IRELAND’S EVA HUTCHINSON clocked a personal best of 2:35:33 in this morning’s Houston Marathon, a time nearly 90 seconds inside the Olympic A qualification standard of 2:37:00.
The result means that the cross country veteran and current National Half Marathon champion will join her Dundrum South Dublin Athletic Club teammate Linda Byrne in the starting line-up for the Women’s Marathon at this summer’s Olympic Games in London.
Byrne previously achieved the qualification standard on home soil, running 2:36:21 at this year’s Dublin marathon.
Elsewhere, European Cross Country Champion Fionnuala Britton finished eighth at the Internacional de Itálica, an IAAF-sanctioned event in Sevilla, Spain.