Leevale's Lizzie Lee Books Place on Plane to Rio

                        Berlin Marathon, Sunday September 27th 2015


Lizzie Lee Celebrates after finishing Berlin Marathon
Lizzie celebrates after finishing

Lizzie Lee - Cork City Sports Star - February 2015
Lizzie Lee, receiving the February 2015 Cork City Sports Star of the Month award, pictured with Liam O'Brien and Dick Hodgkins, both Cork City Sports.

Lizzie Lee (Leevale AC) smashed her PB, with a 2:32:51, 17th place finish in today's Berlin Marathon.  In doing so she has almost certainly booked herself a place on the plane to next year's Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro.  She has certainly raised the bar, by many notches, for her Irish peers. Speaking just last week, Lizzie said that she hoped to go under 2:35.  She did that with time to spare.  She moves up to 5th place on the Irish Women's All-Time Marathon list

Lizzie's time splits show a remarkable steady pace, possibly indicating that, when 'push comes to shove', there may be a lot more to come from Lizzie.

Lizzie Lee's Berlin Marathon Splits 2015

Top 10 Women in Berlin

Pos. Name Time
1 Cherono, Gladys (KEN) 02:19:25
2 Kebede, Aberu (ETH) 02:20:48
3 Hailu, Meseret (ETH) 02:24:33
4 Bekele, Tadelech (ETH) 02:25:01
5 Deelstra, Andrea (NED) 02:26:46
6 Neuenschwander, Maja (SUI) 02:26:49
7 Nemec, Lisa (CRO) 02:27:57
8 Tanaka, Tomomi (JPN) 02:28:00
9 Samuels, Sonia (GBR) 02:28:04
10 Tola, Fate (ETH) 02:28:24

Irish Men

Mick Clohisy, Kevin Seward and Sergiu Ciobanu - Berlin 2015
On the Irish men's side, the leaders were Kevin Seaward 2:14:52, Sergiu Ciobanu 2:15:17, Mick Clohisey 2:15:35, and Paul Pollock 2:15:38
The position with regard to Rio is a lot less clear with the Irish men, with little to choose, with all the times very close to each other.  It's likely that the main players will be revisiting the Marathon in the coming months.

Pos.NameTime
1Kipchoge, Eliud (KEN)02:04:00
2Kiptanui, Eliud (KEN)02:05:21
3Lilesa, Feyisa (ETH)02:06:57
4Mutai, Emmanuel (KEN)02:07:46
5Mutai, Geoffrey (KEN)02:09:29
6Coolseat, Reid (CAN)02:10:28
7Naert, Koen (BEL)02:10:31
8Shegumo, Yared (POL)02:10:47
9Gokaya, Koji (JPN)02:10:58
10Overall, Scott (GBR)02:11:24
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