Ciara Mageean's Race Beyond Medals and Setbacks
Ciara Mageean's memoir is a sports story with raw emotional stakes, moving from elite racing highs to Olympic heartbreak, injury and cancer. Fans of athlete memoirs will find resilience, honesty and a powerful account of purpose beyond medals.
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Ciara Mageean's Race Beyond Medals and Setbacks
Ciara Mageean's memoir is a sports story with raw emotional stakes, moving from elite racing highs to Olympic heartbreak, injury and cancer. Fans of athlete memoirs will find resilience, honesty and a powerful account of purpose beyond medals.
- Book Synopsis
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Few Irish track athletes are as universally loved as Ciara Mageean, who has remained endearingly down-to-earth, candid and optimistic despite the dramatic twists and turns of her world-class career.
In 2024 she finally won a European title, crossing the line to secure that gold medal in a moment of pure euphoria. Two months later, at the peak of her power, an excruciating injury derailed her once again, forcing an eleventh-hour withdrawal from the Paris Olympics. In the City of Love she went, overnight, from competitor to heartbroken tourist. Nothing, she thought, will ever be as bad as this … and then she got the worst news of her life.
My Greatest Race is a sports memoir like no other, a devastating contrast between the elite athlete road that so few get to travel and the all-too-familiar cancer journey that so many do.
Ideal for readers who:
- Look to sports memoirs for identity, resilience and purpose beyond medals.
- Follow Ciara Mageean’s triumphs, injuries and emotional honesty.
- Come for the Olympic heartbreak to deepen the story rather than define it completely.
- Care about athletes as whole people, not just performances on the track.
- About The Author
- Ciara Mageean has carved out a unique place in Irish sport as one of the country's most decorated and relatable middle-distance runners. A European 1500m champion, two-time Olympian and multiple Irish record holder across the 800m, 1000m, 1500m and mile, Ciara has consistently raised the bar for Irish athletics on the world stage.
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- ISBN
- 9781804585474
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Gill Books, (18 June 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 500 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 mm
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