FINN VALLEY ATHLETIC CLUB are delighted to announce that the 2009 European indoor 3,000m bronze medalist Mary Cullen will compete in the Annual St Stephen‘s Day 5k.
In previous years, the likes of 2012 double-Olympic champion Mo Farah has been involved in the event in the Twin Towns, as have Team Sky professional cyclist Philip Deignan and Ireland’s two-time RBS Women’s Six Nations winning scrum-half Larissa Muldoon.
Cullen, a native of Sligo, competed in the 5,000m she finished twelfth at the 2006 European Championships, and competed without reaching the final at the 2007 World Championships. In the 3,000m event she finished seventh at the 2007 European Indoor Championships.
Full details of the St Stephen’s Day 5k at Finn Valley Athletic Club, which starts at 12 noon
She just missed out on the medals with a fourth position finish at the 2008 European Cross Country Championships, ending up two seconds behind bronze medalist Inês Monteiro and suffered a calf injury a few months later and missed the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a result.
Cullen broke Sonia O’Sullivan’s indoor 3,000m national record at the Valentine Invitation Meet in Boston, Massachusetts. Her time of 8:43.74 was the fifth fastest that year in the world and she was selected as Ireland’s athlete of the month. She won the bronze at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships the following month.
She is coached by Providence College’s Ray Tracey.
