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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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Irish 4×400 relay team finishes 8th in World Final

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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Shanahan Bows Out As Attention Turns To Evening Session For Team Ireland

Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Louise Shanahan (Leevale AC) bowed out of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest this morning, with her 2:00:66 fifth place finish in the heats of the 800m not enough to progress to the next round of competition. The 26-year-old, who overcame early season injuries to win the national title last month with the second fastest time …

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Ciara Mageean 1500M Final: What You Need To Know

Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Irish record setter Ciara Mageean is through to the 1500 World Championship final, tonight, August 22, at 20:30 Irish Standard Time (IST). Mageean is the only Irish competitor that made it through to the 1500m final. The 31-year old is currently ranked third in the world, according to World Athletics. Her personal best is 3:56.63, but …

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Ciara Mageean through to 1500m World Final as Sarah Healy breaks u23 national record

Ciara Mageean (City of Lisburn AC) lit up Sunday evening’s session of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest with a textbook semi-final display to book her place in Tuesday’s 1500m final. Racing in the first of the two semi-finals, the Portaferry athlete never looked like being run out of the top six automatic qualifying places, ultimately crossing the finish in …

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Spectacular start for Team Ireland as 4×400 team make World Finals, Mageean and Healy through to Semi-Final

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

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

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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