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Cooke beat her previous personal best by almost four minutes
Aoife Cooke will be Ireland s second contender in the Women s Marathon at the Tokyo Olympics.
The Cork native from Eagle AC convincingly beat the women s Olympic qualifying standard which is set at 2:29:30, by finishing in a time of 2:28:36 as she won the Cheshire Elite Marathon on Sunday.
It was also a marked improvement on her previous personal best time of 2:32:34 which she had recorded at the 2019 Dublin Marathon - her last marathon race before this Sunday s Cheshire showing.
She will join the already-qualified Fionnuala McCormack as Ireland s representatives in the women s marathon this summer. Stephen Scullion, Kevin Seaward and and Paul Pollock are the three Irish athletes who have already achieved the standard for the men s marathon.