Aoife Cooke
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Nationality | Irish |
Born | Cork, Ireland | 13 September 1986
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Sport | Track and Field |
Event(s) | Marathon |
Aoife Cooke (born 13 September 1986) is an Irish national champion long-distance runner.[1]
She qualified for the Marathon race at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics when she won the Cheshire Elite Marathon women's race on 25 April 2021. In doing so she improved her personal best by almost four minutes to 2:28:36 becoming only the fifth Irish woman to break 2:30. It was also Cooke's first marathon since the 2019 Dublin Marathon, 18 months previously, where she also won the national title that came with being the top Irish woman. [2] At the Olympics in Tokyo Cooke struggled in the hot and humid conditions and did not finish the marathon.[3]
Personal life[]
She is a lesbian.[4]
References[]
- ^ "Aoife COOKE | Profile". worldathletics.org.
- ^ "Aoife Cooke smashes Tokyo target and runs a new marathon best". www.irishtimes.com.
- ^ https://www.corkbeo.ie/sport/corks-aoife-cooke-posts-heartfelt-21252912
- ^ O'Riordan, Ian. "Cooke leads the fight for gay and lesbian inclusiveness in athletics". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Irish female long-distance runners
- Irish female marathon runners
- Sportspeople from Cork (city)
- LGBT sportspeople from Ireland
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- LGBT track and field athletes
- Lesbian sportswomen
- Olympic athletes of Ireland
- 21st-century LGBT people
- Irish athletics biography stubs