Roisin McGettigan (born 23 August 1980 in Wicklow, Ireland) is an

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runner who specializes in the

3000 metres steeplechase The 3000 metres steeplechase or 3000-meter steeplechase (usually abbreviated as ) is the most common distance for the steeplechase in track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, a ...

. She graduated from

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in 2003. She competed in her first

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in 2008 in

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. After finishing second in her qualifying heat in the 3000 m steeplechase, she finished 14th in the final. In 2014, McGettigan was retroactively awarded the bronze medal for the

2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Turin, Italy, from Friday, 6 March to Sunday, 8 March 2009. The championships took place at the Oval Lingotto indoor arena

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

race. The winner of that race, Anna Alminova of Russia, had all her results since February 2009 cancelled due to irregularities in her biological passport. McGettigan and runner

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co-created "Believe I Am", a company which brings sports psychology techniques used by pro athletes to women through apparel and training journals.

International competitions

Personal bests

- 4:10.34 min (2003) *

Mile run The mile run (1,760 yards or exactly 1,609.344 metres) is a middle-distance foot race. The history of the mile run event began in England, where it was used as a distance for gambling races. It survived track and field's switch to ...

- 4:30.06 min (2009) *

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

- 9:03 min (2005) *

- 9:28.29 min (2007) *

5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a stan ...

- 15:57.91 min (2008)

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1980 births 20th-century Irish people 21st-century Irish people Living people Irish female long-distance runners Athletes from Dublin (city) Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Ireland Providence College alumni Irish female steeplechase runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Ireland Irish female middle-distance runners {{Ireland-athletics-bio-stub