Ireland’s Sonia O’Sullivan has made a triumphant return to the track with victory in a low-key meeting in Melbourne’s Olympic Park. The win is all the more pleasing for O’Sullivan as it comes just ten weeks after she gave birth to her second child.
The Olympic 5000m silver medallist will now race in next Sunday’s Irish Cross-Country trials and will then decide if she will compete in the World trials in Dublin in three weeks time.
“It is good to be back on the track. You always want to run faster but the conditions were not ideal. Another time I could have gone a minute faster,” said O’Sullivan before adding that the Dublin race would certainly provide a barometer for success.
“There should be some good competition and competition improves me a lot. I will do the four kilometres if anything but I will decide next Sunday. Ireland will have a good team and I want to help out as much as I can. It will be unbelievable to compete in Dublin in front of a home crowd. They will definitely lift me, I can still remember the support I got when I competed in Marrakesh.”
Filed by Tom Grealis
