Cork Athletics Road Race 2018 Leaderboards: An East Cork Perspective

Cork Athletics have a detailed leaderboard of all registered road races that have taken place on Cork soil throughout the year on their website that is a great indication of where the local standard of road running is at. While the level of these road races is a far cry from the National standard it is a good indication of how you fair against your peers and stirs up some local rivalry (https://www.corkathletics.org/news/1182-cork-road-race-leaderboard-december-2018.html).

Our Top Dogs:
East Cork AC is proud to have three men on top of the leaderboards: Kevin O'Brien (4k - 12.58) , Michael Harty (4 Mile - 19.15) and James McCarthy (5 Mile - 25.14)

- Kevin O'Brien ran 12.58 in January in the Cloyne Commons 4k and since then many have tried but all have failed to match his time.
- Michael Harty ran a rip roaring 19.15 to hold off an Olympian and also the 8 time King of Ballintotis in April to top the 4 mile leaderboard.
- James cruised to a 25.14 on the very first day of the year in Bandon set a mark that nobody has touched in the 355 days since.

Special Mentions:
4k Overall Leaderboard: Kenneth Kelleher and Brian Harty.
4k Masters Categories: Conor Tierney, Eric Meade, Denis McCarthy and John Walshe.

5k Masters Categories: Eric Meade, Denis McCarthy and Phil McGrath.

4 Mile Overall Leaderboard: Sean McGrath (3rd), James McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Kevin O'Leary.
4 Mile Masters Category: John Hennessy, Denis McCarthy, Frank Cashman, Phil McGrath

5 Mile Overall Leaderboard: Sean McGrath (2nd).
5 Mile Masters Category: Denis McCarthy, Phil McGrath and John Walshe

10k Overall Leaderboard: Kevin O'Leary

10 Mile Overall Leaderboard: Tim O'Donoghue, James McCarthy and Kevin O'Leary

Half Marathon Overall Leaderboard: Tim O'Donoghue and Kevin O'Leary


Our Lonely Lady:​
Fiona is our one and only female representation on the leaderboards placing prominently across a range of distances from 4 miles to half marathon.
She is 3rd overall in the 4 mile with a 23.27 in Ballymacoda 4 in the summer. She also has the 6th fastest 5 mile in Cork with a 29.55 in the Midleton 5 miler. Fiona was 6th and 7th overall in the womens 10 mile leaderboard from Mallow and Duhallow. And last but not least Fiona is 8th overall in the half marathon with a 83.27 in the Cork City half in June.


Other Points:

Interestingly the 5k is probably the gold ribbon event in the calendar and we have nobody in the overall leaderboard. Although Michael did run a 14.43 earlier in the year in Kilkenny and Sean and James ran 14.58 and 15.19 in BHAA races during the year which would place them all high up on the lists.