Adeleke and Lavin Set To Headline National Championships This Weekend

The Irish Athletics Championships, which also celebrates its 150th birthday, will take place this upcoming weekend where numerous Irish stars will compete at Morton Stadium in Santry. In a statement posted by her manager, Ciara Mageean has withdrawn from this weekend’s nationals as a “precautionary measure as she had a niggle” after her Irish mile record in Monaco last week. …

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400m Victory For Rhasidat Adeleke At The Big 12 Championships

Rhasidat Adeleke claimed victory at the Big 12 Championships in Oklahoma over the weekend.  The 20-year-old ran 50.58, beating her University of Texas teammate, Kennedy Simon (51.22) to claim top spot.  This was Adeleke’s second 400M title at the Big 12 Conference, having won the title for Texax in in Lubbock, Texas in February. https://twitter.com/Track_Gazette/status/1657811319846780933?s=20 It continues the astonishing trajectory …

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Irish sprinter Sharlene Mawdsley: “I was running for fun, and then I got a small bit better as I got older and I wouldn’t have known that if I dropped out of the sport”

Sprinter Sharlene Mawdsley was part of the women’s 4x400m relay team that broke a national record at this Summer’s European Championships, crossing the line with a time of 3:26.06. “It was obviously unreal that we broke the national record. I think we all did go in trusting our abilities and we knew we could produce a really good time. I …

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