Cian McPhillips’ win in the DCU 800 at this summer’s Morton Games received the ‘inspirational performance on Irish soil’ award at yesterday’s, November 26, annual Athletics Ireland awards lunch held at the Crown Plaza hotel in Santry.

McPhillips won the 800 at this summer’s World Athletics Continental tour meet in Morton Stadium from a top-class field, his winning time of 1.44.19 was not only a meet and Stadium record but was the qualifying standard for the Tokyo World Championships. It proved to be the platform from which McPhillips launched himself onto the world stage. In Tokyo he won his 800 heat and semi-final and in the final was a fraction off the podium placing 4th setting an Irish record of 1.42.15 becoming the 1st Irish man to run sub- 1.43.

This is the second successive year that the performance of an Irish athlete at Morton Games has received the inspirational award following on the heels of Cathal Doyle’s 2024 Morton mile victory.

Morton Games congratulates Cian and looks forward to more inspirational performances at Morton Games on July 10, 2026.