{"id":6009,"date":"2015-10-20T15:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/?p=6009"},"modified":"2015-10-20T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:02:07","slug":"marcus-osullivan-visits-ennis-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/marcus-osullivan-visits-ennis-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus O’Sullivan visits Ennis Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

The great Marcus O’Sullivan on a recent visit to Ennis Track Athletic Club, where he met with Head Coach Pat Hogan and spoke to our middle-distance athletes training in Flannan’s.<\/p>\n

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\nMarcus is one of Ireland’s most famous middle-distance runners. He competed at four Olympic Games for Ireland: 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996, at both 800m and 1500m. He also won 3 gold medals at the World Indoor Championships over 1500m. His real speciality was the mile, for which his personal best of 3:50.94 was set indoors in 1988. O’Sullivan, along with fellow Irish runners Ray Flynn, Eamonn Coghlan and Frank O’Mara established the still-standing world record in the 4 x 1 mile relay, when they combined in Dublin on August 17, 1985 to run 15:49.08. He is now Head Coach of Cross Country and Track & Field at Villanova University, Philadelphia, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The great Marcus O’Sullivan on a recent visit to Ennis Track Athletic Club, where he met with Head Coach Pat Hogan and spoke to our middle-distance athletes training in Flannan’s. Marcus is one of Ireland’s most famous middle-distance runners. He competed at four Olympic Games for Ireland: 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996, at both 800m and 1500m. He also won 3 gold medals at the World Indoor Championships over 1500m. His real speciality was the mile, for which his personal best of 3:50.94 was set indoors in 1988. O’Sullivan, along…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":6013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ennistrackathleticclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}