The postponement of the full marathon is due to road flooding along coastal and low-lying roads.

John Casey from Togher Athletic Club, took on his first marathon challenge at the weekend, alongside former Brazilian footballer Kaká in Berlin.

WEST MUSKERRY AC MARK THE START OF A NEW ERA

The free, timed event, is to be held at the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin on the eve of World Refugee Day.

Olympian Aoife Cooke launched the 5-kilometre Cheetah Run at Fota Wildlife Park, which marks its return on Thursday, May 19 after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.

As well as this, over 800 people have opted to plant a tree instead of collecting a t-shirt as part of the race swag.

To give Cork’s athletes, triathletes and try-something-new peeps a focus for the months ahead, The Echo has put together some of the big race days coming up over the coming months.

CLODAGH Walsh, a third-year marketing student at Munster Technological University has been named as Cork City Sports Athletic Person of the Month for June 2021. Last month, Walsh, a 21-year-old pole-vaulter from Mallow, jumped a season's best of ...

Almost €5,000 has been raised in three days for well-known Cork wheelchair athlete Jerry Forde, who needs a new race chair after his current chair was badly damaged in a road incident. Jerry was involved in a collision with a car while training.