Rose-Anne Galligan
{{short description|Irish athletics competitor}}
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Rose-Anne Galligan (born 9 December 1987) is an Irish athlete. She competes in the 1500 metres and the 800 metres, where she is the Irish national record holder with a time of 2:00.58.
Career
Galligan is a former Irish schools champion. Galligan attended university at the University of Tennessee, where she competed on the athletics team. In the distance medley relay at the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championships Athletics finals, she was the opening runner on the silver medal winning team.{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/emperor-retired-after-wash-shock-26285789.html|title=Emperor retired after Wash' shock|date=11 March 2007|accessdate=16 August 2013|work=Irish Independent}} In January the following year, Galligan finished second in the final of the 1500 metres at the Irish Indoor Athletics Championships, behind Ciara Mageean .{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/athletics-young-mcgeean-lights-up-odyssey-with-1500-triumph-26347937.html|title=Athletics: Young McGeean lights up Odyssey with 1500 triumph|date=28 January 2008|last=Foley|first=Cliona|accessdate=16 August 2013|work=Irish Independent}}
At the 2009 European Athletics Under-23 Championships, Galligan ran a personal best time of 4:14.84 to qualify for the 1500 metres final, where she finished sixth.{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/athletics-usain-bolts-back-to-his-best-in-france-26551879.html|title=Athletics: Usain Bolts back to his best in France|date=18 July 2009|last=Foley|first=Cliona|accessdate=16 August 2013|work=Irish Independent}}{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/athletics-euro-finals-agony-for-proper-and-galligan-26553024.html|title=Athletics: Euro finals agony for Proper and Galligan|date=20 July 2009|last=Foley|first=Cliona|accessdate=16 August 2013|work=Irish Independent}} Just over a week later, she ran a personal best time to win the 800 metres at the BMC Gold Standard Races in Watford. Her time of 2:05.14 was an improvement of more than a second on her previous best.{{cite web|url=http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=8907 |title=Roseanne Galligan and Derval O’Rourke in Winning Form in UK |date=30 July 2009 |accessdate=16 August 2013 |publisher=Athletics Association of Ireland |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113191928/http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=8907 |archivedate=13 January 2011 }} She won the 800 metres at the Irish national championships in early August, and on 29 August, won the 2009 Antwerp Athletics Gala 800 metres ahead of Camilla De Bleecker.{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ie/sport/other-sports/illness-scare-for-track-duo-27920179.html|title=Illness scare for track duo|date=3 August 2009|accessdate=16 August 2013|work=Evening Herald}}{{cite web|url=http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=9424 |title=Roseanne Galligan Wins in Antwerp |date=31 August 2009 |accessdate=16 August 2013 |publisher=Athletics Association of Ireland |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113201031/http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=9424 |archivedate=13 January 2011 }}
Galligan qualified for the 1500 metres 2010 World Indoor Championships in Athletics held in Doha. She failed to progress further than the heats after finishing eighth.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/8564565.stm|title=David Gillick progresses to the World Indoor 400m final|date=12 March 2010|accessdate=16 August 2013|publisher=BBC}} In July 2010, she won the 800 metres at the AAI Senior Track and Field Championships.{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2010/0711/267949-athletics/|title=Kennedy books European Championships spot|date=12 July 2010|accessdate=16 August 2013|publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann}}
She missed most of 2012 due to illness, later revealed to have been low-level blood poisoning caused by her wisdom teeth.{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/athletics-galligan-slams-aai-on-return-from-illness-layoff-26857210.html|title=Athletics: Galligan slams AAI on return from illness lay-off|date=2 December 2012|last=Foley|first=Cliona|accessdate=27 March 2014|work=Irish Independent}}
At the London Diamond League Anniversary Games on 27 July 2013, Galligan broke Sonia O'Sullivan's 19-year-old Irish national record in the 800 metres; running a time of 2:00.58, she finished sixth in the race.{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/in-brief-galligan-breaks-sonias-national-record-29452879.html|title=In Brief: Galligan breaks Sonia's national record|date=27 July 2013|last=Foley|first=Cliona|accessdate=16 August 2013|work=Irish Independent}} At the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, Galligan failed to reach the semifinals of the 800 metres, after finishing seventh in her heat.{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2013/0815/468321-galligan-fails-to-reach-800m-semis-in-moscow/|title=Rose-Anne Galligan fails to reach 800m semis at World Athletics Championships|date=15 August 2013|accessdate=15 August 2013|publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann}}
Galligan competed at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland. Despite running a season's best, she failed to progress past the first round of the 800 metres after finishing last in her heat.{{cite web|url=http://www.herald.ie/sport/other-sports/irish-suffer-whitewash-on-opening-day-in-sopot-30074716.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140327020843/http://www.herald.ie/sport/other-sports/irish-suffer-whitewash-on-opening-day-in-sopot-30074716.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 March 2014 |title=Irish suffer whitewash on opening day in Sopot |date=8 March 2014 |accessdate=26 March 2014 |work=Evening Herald }}
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References
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External links
- [http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/ireland/roseanne-galligan-205653 IAAF profile]
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Category:Irish female middle-distance runners
Category:People from Newbridge, County Kildare