Champion Britton sole Irish athlete at world cross-county

FIONNUALA BRITTON will be Ireland’s only representative at the world cross-country championships in Mombasa at the end of the month.

Before going into last Saturday’s national inter-club championships in Sligo she was the only athlete who declared her intention to travel after Athletics Ireland indicated they were prepared to send only the winners of the senior men’s and senior women’s races.

Her runaway victory cemented her plans and yesterday cross-country team manager Anne Keenan-Buckley said: “It is going to be very interesting to see where she will finish in a European perspective. That’s given that the Africans are in a different class.”