THE NAMES of 10,413 finishers in the 30th Dublin Marathon went on line at ww.dublinmarathon.ie last night.
According to the – as yet unofficial – results, two men finished the race in the over-80s category.
They were entrant number 8,592, Denis Keogh from Britain, who finished the race in five hours, four minutes and 21 seconds, and entrant number 9,808, Edward Powers of the US, who finished the race in six hours, seven minutes and four seconds.
In the women’s categories, there was just one woman to finish who was aged more than 75 years. She was entrant 10,258, Joyce Tseng of the US, who recorded a finishing time of six hours, 59 minutes and 16 seconds.
There were, however, five women who finished in the over- 70s category.
They were entrant number 5,702, Catherine O’Regan of Ireland, who finished in four hours, 21 minutes and 51 seconds; entrant 9,057, Daphne Hathaway of Britain, who finished in five hours, 21 minutes and two seconds; entrant 9,494, Thomas Morgan of Ireland, who finished in five hours, 48 minutes and nine seconds; entrant 9,705 Kathleen Garnett of Britain, who finished in five hours, 57 minutes and four seconds; and entrant 10,083, Catherine Joyce of Ireland, who finished in six hours, 35 minutes and seven seconds.
The 29 runners (28 men and one woman, Mary Hickey Nolan) who have completed every
Dublin marathon to date were presented with a special commemorative T-shirt by race director Jim Aughney before the race.
The eldest member of the pack, Paddy Craddock, a hale and hearty 74 years of age, joked that they weren’t really entitled to wear the T-shirts until after they finished this year’s marathon.
Some of the special group have gone to extreme lengths to keep their clean sheet of Dublin marathons, including completing it on crutches (due to a broken leg) and while seven months pregnant, in the case of Mary Hickey Nolan.
