The Wellington Monument in Phoenix Park – the race venue
Date
Mid-April
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Event type
Road
Distance
10 km
Established
2003
Official site
www.greatirelandrun.ie
The Great Ireland Run is an annual 10-kilometre road running competition which is held in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland in mid-April.[1] It is part of the Great Run series of athletics competitions. It is sponsored by SPAR and features both an elite race and a popular race.[2]
The 10 km race course begins at Chesterfield Avenue and loops around in a clock-wise circuit to finish on Furze Road.[3] A 2.5 km fun run for 8–15-year-old runners is also featured on the programme of events.[4] Over 11,000 people took part in the day's events in 2010.[5] The elite races in 2010 also doubled up as the Irish 10K Championships.[6]
Past participants have included former marathon world record holder Paul Tergat,[7] and World Championship medalist Craig Mottram, as well as some of Ireland's foremost athletes such as 1995 World Champion Sonia O'Sullivan and cross country specialist Catherina McKiernan. The course record holders are both Ethiopian – Kenenisa Bekele with his 27:49-minute run in 2012 and Meselech Melkamu with her record of 31:41 set in 2006.[8]
The 2023 edition was marred in farce and controversy when the course for all participants ended 1.5km shorter than the 10km distance. This was due to poor planning arising from competitors being directed the wrong way near the start of the route, and no fail-safe to remedy such a situation once it occurred. Athletics Ireland issued a statement "apologising for the unforeseen circumstances" which led to the course distance running short.[9]
^Race History. Great Ireland Run. Retrieved on 25 April 2010.
^Fagan and Murray nab 10Km victories in Dublin. IAAF (19 April 2010). Retrieved on 25 April 2010.
^Great Ireland Run Course Map Archived 15 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Great Ireland Run. Retrieved on 25 April 2010.
^Junior Great Ireland Run Archived 20 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Great Ireland Run. Retrieved on 25 April 2010.
^Great day for a run as 11,000 take over park . The Irish Independent (19 April 2010). Retrieved on 25 April 2010.
^SPAR Great Ireland Run Archived 21 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Athletics Ireland (18 April 2010). Retrieved on 25 April 2010.
^Cullen comes second in Dublin run . BBC Sport (5 April 2009). Retrieved on 25 April 2010.
^Martin, David (15 April 2012). Bekele sparkles with 27:49 10km in Dublin. IAAF. Retrieved on 21 April 2012.
^O'Riordan, Ian (16 April 2023). "Great Ireland Run: Athletics Ireland apologises as Phoenix Park 10k accidentally becomes an 8.5k". The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
The GreatIrelandRun is an annual 10-kilometre road running competition which is held in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland in mid-April. It is part of the...
established GreatRun races in the Republic of Ireland, Ethiopia and Australia. per person, in teams of four. Great Australian RunGreat Capital RunGreat Swim...
In his first race of 2013 he won the GreatIrelandRun for a second time. Kenenisa then won the Great North Run half marathon in a time of 60:09, beating...
Irish people in Great Britain or British Irish are immigrants from the island of Ireland living in Great Britain as well as their British-born descendants...
finish at the Great South Run 10-mile race in October. A foot injury interrupted the start of 2012, but she returned to the GreatIrelandRun in April and...
north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles...
Irish warpipes (Irish: píob mhór; literally "great pipes") are an Irish analogue of the Scottish great Highland bagpipe. "Warpipes" is originally an English...
represented Great Britain internationally in cross country, road and track events. She has won at three of the GreatRun series events: the GreatIrelandRun, Great...
people from Northern Ireland may compete for either Great Britain or Ireland at the Olympic Games. The region that is now Northern Ireland was long inhabited...
Ireland (Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of...
silver at the 2005 Summer Universiade. She was the 2007 winner of the GreatIrelandRun. She represented Australia at the Olympics at the 2008 Beijing Games...
United States in the mid-19th century because of The Great Famine in Ireland. Some of the first Irish people to travel to the New World did so as members...
Australia to third on the team podium. She finished third at the 2010 GreatIrelandRun, recording a time of 34:28. In spite of a break of over three years...
became King of England and King of Ireland. Since James's reign, who had been the first to refer to himself as "king of Great Britain", a political union between...
results were from 2009 and 2010 when she won the GreatIrelandRun in 2010 and the Great Yorkshire Run in both 2009 and 2010 setting the course record...
(including HS1) Great British Railways is planned to operate in the existing areas of Network Rail, i.e. England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland – where...
Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland. Railways on the island of Ireland are run by Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) within Ireland and Northern Ireland Railways...
wrestling promotions in Great Britain and Ireland, including England, Scotland, Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the Isle of Man and...
Marin Ireland is an American actress. Known for her work in theatre and independent films, The New York Times deemed Ireland "one of the great drama queens...
connection "to a road in any part of Great Britain"; no similar exemption is listed at the beginning of 2014 for Northern Ireland, which has a single inhabited...
Figures in Irish mythology include the following: Aengus - god possibly associated with love, youth and poetic inspiration Áine - goddess of love, summer...
coastlines of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Ireland, and Great Britain. The bird was 75 to 85 centimetres (30 to 33 inches) tall...
Straight Blast Gym Ireland (also known as SBG Ireland) is a mixed martial arts academy and professional team based in Dublin, Ireland. It is run by John Kavanagh...
Irish athletes have competed in every Summer Olympics edition of the modern era, either in its own right or as part of a Great Britain and Ireland team...
Global Information