- Dick Hooper
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Dick Hooper Personal information Nationality Irish Born 26 August 1956
DublinHeight 5'9" (174 cm) Weight 150 lbs (68 kg) Sport Sport Running Event(s) Marathon Club Raheny Shamrock Athletic Club Medal recordCompetitor for 
IrelandMen’s Athletics Dublin Marathon Gold 1980 Dublin Marathon Men's Marathon Gold 1985 Dublin Marathon Men's Marathon Gold 1986 Dublin Marathon Men's Marathon Richard ("Dick") Hooper (born 26 August 1956) is a former long-distance runner from Raheny, Dublin, Ireland.
Career
He represented Ireland in the Olympic marathon in Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988. He also represented Ireland four times in the European Championships - in Czechoslovakia 1978, Athens 1982, Stuttgart 1986 and Split 1990.
He is a three-time record-holding winner of the Dublin Marathon in 1980, 1985 and 1988 and he set his personal best time at the 1988 Irish National Championship in Wexford, clocking 2:12:19 finishing in 2nd place behind John Woods. He went on to win a record six national marathon championships winning his last in 1998 at the age of 42.
He is the younger brother of marathoner Pat Hooper.[1][2]
Achievements
- All results regarding marathon, unless stated otherwise
Year Competition Venue Position Notes Representing Ireland1978 Irish National Marathon Championship Tullamore 
Gold(2:23:19)[3] 1978 1978 European Championships in Athletics Czechoslovakia Unknown unknown 1980 Dublin Marathon Dublin Gold(2:16:14) 1980 Irish National Marathon Championship Tullamore Gold2:16:27 [4] 1980 Moscow Olympics Moscow 38th place 2:23:53 1981 Irish National Marathon Championship Cork Gold2:15:37[5] 1982 Irish National Marathon Championship Limerick Gold2:12:56 [6] 1982 1982 European Championships in Athletics – Men's Marathon Athens 11th place 2:20:51 1984 Irish National Marathon Championship Cork Gold(2:14:39)[7] 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Los Angeles 51st place 2:24:41[8] 1985 Dublin Marathon Dublin Gold2:13:48 1986 Dublin Marathon Dublin Gold2:18:10[9] 1986 1986 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon Stuttgart 16th place 2:17.45 1987 1987 Dublin Marathon Dublin 
Bronzeunknown 1988 Irish National Marathon Championship Wexford 
Silver2:12:19 PB[10] 1988 Seoul Olympics Seoul 24th place 2:17:16[11][12] 1990 1990 European Championships in Athletics – Men's Marathon Split 23rd place 2:32.36 1998 Irish National Marathon Championship Killenaule Gold(2:22:08)[13] 1998 New York City Marathon New York 34th place 2:22:46[14] References
- ^ sports-reference
- ^ My Club: Raheny Shamrock AC by IAN O'RIORDAN, published by The Irish Times - Monday, October 26, 1998
- ^ National Champions statistics
- ^ National Champions statistics
- ^ National Champions statistics
- ^ National Champions statistics
- ^ National Champions statistics
- ^ http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ssathm42.html
- ^ National Champions statistics
- ^ National Champions statistics
- ^ Irish Olympians
- ^ http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/stathm42.html#1988
- ^ National Champions statistics
- ^ 1998 New York Marathon results
Categories:- 1956 births
- Living people
- Irish long-distance runners
- Raheny
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Ireland
- Irish athletics biography stubs
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