Cork City Sports Athletics Person of the Month May 2016
Donie Walsh is Cork City Sports Athletics Person of the Month for May 2016
The Cork City Sports Athlete of the Month Award is sponsored by 96FM/C103FM, The Evening Echo and The River Lee
Photo: Cork City Sports
Donie in his heyday, with his ever-present distinctive bandana
Photo: Leevale AC
Donie, pictured at a previous awards ceremony, with his protoge, Lizzie Lee, who also heads to Rio
Photo: Leevale AC
Update - September 30th 2016
At the time of the original award ceremony, Donie was incapacitated, in hospital, following a fall, as a consequence,a special presentation ceremony was held in the River Lee, on September 30th
Tony O'Connell, Cork City Sports, presenting Donie Walsh with his award
Cork City Sports Athletics Person of the Month - May 2016 - Award Citation
May - Forty Four years after representing Ireland at the Munich Olympics, in 1972, Donie Walsh (Leevale AC) receives the Cork City Sports Cork Athletic Person for the Month of May following his selection as Distance Coach to the 2016 Irish Olympic team in Rio de Janerio.
Donie's greatest successes came in the early 1970s, when he won five National 10000m Championships on the track, in six years He represented Ireland in the Marathon at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. He won numerous other cross country and track & field titles. He was a scoring member of the Irish team that brought home the Silver medals, in the World Cross Country Championships, in 1979, on the day that John Treacy won the World Cross Country Championship Title for the second time.
Unfortunately due to an accident Donie was unable to attend the awards in person. The award was accepted on his behalf by his two sons Michael & Mark Walsh.
Photos
Photos from the Cork City Sports awards function, on Cork Athletics Flickr! account
The photos cover the March, April and May awards, which were all presented at the one awards ceremony.
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