Thomas Brendan O'Riordan (12 July 1937 – 20 June 2022) was an Irish

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who competed at the

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Biography

O'Riordan finished second behind

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in the 3 miles event at the

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. At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, he represented Ireland in the men's 5000 metres. O'Riordan ran collegiately at

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, where he won the 1959 NAIA Men's Cross Country Championship individual title. O'Riordan was inducted into the Idaho State University Hall of Fame in 1979. He later worked for many years as the athletics correspondent for the

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. O'Riordan died on 20 June 2022 at the age of 84.

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* 1937 births 2022 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics Irish male long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Ireland Idaho State University alumni Idaho State Bengals men's track and field athletes Athletes from County Kerry People from Ardfert 20th-century Irish sportsmen {{Ireland-athletics-bio-stub