Cork All-Time Male and Female Marathon Standings
Top 10 Cork All-Time Male and Female Marathon Standings
Compiled by John Walshe
(with amendment by John Quigley)
as at November 13th 2018
Sonia O'Sullivan running in 2005 Flora London Marathon | Mark Carroll - Photo: Brendan Moran / Sportsfile |
John Walshe has compiled a list of the top 10 All-Time Marathon standings by Cork men and women. The list is a 'work-in-progress', so if you can shine some light on omissions or corrections, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - He'll be delighted to hear from you!
Update Nov 13th 2018
Ricky Burke's (St. Finbarr's AC) 1987 Belfast Marathon time (2:19:24) has been added, placing Ricky 6th on the List, and dropping Micheal Walsh out of the top 10.
Note: These lists comprise only of Cork-born athletes. There are many athletes who are not included in the list, even though they may have spent much of their lives in Cork, but who were born elsewhere, whether it was an other Irish county, or abroad.
Family Connections
Notable features of the listings are family relations, with father and daughter Richard (R.I.P.) and Jill Hodgins, brothers Michael and Donie Walsh, and husband & wife Martin and Claire McCarthy.
Top 10 Women's Listing
The Women's list makes interesting reading, with no less than six clubs represented. Many of the names will be familiar to all, however there are one or two that may not be so, like Brid Murphy and Valerie Vaughan
Rank | Forename | Surname | Club | Time | Location | Year |
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1 | Sonia | O'Sullivan | Ballymore-Cobh AC | 02:29:01 | London | 2005 |
2 | Lizzie | Lee | Leevale AC | 02:32:51 | Berlin | 2015 |
3 | Claire | McCarthy | Leevale AC | 02:38:00 | Berlin | 2016 |
4 | Brid | Murphy | Leevale AC | 02:43:00 | Dublin | 1992 |
5 | Aoife | Cooke | Youghal AC | 02:46:37 | Amsterdam | 2017 |
6 | Jill | Hodgins | Leevale AC | 02:46:58 | Seville | 2012 |
7 | Valerie | Vaughan | Blarney-Inniscarra AC | 02:47:56 | London | 2004 |
8 | Emma | Murphy | St Finbarrs AC | 02:50:16 | Rotterdam | 2014 |
9 | Nollaig | O'Neill (Hunter) | Leevale AC | 02:50:22 | Cork | 2014 |
10 | Joyce | Curtin-Miller | East Cork AC | 02:50:28 | Houston | 2016 |
Top 11 Men's Listing
The men's listing reads like a Leevale AC 'Tour de Force' with nine of the ten held by Leevale AC athletes. Again some of the names will be familiar to all, but quite a few will not, like Sean Healy's 1971 performance - 47 years ago, which places him at Number 2 on the All-Time list, Sean O'Flynn, at Number 5, (1982) and Michael Walsh's 1983 performance on 'home soil', right here in Cork
Rank | Forename | Surname | Club | Time | Location | Year |
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1 | Mark | Carroll | Leevale AC | 02:10:54 | New York | 2003 |
2 | Sean | Healy | Leevale AC | 02:15:03 | Nigeria | 1971 |
3 | Donie | Walsh | Leevale AC | 02:15:21 | Athlone | 1972 |
4 | Martin | McCarthy | Leevale AC | 02:18:45 | Berlin | 2003 |
5 | Sean | O'Flynn | Leevale AC | 02:19:05 | Virginia | 1982 |
6 | Ricky | Burke | St Finbarr's AC | 02:19:24 | Belfast | 1987 |
7 | Alan | O'Shea | Bantry AC | 02:19:35 | Cannes | 2011 |
8 | Tony | O'Leary | Leevale AC | 02:19:43 | Dublin | 1988 |
9 | Dick | Hodgins | Leevale AC | 02:19:46 | Galway | 1975 |
10 | Mark | Hanrahan | Leevale AC | 02:19:52 | Rotterdam | 2016 |
11 | Michael | Walsh | Leevale AC | 02:20:23 | Cork | 1983 |