Olympic dream comes true for McCambridge

The Irish Olympic team has a new member with Maria McCambridge securing qualification for the London Games at the Rome Marathon yesterday.

McCambridge (Letterkenny AC) posted a time of 2:36:37 and joins Linda Byrne (Dundrum South Dublin AC) 2:36:23 and Ava Hutchinson (Dundrum South Dublin AC) 2:35:33 as the third Irish women to achieve the marathon standard for London. McCambridge reached the halfway mark in 1:17:37 and despite a slight dip in pace, finished strongly to come home comfortably inside the Olympic A standard of 2:37.

Meanwhile a number of the elite Irish race walkers recorded impressive performances at the Lugano Grand Prix in Switzerland.