It was McCormack’s run at the Valencia Marathon in December last year, of 2:26:16, that guaranteed her place on the Irish team at the Paris Olympics, starting this July. Only a week after the marathon, she finished fourth in the European Cross Country Championships held in Belgium.
This gutsy runner, who gave birth to her third child in 2023, is not only one of Ireland’s greatest distance athletes, but throws down the challenge to the world to try and keep up with her.
Back in her first Olympics in Beijing in 2008, McCormack competed in the 3,000m steeplechase. Next, in London 2012, the multi-talented runner doubled up in both the 5,000m and 10,000m, and then progressed to the marathon distance for both Rio (2016) and Tokyo. In fact, it was at Tokyo that McCormack matched Sonia O’Sullivan and race walker Olive Loughnane in competing in four consecutive Olympics. But of course, her achievements are far from confined to the Olympics track. She has also won two gold medals from the European Cross Country Championships, in 2011 and 2012 and at the time she was the first woman who had successfully defended this title.
Going back to 2001, she debuted with 33rd place at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and in 2006, she won the under-23 silver medal in the European Cross Country Champs. And by the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, she had improved to 11th place.
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