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Mesfin and Addunyaa Dublin Marathon winners
Ava Crean, 19, improved her personal best by over nine minutes to win the women's national marathon title in 2:34:11, becoming Ireland's youngest champion.
- On October 26, 2025, 19-year-old Ava Crean won the women's national title in Dublin in a personal best 2:34.11, breaking clear approaching 30km and raising her arms as she finished.
- Beginning during Covid, Crean took up running to keep fit, enrolled at University Academy 92 last year, and ran her first marathon in Manchester months ago under John Kinsella, coach of Back 2 Boston Running Club.
- Passing 10km in 36:51, Crean and incumbent Ann-Marie McGlynn ran together and Crean led at halfway in 1:17:13 before opening a small, decisive gap with splits of 1:49:51 to 1:50:05.
- Crean's result moves her onto the 2025 national leaderboard, placing second behind Fionnuala McCormack and she says, `I registered for the Boston Marathon in April and I'm just kind of waiting to see if I get accepted into that.`
- There was a record turnout of 22,500 entrants on a chilly, damp October day; Ethiopian-born athletes swept the women's podium, Daniel Mesfin won the men's race in 2:08.51, and David McGlynn claimed the men's national title in 2:11.01.
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Limerick teenager Ava Crean and Waterford’s David McGlynn produced breakthrough performances to claim the national titles at the 44th edition of the Irish Life Dublin Marathon on Sunday, with overall victories going to Ethiopia’s Eebbissee Addunya (2:26:28) and USA’s Daniel Mesfin (2:08:51).
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