Marie Davenport

Last updated

Marie Davenport
Born
Marie McMahon

24 January 1975
Ennistymon, Ireland
Occupationlong-distance runner

Marie Davenport (born as Marie McMahon in Ennistymon) is a long-distance runner from Ireland. She first took part in the 1996 Summer Olympics as a participant in the 5,000 metres, and later in the 2004 Summer Olympics. [1]

Davenport did not advance out of the first heat of the women's 5000 meters in the 1996 Atlanta games. She ran 15:59 for 5K in her debut games at the age of 19. [2]

Davenport finished 14th in the 2004 Olympic 10,000m final in a time of 31:50. [3]

Davenport was a 10-time NCAA All-American, NCAA Champion in the indoor 5000m, and led Providence College to their first NCAA team title in women's cross country in 1995. [4]

Davenport was an eight-time Big East Champion while attending Providence College. She also won the 5000 meters at the Penn Relays three years in a row. Davenport was inducted into the Providence College Hall of Fame in 2009. [5]

Davenport won the BAA Half Marathon in a then course record time of 1:10:57. She won the race again in 2006 in 1:12:10. [6]

Davenport ran 2:33 for 16th place in the 2005 New York City Marathon. [7]

Davenport's time of 31:28 for 10,000m ranks 3rd all time for Ireland behind Sonia O'Sullivan and Catherina McKiernan. [8]

Davenport finished 23rd in the 1996 Cross Country World Championships held in South Africa. [9]

Davenport finished 45th in the 2002 Cross Country World Championships and 77th in the 1999 World Championships. [10]

Davenport won the Women's Boston Tufts 10K in a time of 32:48 ahead of Ethiopian Genet Gebregiorgis in 2004. [11]

Davenport won the CVS Downtown 5K in 15:19 to take home the $5000 prize. [12]

After retiring from competitive running, Marie finished 4th in the Masters Division of the Boston Marathon in 2015 in the freezing rain. She ran 2:49 despite running alone into a headwind for the last 12 miles. This was Marie's last competitive race. [13]

Davenport was issued a warning by the IOC for taking a cold medicine for a stuffy nose without giving notification to her team doctor during the 1996 Olympics. The medicine was not on an IOC banned list and only required an athlete's declaration. The Irish newspapers wrongly reported that Marie could face a four-year ban which created a media frenzy. She was cleared of any wrongdoing. [14] [15] [16]

Davenport planned to compete in the New York City Marathon in 2005, but was prevented by injury. [17] [18] She won the Women's Mini Marathon, Dublin in 2007. [19] In 2012 she came second in the Guilford Frosty 5K. [20]

Davenport attended Providence College, and, as of 2012, was living with her husband and children in Guilford, Baltimore, United States. [20]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Werknesh Kidane</span> Ethiopian long-distance runner

Werknesh Kidane, is an Ethiopian long distance runner from Tigray who competes in both 5000 and 10,000 metres. She has won numerous medals at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships and represented Ethiopia at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2012. She was the silver medallist at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and a gold medallist at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Marla Lee Runyan is an American track and field athlete, road runner and marathon runner who is legally blind. She is a three-time national champion in the women's 5000 metres. She is also an athlete that competed in both the Paralympics and the Olympics, both reaching the finals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sabrina Mockenhaupt</span> German long-distance runner

Sabrina Mockenhaupt is a German long-distance runner who specialises in track events and the marathon. She is a two-time winner of the Cologne Marathon and has also won the Frankfurt Marathon and the Berlin Half Marathon. She represented Germany at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics and was the 3000 metres bronze medallist at the 2005 European Indoor Championships. She has a marathon best of 2:26:21, set at the 2010 Berlin Marathon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kara Goucher</span> American long-distance runner

Kara Goucher is an American long-distance runner. She was the 10,000 meters silver medalist at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and represented the USA at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. She made her marathon debut in 2008 and finished third the following year at the Boston Marathon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kim Smith (runner)</span> New Zealand runner

Kimberley Smith is a New Zealand middle-distance and long-distance runner who retired in 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jennifer Rhines</span> American long-distance runner

Jennifer Rhines is an American long-distance runner who competes in track, cross country and road running events. She has competed in three different Summer Olympics and made 15 US Teams.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kate Tenforde</span> American long-distance runner

Kate Tenforde is an American long-distance runner from Milton, Massachusetts. She represented the United States in the 2004 Summer Olympics, competing in the 10,000 metres.

Mary Teresa Cullen is an Irish long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metres and 5000 metres on the track, and cross country running. She holds the Irish record over 3000 m indoors.

Terrence Mahon is an American distance running coach. Mahon coaches many notable long distance and middle distance runners, including Olympians Deena Kastor, Anna Pierce, and Jen Rhines. Mahon also coached Ryan Hall for five years. In 2011 he coached Morgan Uceny to the number one world ranking in the 1500 meters, coached ultra runner Josh Cox to the second fastest 50k time in history, and guided Irishman Alistair Cragg to a new National Record in the 5,000 meters, and in 2012 coached Alistair to European and Irish records in the road 5k at the Carlsbad 5000.

