Rhasidat Adeleke breaks National 100m record to win gold
Rhasidat Adeleke on her way to a national 100m record.
RHASIDAT ADELEKE WON gold and broke the Irish National 100m record with a time of 11.33 at the 123.ie National Senior Track and Field Championships at Morton Stadium today.
The Tallaght athlete now holds all national sprint records over 100m, 200m and 400m.
Adeleke finished ahead of Sarah Lavin (Emerald AC) in second with 11.37 and third placed Mollie O’Reilly (Dundrum South Dublin AC), 11.61.
Israel Olatunde (Tallaght AC) took the men’s 100m title with a dip on the line to finish in 10.27, just ahead of Bori Akinola (UCD AC), 10.29, and Sean Aigboboh (Tallaght AC) in third, 10.39.
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Sarah Healy won the Women’s 800m with a time of 2:03.64. Louise Shanahan (Leevale AC) finished second in 2:04.17 while Jenna Bromell (Emerald AC) was third in 2:04.41.
Thomas Barr (Ferrybank AC) picked up his 12th 400mH National Senior Title. The Waterford athlete ran 50.61 to finish ahead of Fintan Dewhirst (Tír Chonaill AC) in second, 51.65, and David Davitt (Clonliffe Harriers AC), 51.90.
Mark English controlled the Men’s 800m race from the start and added another 800m National Senior Title to his collection. The Finn Valley athlete clocked 1:49.18, ahead of Cillian Kirwan (Raheny Shamrock AC) 1:51.08 and Robert Hewison (Kildare AC) 1:51.43.
Jennifer Sawyer (St L O’Toole AC) won the Women’s 400mH National Senior Title in 1:01.87, ahead of Cara Murphy (Dundrum South Dublin AC), 1:02.93, and Rachel Lynch (Dundrum South Dublin AC), 1:03.05.
Sophie Becker (Raheny Shamrock AC) won her third 400m National Senior title with a time of 52.68 ahead of North Down’s Rachel McCann, 53.60, and Lauren Cadden (Sligo AC), 53.66.
Jack Raftery (Donore Harriers) won his first outdoor National Senior Title in the men’s 400m in a time of 45.95, with North Sligo AC’s Christopher O’Donnell, 46.07, in second place and Callum Baird in third, 46.20.
Sophie O’Sullivan, from Ballymore Cobh AC, won the 1500m ahead of Carla Sweeney and Madison Mooney, with a winning time of 4:20.45.
For the third time in a row, Cathal Doyle of Clonliffe Harriers won the men’s 1500m in 3:44.15 ahead of Luke McCann (UCD), 3:44.54, and Darragh McElhinney (Bantry AC), 3:44.67.