Name: Fionnuala McCormack
Event: Marathon
Age: 39
Fionnuala McCormack joins an elite club of Irish athletes after qualifying for her fifth Olympic Games.
Wicklow native McCormack ran her first Olympics in Beijing in the 3000m steeplechase, followed by the 10000m in London four years later.
Her first marathon came in Rio 2016, and the two-time European Cross-Country champion will be the sole Irish representative in the women's marathon after qualifying in Valencia in December 2023, some six months after giving birth to her third child with husband and coach Alan.
McCormack finished fourth in the European Cross County Championships in 2023, just a week after running the Olympic qualifying time in Valencia over the marathon distance.
