Jodie McCann

Jodie McCann (born 3 February 2000) is an Irish long distance runner. In 2024, she became national champion over 5000 metres.

Early life
From Dublin, she took up athletics at the age of nine years-old. She mostly competed in cross country running until she was 17 years-old. She attended Rathdown School and won national age group titles and received scholarship offers to study in the United States, but opted to study primary school teaching at the DCU Institute of Education, graduating in 2022.

Career
In December 2018, she competed in the U20 competition at the 2018 European Cross Country Championships in Tilburg. In November 2019, she won the Irish U20 cross country title. She was subsequently the first placed Irish U20 runner at the 2019 European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon, Portugal.

Running for Dublin City Harriers, she was the leading Irish woman finishing fourth at the Northern Ireland International Cross-Country and Bobby Rea Cross-Country, held in Dundonald in October 2022.

In August 2023, she trained for a few months with the On Athletics Club Oceania in Melbourne, coached by former world 5,000m medallist Craig Mottram. In February 2024, she set new 1,500m and 5,000m personal bests, running 4:08.34 for the 1500 metres in Adelaide, and 15:35.04 for the 5000 metres in Melbourne. In April 2024, she lowered her 5,000m personal best to 15:30.20 in Hiroshima, Japan.

She was selected to represent Ireland in the 5000 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, placing seventeenth overall. That month, she lowered her personal best over 5000 metres again, to 15:20.93 in Oslo.

She won the 5000 metres title at the Irish Championships in Dublin in June 2024, running a time of 15:44.80. In July 2024, she qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Personal life
Her mother was born in Australia and she has dual nationality. Her mother was a fitness instructor and her father a competetive swimmer. Her brother Luke McCann is also an international runner.