Rhasidat Adeleke runs fastest ever 100m by an Irish female athlete

Rhasidat Adeleke clocked 10.84 to win the 100m at the Texas Invitational in Austin Saturday — the fastest time ever for an Irish female athlete, though it won’t be an official record with 3.5 metres/second wind assistance (the limit is 2.0). 21-year-old Adeleke was significantly ahead of the talented field: American Celera Barnes ran 10.94, 2019 200m world champion Dina …

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Rhasidat Adeleke Smashed A 4x200M World Record But Here’s Why It Didn’t Officially Count

Irish track sensation Rhasidat Adeleke and her three teammates, Julien Alfred, Lanae-Tava Thomas and Dina Asher-Smith set a new 4x200m world relay time at the 96th edition of the Texas Relays on Saturday, 30 March 2024 – smashing a long-standing world record time. Setting A New World Record Having been on a scholarship at the University of Texas since 2021, …

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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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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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Rhasidat Adeleke Breaks own Irish 200M Record

Rhasidat Adeleke (Tallaght AC) broke her own Irish 200m indoor record with a world leading time of 22.52 at the Dr. Martin Luther King Collegiate Invitational in Albuquerque in the early hours of Sunday morning. Adeleke’s winning time was more than three-tenths of a second faster than her previous record of 22.85, set in Albuquerque last February.  It moved the …

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