Leevale's Lizzie Lee Runs in World Half-Marathon Championships,
Cardiff, Sat March 26th 2016
Lizzie Lee with her Coach, Donie Walsh, at last Monday's Cork City
Sports Athletics Person of the Year awards
IAAF World Half-Marathon Championship Website
The women's race starts at 13:35pm, while the men's race starts at
14:10pm.
TV Coverage
The Event is being covered live on BBC1 TV, from 13:30pm to
15:30pm.
While Ireland was entitled to enter a full team of four athletes,
Lizzie Lee is Ireland's sole representative, as many of our elite women
have been, or will be, chasing Olympic qualifiing times recently.
In an interview with Cork Athletics, last Monday, Lizzie outlined her
plans leading up to the Olympics, including Saturday's Half-Marathon,
saying that the event wasn't a key race for her, but that she hopes to
run a PB and this is likely to be her final Half-Marathon before the
Olympics. However she is planning to run a 10,000 track race, her
first, during the summer. She has been accepted to run in the
British Olympic 10,000m trials in Highgate, London.
Ireland's Women's Team
| No |
Athlete |
Country |
DoB |
PB |
| 144 |
Lizzie LEE |
IRL |
22 May 80 |
1:13:28 |
Ireland's Men's Team
Ireland has declared a full
complement in the Men's team event, with Sergiu CIOBANU, Thomas FRAZER,
Sean HEHIR
and Paul POLLOCK
| No |
Athlete |
Country |
DoB |
PB |
| 543 |
Sergiu CIOBANU |
IRL |
10 Aug 83 |
1:04:48 |
| 544 |
Thomas FRAZER |
IRL |
10 Sep 81 |
1:06:01 |
| 545 |
Sean HEHIR |
IRL |
27 Jan 85 |
1:05:12 |
| 546 |
Paul POLLOCK |
IRL |
25 Jun 86 |
1:02:10 |
Mass Participation Race
A mass participation race, with 25,000 participants, will
take
place
behind teh Championship elite men. Several Cork Athletes are
involved in this, with, among others, a large Togher AC contingent.
Group includes: Tony Kelleher, Christina Maher, Aidan Hartnett, Dave
O'Keeffe, Eoin O'Sullivan, Eric Browne, Marjorie Lynch, Brian Maher and
Andrew Maher