Name: Brian Murphy

Height: 1.86m

Weight: 77kg

Location: Cork

Coach: John Coghlan

Stats:
100m 11.06 (In Iceland!)
150m 15.8h
200m 21.70
400m 47.13
600m 1.18.5

Clean: 107.5kg
Snatch: 82.5kg
Squat (90 degrees): 180kg
Deadlift: 200kg
Bench: 42.5kg DB (Don’t do anymore)
Standing Long Jump 3.42m

How did you get into running? I started running when I was 8 years old. Like most kids I was in to a lot of sports but I just like racing people more than team sports. My Dad’s family had been involved in athletics and he had told me about running for an athletics club. So after a few weeks annoying him, he took me and my sister to the Mardyke track and I’ve been involved in the sport ever since.

Interests: Outside athletics I would be interested in music in particular. I played bass in a band for a few years but unfortunately we never got signed. I was your typical rubbish punk rock bass player but the other guys were actually very good.

As regards other sports I enjoy watching rugby in particular and would be a Munster Rugby fan. I’m also into art, architecture and furniture design. I work as a web designer in Cork .