Ava Hutchinson (born 30 March 1983) is an Irish long distance runner who won team gold for Ireland at the

2012 European Cross Country Championships The 2012 European Cross Country Championships was the 19th edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes which was held in Szentendre, Hungary on 9 December. Andrea Lalli of Italy won the men's title to become the country ...

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. Her gold-medal-winning teammates were

Fionnuala Britton Fionnuala McCormack (née Britton; born 24 September 1984 in Wicklow) is an Irish runner who has competed at a range of distance running events. She was the gold medallist at the 2011 and 2012 European Cross Country Championships. She has repr ...

, Linda Byrne,

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, Sara Treacy and Sarah McCormack.

Biography

Hutchinson ran on the Butler cross country team from 2004 to 2006. She was the Horizon League Cross Country Athlete of the Year in 2006. She ran for track and field team from 2005 to 2007. Hutchinson qualified for the

London 2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

under the Olympic A standard after posting a time of 2:35:33 at the 2012

Houston Marathon The Houston Marathon is an annual marathon usually held every January in Houston, Texas, United States, since 1972. With thousands of runners and spectators, it is the largest single day sporting event in the city. It is run concurrently wi ...

, setting a new personal best. She is an Olympian after competing at

in the marathon. She has also twice competed in the World Cross Country championships.

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RTE Profile
1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Dublin (city) Irish female long-distance runners Olympic athletes of Ireland Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics {{Ireland-athletics-bio-stub