Cork City Sports Athlete of the Month of February 2020 - Charlie O'Donovan

Charlie O'Donovan is Cork City Sports Athlete of the Month for February 2020

River Lee Hotel

Wednesday August 5th 2020

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Charlie O'Donovan, Leevale AC is Cork City Sports Athlete of the Month for February 2020

The award was presented at a function at the River Lee hotel, on Wednesday August 5th 2020

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The Cork City Sports Athlete for the Month of February 2020 is Charlie O'Donovan, Leevale AC

Cork City Sports Athlete of the Month - February 2020 - Award Citation

Charlie O'Donovan (University of Villanova and LeevaleAC) receives the Cork City Sports athlete award for the month of February.

Running at the David Hemery Invitational indoor meet, at Boston University, Charlie dipped under the magical 4 minute barrier to win the mile race. His time of 3:58.95 means Charlie now joins an illustrious list of Irish sub 4 minute milers.

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John Walshe writes:

After a break of over six months, the Cork City Sports Athlete of the Month Awards resumed with the recipients for February, March and April receiving their presentations at The River Lee hotel.

Liam O’Brien, Technical Director of the Cork City Sports and one of the selectors, said it was under very unusual circumstances due to the little activity that had taken place since March that it was possible to honour the people present. He praised Cork City Sports Chairman, Tony O’Connell, saying he was very keen in continuing the monthly awards which have now been on the go for over a dozen years.

Charlie O'Donovan (University of Villanova and Leevale) received the Athlete of the Month Award for February. Running at the David Hemery Invitational indoor meet at Boston University, Charlie dipped under the magical four-minute barrier to win the one mile race. His time of 3.58.95 means Charlie now joins an illustrious list of Irish sub-four-minute milers.

As anyone who viewed the video of the race, the look on Charlie’s face when he crossed the line at the Boston meeting said it all, as he described: “The race went very well, I was in the third heat and although the second heat was supposed to be faster, my race was ideal as I was near the front all the way and only took the lead with about 80 metres to go. I had run 4:02 two weeks before, so to improve four seconds was great.”

Charlie became the 42nd athlete from Villanova to break the four minutes, joining such illustrious names as Ronnie Delany and Eamonn Coghlan plus fellow Corkmen John Hartnett, Marcus O’Sullivan and Ken Nason. Marcus is now Charlie’s coach at Villanova while Ken looked after him before his move to the famed Pennsylvania university.