For Diver, who first moved to Melbourne in 2002 for work purposes, it’s another age-record too, unquestionably the fastest marathon time by a 45-year-old woman. At last year’s Tokyo Olympics, Diver finished 10th in the women’s marathon, at age 44 the oldest member of the Australian athletics team.
Diver’s time has certainly been garnering as much praise, going from 2:24:11 to 2:21:11, that pervious best in London taking over a minute off the 2:25:19 she ran to win in Melbourne in 2018; that 2:24:11 was already the second fastest ever by an Irish woman. Back in 2015 she was turned down by Athletics Ireland for selection for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, even though she did have the qualifying time; the problem was Athletics Ireland had made it 45 seconds faster, and refused to consider Diver’s time.
Before London in 2019, she ran 1:08:55 for the half marathon in Japan, the fastest ever time for a woman over the age of the 40.
She is class
ianoriordan Her smile crossing the line was just wonderful to see
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