Hiko Tonosa now proud to call Ireland home

Hiko Tonosa: Received Irish citizenship last year. Photo by Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile
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So far this year he’s trained with world and Olympic champions, he’s beaten Ireland’s best, but for Hiko Tonosa this is the day that matters most: tomorrow’s national cross country championships in Santry, and an opportunity that comes along once in a career.
Finish in the top three and the 26-year-old will earn an automatic spot on the Irish team for the European Cross Country, set to be staged on home turf in Abbotstown on December 12. Of course, for Tonosa, home has long been a fluid concept, the winds of change carrying him from Ethiopia to Japan to Ireland, his home for the last four years — his home for the foreseeable future.
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