Given the question: Tom Cunningham (hurler) - Tom Cunningham (born 1931 in Dungarvan County Waterford) is an Irish retired sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Dungarvan and was a member of the Waterford senior inter-county team in the 1950s and 1960s. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
The answer is:
Athlete