Irish & International Sports News, Fixtures & Results

The French capital was the site for Fionnuala McCormack's fifth Olympics

Paris 2024: McCormack 28th as Hassan wins marathon gold

Five-time Olympian Fionnuala McCormack finished 28th in the women's marathon at Paris 2024 as the Netherlands' Sifan Hassan edged past Ethiopian world record holder Tigst Assefa to clinch gold by just three seconds.

Paris 2024 • 11 Aug 24

Ethiopia's Tigist Assefa celebrates after crossing the line

Assefa shatters women's marathon world record in Berlin

Ethiopia's Tigist Assefa broke the women's marathon world record by more than two minutes with a stunning victory in Berlin on Sunday.

Athletics • 24 Sep 23

Paris will host the games for the first time in 100 years in 2024

Paris Olympic marathon route aims to 'celebrate women'

Competitors in the marathon at the Paris 2024 Olympics will run from central Paris to Versailles and back, on a course designed to salute women and trace one of the pivotal historic events of the French Revolution.

Athletics • 05 Oct 22

Fionnuala McCormack in action on day five of the European Championships

Fionnuala McCormack seventh in women's marathon

Fionnuala McCormack has secured a seventh-placed finish in the women's marathon at the European Championships in Munich.

Athletics • 15 Aug 22

Cooke beat her previous personal best by almost four minutes

Aoife Cooke books Olympic Marathon place

Aoife Cooke will be Ireland's second contender in the Women's Marathon at the Tokyo Olympics after beating the qualifying standard at the Cheshire Elite Marathon.

Athletics • 25 Apr 21

Fionnuala McCormack of Ireland competes during the Women's Marathon during the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games

Tokyo marathon & race walk qualifying to restart first

Olympic qualification for the marathon and road race walk events can restart from 1 September, three months earlier than previously announced, the sport's governing body World Athletics has ruled.

Athletics • 28 Jul 20

'Not many marathon runners have gone from marathon running to playing rugby'

The spirit animal roaring Scullion towards Tokyo 2021

Irish marathon runner Stephen Scullion speaks to RTÉ Sport's Raf Diallo about the spirit animal mantra and pscyhological tools helping him stay focused after his Olympics debut was delayed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Athletics • 14 Jul 20

'I'd never say never but the standard, I think it's going to take the 2:29:30 to get on the plane'

'Never say never'- Lizzie Lee on weighing up Tokyo 2021

Olympian marathon runner Lizzie Lee speaks to RTÉ Sport's Raf Diallo about whether she will target the Tokyo Games now that they have been pushed back to 2021, marginal gains and running shoes and how her daughter has been cheering up local healthcare workers in Cork.

Athletics • 13 Jul 20

Participants during the 2014 Cork City Marathon

Cork City Marathon rescheduled for September

The 2020 Cork City Marathon has been postponed until September, organisers have confirmed.

Athletics • 19 Mar 20

Kevin Seaward clocked up a personal best at the Seville Marathon.

Seaward becomes second-fastest Irish marathon runner

Kevin Seaward clocked a lifetime best - and became the second-fasted Irish marathon runner of all time in the process - at the Seville Marathon on Sunday.

Athletics • 23 Feb 20

'Frequently I had less than £100 in my bank account'

Stephen Scullion has out-run adversity to get to Tokyo

Irish marathon runner Stephen Scullion relives the race that booked his place in the 2020 Olympics and details the challenges on the road to that achievement

Athletics • 21 Jan 20

Eliud Kipchoge writes his name into history books

History maker Kipchoge runs first sub-two-hour marathon

Eliud Kipchoge has become the first runner to finish a marathon in under two hours.

Athletics • 12 Oct 19

Kipchoge can hardly believe his achievement

Eliud Kipchoge smashes world marathon record

The once seemingly impossible two hour barrier for the marathon moved a huge step closer with this incredible performance in Germany.

Athletics • 16 Sep 18

Sergiu Ciobanu, Mick Clohisey, Sean Hehir and Kevin Seaward

Strong Irish performance as Naert claims marathon win

Kevin Seaward was the best placed of the Irish runners in the men's marathon at the European Championships in Berlin this morning, finishing 15th and posting a season's best of 2:16:58.

Athletics • 12 Aug 18

So near and yet so far for Eliud Kipchoge in Monza

Kipchoge misses out on sub two-hour marathon target

Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge has failed in his bid to complete the first sub-two hour marathon by an agonising 25 seconds in Italy.

Athletics • 06 May 17

Sergiu Ciobanu transferred his allegiance to Ireland last July

Athletics Ireland rejects marathon bias claim

Athletics Ireland has denied that it used a runner’s background as part of its selection policy.

Athletics • 24 May 16

Thomas Frazer has an Olympic qualification time for the Rio games in 2016

Irish athletes get Rio times as standards revised

Seven Irish athletes have achieved qualification times for the Rio Olympics in 2016 at the stroke of a pen after qualifying standards for several events were revised upwards.

Paris 2024 • 21 Dec 15

Dennis Kimetto celebrates his world record winning time

Kimetto smashes marathon world record

Kenya's Dennis Kimetto smashed the marathon world record in Berlin on Sunday, winning the race in a time of two hours, two minutes and 57 seconds to shave 26 seconds off the previous best.

Athletics • 28 Sep 14