure 5 mile race in Dublin

In 2012, Irish international athlete Martin Fagan failed a drugs test for taking the performance enhancing drug EPO. After serving a two year ban, he gave an interview to RTE radio in January of this year to say he was thinking of returning to competitive running. In a poll on the site back then, 71% of the respondents said that they thought he should make a return to athletics.

Today (18th of May 2014), he won the Terenure 5 mile road race in Dublin. In a field of nearly 1500 runners, Martin Fagan finished in 24:23 in a sprint finish over Kenyan Freddy Keron Sittok.

1 Martin FAGAN        Mullingar Harriers     M 24:23
2 Freddy KERONSITTUK             M 24:23
3 Gary Murray             M 24:31
4 Conor DOONEY        raheny shamrocks     M 24:35
5 Joe SWEENEY        DSD     M 24:55

This is Fagan's first big win since returning to competitive running. At the start of May, he won the low key Coralstown 5k in 14:45. In that race, the prize for first place was €100 whereas the prize this time around for first place in Terenure was €400.

On Saturday, Ian O'Riordan had an interview with him in the Irish Times.

The womens race was won by Catherina McKiernan in a time of 27:40.

Full results are up on the Precision Timing website.