Record 400m run wins Adeleke gold at NCAA Championships
It was yet another Irish record for Rhasidat Adeleke as she stormed to 400m gold at the NCAA championships. Her time of 49.20, a meet and facility record on her home track in Texas, made her the first Irish sprinter to win NCAA gold, and the first Irish athlete to win a title in any NCAA event since 2006, when …
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Rhasidat Adeleke smashes own 400m national record
Rhasidat Adeleke (Tallaght A.C.) has obliterated her own Irish 400m record at the NCAA Division 1 Prelims West in Sacramento, California in the early hours of yesterday morning (May 28th). Competing for a place in next month’s NCAA Finals in Austin, Adeleke produced a scintillating quarter-final performance to advance with ease, winning her race in an extraordinary time of 49.54. …
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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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Rugby Sevens Qualify for Olympics- Weekend Roundup
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Grace Fisher
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May 15, 2023
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Week In Review
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Ciara Mageean, Down Camogie, Ireland Rugby 7s, Kate Mooney, Louise Shanahan, Mona McSharry, Paris 2024 Olympics, Peamount United, Rhasidat Adeleke, Sharlene Mawdsley, Tipperary Camogie, Women's Premier Division
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Ireland Sevens Qualify for Olympics Ireland Women’s 7s have made history by booking automatic qualification for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The crucial game was against Fiji in the fifth-place semi-final on the last day of the HSBC France Sevens in Toulouse this morning (May 14). Thanks to a brace of tries from Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe, Ireland defeated Fiji 10-5, ensuring …
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Rhasidat Adeleke: “Maybe that comes down to me not knowing my limits yet.”
Rhasidat Adeleke is nowhere near her peak in her athletics career. In 2022, the 20-year-old athlete broke 5 Irish records; The indoor 60m, 200m and 300m and the outdoor 200m and 400m. In only her 6th race over 400m not only did she break a national record, she only narrowly missed out on a medal coming 5th in her debut …
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Watch: Rhasidat Adeleke Breaks Irish National Record With 13th Fastest Time In The World Ever
Rhasidat Adeleke broke her own Irish national record in the women’s indoor 400 metres, this time winning the Big 12 Conference final in Lubbock, Texas with a time of 50.33 seconds
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Revealed: Winners of the Her Sport Awards
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Neasa Kennedy
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January 28, 2023
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Her Sport Awards
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Aine O Gorman, Amy Broadhurst, Athlete of the Year, Catherina McKiernan, Deirdre McElearney, Energia Community Award, Hall of Fame, Her Sport Awards, Irish Hockey, Irish Soccer Team, Katie O Brien, Lisa Fallon, Rhasidat Adeleke, Roisin Upton, Rowing Ireland, Three Team of the Year, WHOOP Young Athlete of the Year
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Lights, camera, action! Tonight the Her Sport Awards returned to UCD Astra Hall presented by Her Sport founder Niamh Tallon with broadcaster Gráinne McElwain as our amazing MC for the night. We were joined by some of our outstanding nominees and sports people and people from our Her Sport community, young and old, on an inspiring night full of like-minded …
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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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Women’s Sport Dominates RTÉ Sport Awards
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Grace Fisher
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December 20, 2022
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Athletics, Boxing, Rowing, Soccer
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Fintan McCarthy, Katie Taylor, Paul O'Donovan, Rhasidat Adeleke, RTE Sport Team of the Year, RTE Sports Awards, RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year, RTE Young Sportsperson of the Year, Vera Pauw
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It’s been a magnificent year for women’s sport in Ireland, and that was reflected in the 2022 RTÉ Sports Awards, with three of the four major awards going to women. Katie Taylor collected the main prize, winning Sportsperson of the Year for a third time after a stellar year in which defended her title as undisputed lightweight world champion. She …
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Catherina McKiernan Set to Enter Hall of Fame at National Athletics Awards
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HerSport Editor
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October 19, 2022
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Athletics
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Catherina McKiernan, Ciara Mageean, Dean Casey, European Athletics Championships, Israel Olatunde, Kate O'Connor, Louise Shanahan, Mark English, Nicola Tuthill, Nicolas Griggs, Reece Ademola, Rhasidat Adeleke, Sarah Healy, Sarah Lavin, World Cross Country Championships
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Athletics Ireland are delighted to announce that Catherina McKiernan, regarded as one of the world’s best ever cross country athletes, will be honoured with the Hall of Fame Award at this year’s National Athletics Awards on Wednesday November 23rd at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Santry. The county Cavan native enjoyed her first major cross country success in 1988 when she …
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