Tokyo 2020: Team Ireland profiles - Fionnuala McCormack (Athletics)

McCormack has been Ireland’s most consistent distance runner of recent years

Age: 36

Event: Marathon

Club: Kilcoole AC

Back-to-back European Cross Country champion in 2011-2012, McCormack has been Ireland's most consistent distance runner of recent years, with 40 senior international appearances, Tokyo set to be her fourth Olympics. Improved her best to 2:26:47 in Chicago in 2019, before giving birth to her second daughter last December, she won't fear the distance or opposition in Sapporo.

Ian O'Riordan

Ian O'Riordan

Ian O'Riordan is an Irish Times sports journalist writing on athletics