Caitriona Jennings

Caitriona Jennings, born on 17 June 1980 in Letterkenny, County Donegal, is an Irish long distance and ultra distance runner who competed in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and holds the world record for the women's 100 mile distance. She studied Law and Accountancy at the University of Limerick, worked as a tax advisor in Dublin, is a former triathlete who represented Ireland at youth level, and has been coached by Terry McConnon since 2007. She won the Dublin Mini-Marathon in 2010, ran her first marathon in Dublin in October 2011, and qualified for the Olympics with 2:36:14 at the 2012 Rotterdam Marathon.