Olympian Loughnane calls time on glittering race-walking career

Former world championship silver medallist Olive Loughnane has retired from athletics.

One of Ireland’s most successful race walkers, Loughnane enjoyed an incredible career, competing at four Olympic Games, with her best placed finished coming in Beijing in 2008 when she came seventh.

The highlight of her glittering career was undoubtedly when she was second to Russia’s Olga Kaniskina over 20km at the world championships in Berlin in 2009.