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best Irish runner of all time? 3/26/2005 9:43PM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
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sonia O sullivan?
Mark Carroll?
John Tracey?
Eamonn Coughlan?
Marcus O Sullivan?
will Cragg be the best?
Together Standing Tall
RE: best Irish runner of all time? 9/5/2010 6:31PM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
This is no contest. It is Sonia O'Sullivan all the way.

Sonia O'Sullivan - Olympic Silver (and robbed of a Bronze by that Russian drug cheat Samolenko in 1992), World Gold and Silver (should have 3 World golds, robbed of 2 by those pesky chinese in 1993), 3 European Golds and 2 European Silvers, 2 World CC Golds, World Indoor Silver, World Cup Gold, 5 times Grand Prix Champions, and in 1993 came 2nd in the Womens Overall competition, and 3rd in the overall in 1994. Completely dominant from 1993-1995 and at the very top of Womens distance running from 1992-2004. Has an incredible range of PB's from 800m up to the Marathon.

If I was to do a Womens only list my top 5 would be:

1) Sonia O'Sullivan
2) Catherina McKiernan
3) Derval O'Rourke
4) Susan Smith
5) Maeve Kyle