Sinead Diver is an Irish-Australian long-distance runner.
12 Facts About Sinead Diver
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Sinead Diver attended a conservative Catholic school in the small Irish town where academics were the priority and they didn't encourage girls to participate in athletics, aside from playing a little basketball at lunch.
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Sinead Diver lived in Ireland until the age of 25 before moving to Melbourne, Australia in 2002.
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Sinead Diver competed in the marathon event at both the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing and the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London.
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Sinead Diver started running in 2010 at the age of 33 after the birth of her elder son.
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Sinead Diver won the 2018 Melbourne Marathon in a time of 2:25:17.
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Sinead Diver set a new personal best of 2:24:11 at the 2019 London Marathon where she was the seventh woman to finish.
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Sinead Diver was fourteenth in the 10,000 metres at the 2019 IAAF World Championships.
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Sinead Diver's time of 31:25.49 was an over-40s world record.
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Sinead Diver was fifth at the 2019 New York City Marathon in a time of 2:26:23 Diver was running 2020 Nagoya Women's Marathon as a pacemaker, helping Mao Ichiyama to set new course record and personal best.
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Sinead Diver narrowly missed out to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics due to injury.
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Sinead Diver ran a time of 2:21:34 at the 2022 Valencia Marathon, thus setting a new Australian and Continental record at age 45.