Healy And O’Connor Lead Irish At World Indoor Championships
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HerSport Editor
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March 20, 2025
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Athletics
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1500m heats, 3000m final, 60m Hurdles, Athletics Ireland updates, BBC live athletics, European indoor championships, global athletics competition, Indoor Athletics, Ireland track and field, Irish Athletics, Irish sports news, Kate O'Connor, Nanjing athletics event, Paris 2024 Olympians, Pentathlon, Sarah Healy, Sarah Lavin, Sophie O'Sullivan, Team Ireland, World Athletics Indoor Championships 2025
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European indoor medallists Sarah Healy (3000m) and Kate O’Connor (Pentathlon) headline a six-strong Irish team which competes at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China this weekend (Friday March 21st – Sunday March 23rd). Over 550 athletes from 127 countries are entered in the global event, with eleven defending champions and 20 medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games set …
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Sarah Healy takes second in famous Fifth Avenue Mile
Sarah Healy added another magnificent run to a breakthrough season this Sunday (Sept. 10) as she took second place in New York’s famous Fifth Avenue Mile. Healy ran 4:20.0 on a slippery course, second only to Britain’s Jemma Reekie, who ran 4:19.4. Had Healy won she would’ve been only the second Irish woman and third Irish athlete to win the …
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Ciara Mageean breaks own national 1500m record in Brussels
It was another brilliant performance for Ciara Mageean as she broke her own national 1500m record yet again at the Diamond League meeting in Brussels Friday night. Mageean ran 3:55.87 — the 24th fastest 1500m ever — to finish in second behind Scotland’s Laura Muir (3:55.34), knocking nearly a second off her previous national record set at the Word Championships …
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Sophie O’Sullivan Shatters Irish National U23 3000m Record
Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Sophie O’Sullivan broke the Irish National U23 3000m last night at the World Athletics Continental Tour meet in Rovereto, Italy. O’Sullivan’s second-place finish in an impressive time of 8.44.72 (behind Ethiopia’s Wubrist Aschal) knocks nearly two seconds off the previous record held by Sarah Healy since July of last year. Washington's Sophie O'Sullivan Sets Irish Under-23 …
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Irish 4×400 relay team finishes 8th in World Final
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Grace Fisher
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August 27, 2023
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Athletics
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Ciara Mageean, Kate O'Connor, Kelly McGrory, Louise Shanahan, Rhasidat Adeleke, Roisin Harrison, Sarah Healy, Sarah Lavin, Sharlene Mawdsley, Sophie Becker, Sophie O'Sullivan, World Athletics Championships 2023
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Ireland’s 4x400m team has finished eighth in this evening’s relay final which rounds out a hugely successful nine days for Team Ireland at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest (Aug 27th). The team of Sophie Becker (Raheny Shamrock A.C.), Roisin Harrison (Emerald A.C.), Kelly McGrory (Tir Chonaill A.C.) and Sharlene Mawdsley (Newport A.C.) crossed in a time of 3:27.08, having …
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Spectacular start for Team Ireland as 4×400 team make World Finals, Mageean and Healy through to Semi-Final
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Grace Fisher
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August 19, 2023
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Athletics
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Ballymore Cobh, Christopher O'Donnell, Ciara Mageean, City of Lisburn AC, Dundalk St Gerards AC, Faith Kipyegon, Jack Raftery, Kate O'Connor, Sarah Healy, Sharlene Mawdsley, Sifan Hassan, Sophie Becker, Sophie O'Sullivan, UCD AC, World Athletics Championships 2023
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Team Ireland have had a spectacular start on the first day of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest as the mixed 4x400m team of Jack Raftery, Sophie Becker, Christopher O’Donnell, and Sharlene Mawdsley secured their place in this evening’s final with a brilliant 3:13.90 season’s best. Raftery lead the team out on the opening leg before smooth handovers to Becker …
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2023 World Athletics Championships: A Preview
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Shannon O'Connor
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August 15, 2023
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Athletics
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Ciara Mageean, Ciara Mageean 1500m, Cliodhna Manning, Kelly McGrory, Louise Shanahan, Rhasidat Adeleke, Roisin Harrison, Sarah Healy, Sarah Lavin, Sharlene Mawdsley, Sophie Becker, Sophie O'Sullivan, World Athletics Championships 2023
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Photo by Giancarlo Colombo/Sportsfile With the 2023 World Athletics Championships kicking off this Saturday, August 19, here is a preview of Team Ireland: The nine-day event, which will end on August 27, will see 23 Irish athletes compete. There are 16 individual entries and two relays: the Women’s 4x400m and the mixed 4x400m, which is relay with both men and …
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Sophie O’Sullivan goes third on the Irish 1000m all-time list
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Grace Fisher
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August 4, 2023
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Athletics
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Abby Caldwell, Ciara Mageean, Citius Meet Bern, Derval O'Rourke, Ditaji Kambundji, Jessie Knight, Laviai Nielsen, Linden Hall, Phil Healy, Revee Walcott-Nolan, Rhasidat Adeleke, Sarah Healy, Sarah Lavin, Sharlene Mawdsley, Sonia O'Sullivan, Sophie O'Sullivan, World Athletics Championships 2023
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Sophie O’Sullivan ran the 1000m in 2:37.08 at the Citius meeting in Bern tonight (August 4), setting a new personal best for herself and going third on the Irish all-time list — behind only her legendary mother Sonia O’Sullivan (2:34.66) and Ciara Mageean (2:31.06), who broke Sonia’s then-27-year-old record in 2020. Sophie’s push in the last 100m won her fourth …
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Double gold for Sarah Lavin at National Track and Field Championships
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Grace Fisher
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July 30, 2023
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Athletics
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123.ie National Track and Field Championships, Emerald AC, Georgie Hartigan, Ide Ni Dhomhnaill, Jenna Bromell, Jessica Tappin, Kelly McGrory, Louise Shanahan, Lucy May Sleeman, Mollie O'Reilly, Phil Healy, Roisin Flanagan, Roisin Harrison, Sarah Healy, Sarah Lavin, Sharlene Mawdsley, Shona Heaslip, Sophie Becker, Sophie O'Sullivan
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Sarah Lavin brought the curtain down on a thrilling final day of the 151st edition of the 123.ie National Track and Field Championships (July 30th). Lavin remarkably set three personal best performances on her way to Sunday’s 100m gold, made all the more remarkable having claimed the 100m hurdles title only 24 hours previous. The Emerald AC star saved her best performance of …
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Rhasidat Adeleke withdraws from National Championships “based on medical advice”
Rhasidat Adeleke has joined Ciara Mageean in withdrawing from this weekend’s 123.ie National Track and Field Championships due to medical concerns. Mageean’s manager said in a statement that the decision was “a precautionary measure as she had a niggle” after her national record-breaking mile run in Monaco last week. She came in second in that race, behind only Faith Kipyegon’s …
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