Lisa Uhl is an American runner. She is a four-time NCAA Division One champion, former NCAA record holder in the 10,000 meters, and the sixth fastest American woman to ever cover that distance. She competed in the 10,000 meters in the 2012 Summer Olympics. She competed for Iowa State University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Molly Huddle</span> American long-distance runner

Molly Huddle is an American long-distance runner who competes in track and cross country running events. She held the American record in the 5000 meters set in 2014 in Monaco (14:42.64), which has since been lowered by Shannon Rowbury and Shelby Houlihan. Huddle held also the American record in the 10,000 meters set at the 2016 Rio Olympics with a time of 30:13.17, which has since been lowered by Alicia Monson.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sam Chelanga</span> Kenyan-born American long-distance runner

Samuel Chelanga is a Kenyan-born American track and field athlete who competed for Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, from 2008 to 2011. He set the NCAA record for the 10,000 meters run with a time of 27:08.49 set at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational at Palo Alto, California, on May 1, 2010. His brother, Joshua Chelanga, is a professional marathon runner.

Lauren Fleshman is an American runner, coach, author, and retired professional track and field athlete. She was the U.S. 5000 meters champion in 2006 and 2010, and competed at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 2003, 2005, and 2011. In the 5000 meter final of the 2011 IAAF World Championships she finished in 7th place, equalling what was at the time the highest ever finish by an American woman in that event.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diego Estrada (runner)</span> Mexican-American long-distance runner

Juan Diego Estrada Constantino is a Mexican-American long-distance runner. He competed in the 10,000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London for Mexico. After some confusion about his eligibility after becoming a U.S. citizen, he was excluded from the U.S. Olympic trials even though it was later known that Estrada was misinformed on his eligibility possibilities. Estrada resides in Flagstaff, Arizona.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ben True</span> American runner

Benjamin True is an American track and field and cross-country athlete, who competed for Dartmouth College and currently trains in Hanover, New Hampshire, while competing for Saucony and In the Arena. True was the top American at both the 2011 and 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, as well as the 2011 USATF Road Running Circuit Champion, winning the 5 km and 10 km Road Championships along the way.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emily Sisson</span> American long-distance runner (born 1991)

Emily Sisson is an American long-distance runner. She set the North American record in the marathon on 9 October 2022, when she ran 2:18:29 to finish second at the Chicago Marathon. Sisson also held the American record in the half marathon from May 2022 until July 2023. She represented the United States in the 10000 metres at the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships, finishing 9th and 10th. In June 2021, she won the 10000m at the 2020 US Olympic Trials and placed 10th in the 10000m final at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2024, she placed second in the marathon at the US Olympic Trials, qualifying for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jessica McClain</span> American runner

Jessica McClain is an American middle-distance and long-distance runner. As a Stanford Cardinal, Jess was a seven-time NCAA Division 1 All-American cross country and Track and field runner.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Molly Seidel</span> American long-distance runner

Molly Seidel is an American long distance runner. Seidel represented the United States at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country in 2012, 2013, and 2018. In her first-ever marathon, Seidel placed second at the 2020 U.S. Marathon Olympic Trials. Later, she went on to win the bronze medal in her third career marathon at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. At the University of Notre Dame, Seidel was a 4-time NCAA champion, 6-time NCAA All-American, 6-time Atlantic Coast Conference champion and 2016 female ACC Athlete of the Year.

Ray Treacy is a former competitive distance runner and coach of collegiate and professional runners. He began coaching track and field and cross country at Providence College in the U.S. state of Rhode Island in 1984, and became the head coach in 1986.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Isobel Batt-Doyle</span> Australian long-distance runner

Isobel Batt-Doyle is an Australian Olympic athlete.

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marie Davenport Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  2. ↑ , Olympedia
  3. ↑ , Providence College 27 August 2004
  4. ↑ , Zip06 01 January 2012
  5. ↑ , Friars.com
  6. ↑ , BAA.ORG
  7. ↑ , NYRR.ORG
  8. ↑ , Independent.ie
  9. ↑ , WebArchive.Org
  10. ↑ , Sports.org
  11. ↑ , Irish Examiner 13 October 2004
  12. ↑ , Runners Web 2 October 2004
  13. ↑ , Baltimore Sun 20 April 2015
  14. ↑ Reprieve for McMahon as IOC take lenient line, The Irish Times, 2 August 1996
  15. ↑ , The Irish Times, 27 August 2004
  16. ↑ , Olympedia
  17. ↑ Gambaccini, Peter (25 October 2005). "Marie Davenport". Runner's World. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  18. ↑ Lewis, Simon (6 November 2004). "Davenport out, Radcliffe in for New York marathon". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  19. ↑ Foley, Cliona (5 June 2007). "Davenport earns her 'mini' stripes". Independent.ie. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  20. 1 2 Greene, Nick (24 January 2012). "Guilford's Davenport an International Star". The Day. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.