Linda Byrne

Linda Byrne is a long-distance runner who represented Ireland at the 2012 Summer Olympics marathon and won team gold at the 2012 European Cross Country Championships in Budapest. She was born in County Dublin on 13 May 1986, a place where young people still run roads and rivers as if measuring themselves against distance itself. Her Olympic marathon time was 2:37:13, and her cross-country result came eighth overall among the women seniors. Those numbers belong to one body moving through air, pavement and fatigue, while Dublin remains the quiet starting point behind them.