Who’s heading to the World Indoor Championships to compete for Ireland?
Athletics Ireland has selected nine athletes to represent Ireland at the World Indoor Championships which take place from March 1st – 3rd in Glasgow, Scotland. Limerick’s Sarah Lavin (Emerald AC) will spearhead the team in the 60m hurdles. Lavin will travel to Glasgow on the back of a string of outstanding performances, most recently clocking an equal PB of 7.91 …
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National Senior Indoor Athletics Championships Preview
This preview originally appeared on www.athleticsireland.ie, see here. The stars of Irish athletics will take to national competition at the 123.ie National Senior Indoor Championships which take place in the Sport Ireland National Indoor Arena this weekend (February 17th & 18th). The action gets underway from 12pm on Saturday, with a second helping also taking place on Sunday from 12pm. Both …
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Adeleke and Flanagan set new Irish records in New York
Rhasidat Adeleke (300m) and Roisin Flanagan (2 Mile) were in record breaking form Sunday evening at the prestigious Millrose Games in New York. Adeleke (Tallaght AC) set a new Irish 300m record with a second placed 36.42 to better her own Irish 300m record of 36.87 which she had set in January 2022. The performance continues a remarkable start to …
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Sarah Healy smashes Irish indoor 1500m record in France
Sarah Healy (U.C.D. A.C.) broke the Irish senior indoor 1500m record Saturday night. Competing at the World Indoor Tour Gold meet in Lievin, France, Healy clocked an impressive time of 4.03.83 to finish fifth. That time takes over two seconds off the previous record held by Ciara Mageean (City of Lisburn A.C.) since January 2020. The race was won by …
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Tracking Sarah Lavin’s record breaking form so far this year
Having eclipsed Derval O’Rourke’s long standing 100m hurdle record last year, Sarah Lavin’s record breaking form has clearly continued into 2024. There was a time where going sub eight seconds in the 60m hurdles would have been the goal, but having hit that in all six of her World Indoor Tour races so far this year, the Limerick woman is …
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ALL The Snaps From The Her Sport Awards
Lights, camera, action! The Her Sport Awards returned to UCD Astra Hall to a SOLD OUT crowd, presented by Her Sport founder Niamh Tallon with broadcaster Máire Treasa Ní Dhubhghail as the amazing MC for the night. Special Guests, Paul Galvin and Shebahn Aherne.
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Lara O’Byrne crowned National Senior Indoor Combined Event Champion
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Grace Fisher
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January 28, 2024
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123.ie National Indoor Combined Events, Alison Dempsey, Ashleigh McArdle, Brynja Brynjarsdottir, City of Lisburn AC, Donore Harriers AC, Dundalk St Gerald's AC, Lagan Valley AC, Lara O'Byrne, Laura Frawley, Laura Frey, Lifford Strabane AC, Naas AC, Nenagh Olympic AC, Tara O'Connor
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Lara O’Byrne (Donore Harriers A.C.) was crowned national senior indoor combined event champion for 2024 on Sunday at the Sport Ireland National Indoor Arena (NIA) in Abbotstown, Dublin. O’Byrne took gold in what was an exciting Pentathlon competition. The 23-year-old from Dublin was trailing Laura Frawley (Nenagh Olympic A.C.) going into the final event, the 800m, but her 2.31.24 finishing …
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Rhasidat Adeleke starts off 2024 with two new Irish records
The records keep falling for Rhasidat Adeleke, and her performance at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational in New Mexico was more of the same. She broke her own Irish indoor 60m and 200m records, running 7.15 and 22.49. The first of these was enough to win comfortably as well as shave .02 seconds off the 7.17 Adeleke ran …
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Agnes Ngetich runs 10km in under 29 minutes, shattering world record
Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich became the first woman to run 10km in under 29 minutes when she crossed the finish line of the Valencia Ibercaja road race in Spain in 28:46, shattering the world record by 28 seconds. 22-year-old Ngetich’s compatriot Emmaculate Anyango, who she’s been racing since primary school, also broke the 29-minute barrier in Valencia, finishing in 28:57 to …
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Dubai marathon: Tigist Ketema runs fastest marathon debut in history
25-year-old Ethiopian Tigist Ketema won the Dubai marathon in 2:16.07 this morning (Jan. 7), setting a new world record for fastest marathon debut. Ketema’s time, which shaved over a minute off the course record, surpasses Letesenbet Gidey’s debut time of 2:16.49, set in Valencia in 2022. It also makes her the eighth-fastest woman in history. Formerly a middle-distance runner, Ketema …
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