O’Callaghan latest figure to make Lausanne move

PIERCE O’CALLAGHAN has become the third high-profile Irish sports administrator to move to Lausanne in Switzerland following his appointment to the post of director of communications with the European Athletics Association (EAA).

The 30-year-old Meathman, a former race walker, has held every national title in this discipline from Community Games right up to his three national senior titles. He won national titles at 10k and 20k and posted his Olympic qualifying time for Sydney in 1999 but had to pull out of the team and retire from race walking the following year suffering from chronic fatigue.

“It was heartbreaking at the time,” he recalled yesterday.