Fiona Everard

Fiona Everard (born 30 September 1998) is an Irish cross country runner. In November 2023, she became the Irish female national cross-country champion.

Career
From Enniskeane in County Cork, Everard is a member of Cork-based running club Bandon AC.

In December 2022, she won the National Novice Cross-Country Championship, held in Conna. Everard had not long started to receive the input of her coach Matt Lockett, with whom she began working in October 2022, and who she has since said helped her overcome a succession of bone injuries and stress fractures. In late 2022, she also finished in the top 10 at the 2022 National Senior Cross Country Championships held in Donegal.

In February 2023, she made her debut competing internationally for Ireland. She finished 14th at the Cross Cup de Hannut in Belgium, finishing one place and one second behind leading Irish woman on the day Fionnuala Ross. Representing the University of Galway, she won the IUAA cross-country event in Limerick in March 2023. The following month she won the Irish Universities Championship over 5000m in Dublin, in what was in only her second-ever 5000m on the track. She was subsequently named Cork City Sports Athlete of the month for April.

In October 2023, she finished runner-up to Lizzie Lee at the Cork County cross-country championships in Macroom.

Everard won the 2023 Irish National Cross Country Championships in Gowran, Kilkenny in November 2023. She finished 37 seconds clear of the field, in a race competed in extreme muddy conditions. Everard credited her experience of conditions training in Bandon which have helped her to favour muddy and hilly courses. The win secured her a place on the Irish team for the 2023 European Cross Country Championships scheduled for December 10, 2023 in Brussels, in which she finished 34th overall.

In March 2024, she was selected for the 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Serbia.

Personal life
In 2022, Everard began studying for a Masters in Biomedical Science at the University of Galway.