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Sonia O'Sullivan (born 28 November 1969, in Cobh, County Cork) is an Irish former athlete. She began her running career in Ballymore Running Club which is located in the eastern side of Cobh Town. She was one of the world's leading female 5000 m runners for most of the 1990s and early 2000s. Her crowning achievement was a gold medal in the 5000 m at the 1995 World Athletics Championships. She won silver medals in the 5000 m at the 2000 Olympic Games and in the 1500 m at the 1993 World Championships. She also won three European Championship gold medals and two World Cross-Country Championship gold medals. On 14 February 2007 O'Sullivan said she planned to hang up her spikes after the Great Ireland Run on 15 April, having said the previous year that she intended to run competitively until the 2012 Olympic Games in London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sonia clears up confusion over retirement )〕 O'Sullivan later dismissed the rumours that she was retiring after the BUPA Great Ireland Run, adding that she would be retiring at the end of the 2007 season.〔 In 2012 O'Sullivan carried the Olympic flame when it arrived in Dublin on the 6th of June. She carried the flame onto St. Stephen's Green. She lit an Olympic cauldron on the stage in St.Stephens Green. For the Olympics in 2012 Sonia was made Chef De Mission for Team Ireland. She is known for her dramatic kick at the end of races, clocking 28-second final 200 m splits in some of her races.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sonia O'Sullivan Interview on Marathon Talk Podcast )〕 == Early years == Sonia O'Sullivan's first major international competition was the 1990 European Championships at Split, where she finished 11th in the 3000 m. However, O'Sullivan improved quickly after that, and on 26 January the following year, at Boston, she set a new world indoor record in the 5000 m of 15:17.28, taking more than 5 seconds off the old record. At the time, O'Sullivan (who attained a sporting scholarship) was studying accountancy at the Villanova University in the USA, and at the World Student Games at Sheffield in July 1991, she won the 1500 m Gold Medal in 4:12.14, and the Silver Medal in the 3000 m in 8:56.55. At the start of 1992, she finished 7th in the World Cross Country Championships. In 1992, O'Sullivan improved her personal bests in a number of distances between 800 m and 5000 m, setting six Irish national records in the process, including five in the space of 11 days in mid-August following the Barcelona Olympic Games. At Barcelona, in the 3000 m final, O'Sullivan was always in contention, and hit the lead in the back straight on the final lap, but she was eventually outsprinted and finished fourth. Narrowly missing out on an Olympic medal was made all the more frustrating when the silver medalist from the race Tatyana Dorovskikh tested positive for a banned substance the following year.() In the 1500 m, she finished only 11th in her semi-final and did not qualify for the final. She finished 1992 by winning the Grand Prix Final for the 5000 m. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sonia O'Sullivan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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