These athletes are proving that age is just a number

Rita de Brún tries to catch up with Eamon Coghlan and the senior athletes featured on his TV series

THE age-defying achievements of three-time Olympian and world champion runner Eamonn Coghlan are the stuff of legend. At 22, he set a record for running a sub-four-minute mile, then did the same again at 41.

That’s just one of the reasons the 63-year-old has the perfect credentials to present Setanta’s Super Fit Seniors series. In that, he’s a veritable boy amongst men, training as he does with some of Ireland’s oldest athletes.