Fahy scorches to home marathon win

ROY FAHY (East Cork) justified favouritism for yesterday’s Champion Sports Cork City Marathon and ensured the title remained at home with a 2:33:55 victory as Cork athletes filled the first three places in a field of 8,000 runners.

Eight-time national triathlon champion Eoin O’Connell, who hails from Mallow and lives in London, sprung the surprise of the day when he snatched second place from Cathal O’Connell (St Finbarr’s) at Pope’s Quay, with last year’s runner-up, Wieslaw Sosnowski from Gdansk, finishing fourth ahead of Meathman Peter Mooney (Clonard).

It was a dream realised for Roy Fahy who had been preparing for the race since last year, when he had to give way to runaway winner Alan O’Shea and then concede second place to Sosnowski.