Olive Loughnane

Olive Loughnane ( born January 14, 1976 in Cork) is an Irish athlete who in 2009 reached the second place at the World Championships in the 20 - km walk.

Olive Loughnane won at the 1998 Irish Championships in the 10 - km walk. In 2000, she appeared at the Olympic Games in Sydney over 20 km of walking and was ranked 35th in the next few years Loughnane get rankings in the advanced world class with 13th place at the 2001 World Championships and the European Championships 2002 and the twelfth place at the 2003 World Championships. After a few years with no result at the season's climax and the birth of her daughter in 2006, she reached at the 2007 World Championships 17th place the seventh place finish at the 2008 Olympics meant Loughnanes final breakthrough in the world-class, with 1:27:45 hours they put while her fourth Irish national record on. In Berlin at the 2009 World Championships she won by 49 seconds behind the Russian Olga Kaniskina second place and thus won her first medal at a major international event.

At a height of 1.60 meters to her competition weight is 50 kilograms. Her sister Ann Loughnane is also race walker.