Fionnuala On Track For 2020 Olympics

It was another fine and very fast day for Kilcoole’s Fionnuala McCormack this week, as she beat her own marathon record in Chicago.

Coming in fifth where first place went to a world record-beating Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei, who shattered Paula Radcliffe’s 16-year-old women’s marathon world record.

Kosgei clocked in at 2:14:4, beating Radcliffe’s 2013 record of 2:15:25 at the London Marathon.

McCormack shaved almost four minutes of her previous personal best, and thanks to that finishing time of 2:26:47, the Kilcoole runner is now second on the Irish all-time list, behind Catherina McKiernan.

The Chicago Marathon result secures the 35-year-old Kilcooler – who has a habit of breaking records – her place at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.