Rose-Anne Galligan (born 9 December 1987) is an

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athlete. She competes in the

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and the

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, where she is the Irish national record holder with a time of 2:00.58.

Career

Galligan is a former Irish schools champion. Galligan attended university at the

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, where she competed on the athletics team. In the

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at the 2007

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(NCAA) Championships Athletics finals, she was the opening runner on the silver medal winning team. In January the following year, Galligan finished second in the final of the 1500 metres at the Irish Indoor Athletics Championships, behind

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. At the 2009 European Athletics Under-23 Championships, Galligan ran a personal best time of 4:14.84 to qualify for the

final, where she finished sixth. Just over a week later, she ran a personal best time to win the 800 metres at the BMC Gold Standard Races in

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. Her time of 2:05.14 was an improvement of more than a second on her previous best. She won the 800 metres at the Irish national championships in early August, and on 29 August, won the 2009 Antwerp Athletics Gala 800 metres ahead of Camilla De Bleecker. Galligan qualified for the 1500 metres 2010 World Indoor Championships in Athletics held in

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. She failed to progress further than the heats after finishing eighth. In July 2010, she won the 800 metres at the AAI Senior Track and Field Championships. She missed most of 2012 due to illness, later revealed to have been low-level

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caused by her

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. At the London Diamond League Anniversary Games on 27 July 2013, Galligan broke

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's 19-year-old Irish national record in the 800 metres; running a time of 2:00.58, she finished sixth in the race. At the

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, Galligan failed to reach the semifinals of the

, after finishing seventh in her heat. Galligan competed at the

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. Despite running a season's best, she failed to progress past the first round of the

after finishing last in her heat.

2014-2015

References

External links

IAAF profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Galligan, Roseanne 1987 births Irish female middle-distance runners Living people People from Newbridge, County Kildare Athletes from County Dublin