Sonia O'Sullivan

Sonia O'Sullivan ( born November 28, 1969 in Cobh ) is an Irish long-distance runner and Olympic silver medalist.

International notoriety she gained first on the middle distance, when she won in Stuttgart in the 1500 meter race silver at the World Athletics Championships in 1993. To end of the season they won the Course de l' Escalade. At the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1994 and at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg she latched on to the gold medal in the 3000 m and 5000 m. Result, she was voted European athlete of the year.

Other highlights in her sporting career, the World Indoor Championships in Paris, where she placed 2nd over 3000m, the title at the World Cross Country Championships in 1998, the European Championships 1998 in Budapest in 1997 with gold in 5000 - and 10,000 -meter run as well as the European Championships in Munich in 2002 with two silver medals over 5000 and 10,000 meters.

An Olympic silver medal she achieved at the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000 over 5000 meters in her best time of 14:41,02 min behind the Romanian Gabriela Szabo and before the Ethiopian Gete Wami. Also in Sydney, she finished sixth in the 10,000 meters. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, she took over 5000 meters on the 14th Place.

In the last years of her career she was also successful in road races. 1998 and 2002 they won the Great North Run. In 2000, she won the Avon Running Championship in Milan and remained with 30:59 min over 10 kilometers as the fourth woman ever on an asphalt track under 31 minutes. In the fall she decided the Dublin Marathon as far last locals for itself.

After the majority of the season had to pause in 2001, she presented in 2002 at the Great South Run a course record, came at the World Half Marathon Championships in Brussels on 14th and Eleventh was at the New York City Marathon. In 2003, she won the premiere of the Great Ireland runs and defended her title at the Great South Run.

In 2004 she won the Great Manchester Run and finished fourth at the World Half Marathon Championships in New Delhi. At the London Marathon 2005, she was eighth.

Since then her injuries made ​​to create increasingly, they announced their withdrawal from the power port for the end of 2007.

Sonia O'Sullivan has, since 2006, the citizenship of their adopted home of Australia, where she lives with her husband and manager Nick Bideau, the discoverer and former partner of Cathy Freeman, and her two daughters.

Personal Best

  • 800 m: 2:00,69 min, July 28, 1994 St. Petersburg
  • 1000 m: 2:34,66 min, 2nd May 1993, Villeneuve d'Ascq
  • 1500 m: 3:58,85 min, July 25, 1995, Monaco Hall: 4:11,27 min, March 10, 2001, Lisbon
  • Hall: 8:44,37 min, March 10, 2001, Lisbon
  • Hall: 15:17,28 min, January 26, 1991, Boston
Long-distance running 1993 World Championships in Athletics 1994 European Athletics Championships 1995 World Championships in Athletics 3000 metres 5000 metres European Athlete of the Year Trophy 1998 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 1998 European Athletics Championships 2002 European Athletics Championships 2002 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships New-York-City-Marathon 2004 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships London-Marathon Middle-distance running#1000 m Mile run Tirunesh Dibaba Yelena Romanova Fernanda Ribeiro Yvonne Murray Olga Golovkina
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