Nicola Tuthill (UCD AC) has extended her own Irish U23 record today (April 6th).
Competing at the Irish Universities Track and Field Championships, Tuthill took victory with a new personal best throw of 68.65m.
The throw adds eighty centimetres to her previous Irish U23 record, which she set at the European Team Championships in Chorzow, Poland in June of last year.
Her latest feat comes just two weeks after winning a silver medal in the event at the European Throwing Cup in Portugal.
Tuthill was pleased with her performance when speaking to Athletics Ireland afterwards:
“I’m delighted with that. I’m so happy to get it [the record],” she said.
“I was hoping I’d be able to push it out because I knew that it was this competition last year that I broke the U23 record for the first time. To be able come out again this year and get it is really special.”
Tuthill will now have a few weeks' rest before her next competition but is already looking forward to a busy summer ahead. The European Championships in Rome in early June is an event she is targeting.
“I’d definitely be looking towards it but it’s all down to ranking points,” she explained.
“I’m only 20 so we’ll wait and see. It would be great to get out there for experience, I’ll see how the season progresses.”
Elsewhere, Lauren Cadden took victory in the Women’s 400m in a massive personal best time of 53.38 seconds, a new Irish Universities record.
Competing for Atlantic Technological University the Sligo AC athlete knocked over eight tenths of a second off the previous best she had set less than twenty-four hours earlier.
Cadden was part of the Irish 4x400m Relay squad that made the final at the recent World Indoor Championships and is hoping to secure selection for the World Relay Championships which take place in Nassau, The Bahamas in one month’s time.
