LIMERICK’S John Kinsella has received a dream international call up and will represent Ireland at the 2025 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Canfranc-Pirones, Spain next month (September 25-28).
The inspirational athlete from Southill will join Luke Weldon (Wicklow), Enda Cloake (Wexford), and Gavin Byrne of Dublin as Team Ireland in the Short Trail (45k 3657m) event.
“This has been a longheld goal of mine, and now to have been officially selected brings huge personal satisfaction,” said Kinsella. “I am hugely looking forward now to the training programme outlined for us over the next weeks.”
At the outset of the summer, he was a member of the Ireland selection that finished third at the Inter-Celtic Mountain Running Championships in Brittany, France.
Kinsella is the only person in the world over 40 to have completed all six World Marathon Majors (Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New York, and Tokyo) in under a hugely impressive 2 hours 30 minutes.
Kinsella, along with Rathkeale’s Emmet McNamara, has also been selected for action at the World Masters Running Championships in Meduno Valley, Italy at the end of the month.
Rathkeale’s Emmet McNamara – who runs for Dundrum AC, County Tipperary – will compete in the M35 (over 35) and John Kinsella of Southill in the M45.
Both will compete over a challenging 14km course.
