The Irish Women’s 4x100m relay team stormed to an impressive new national record at this afternoon’s Diamond League meeting in London.
Sarah Leahy (Killarney Valley AC), Ciara Neville (Emerald AC), Lauren Roy (City of Lisburn AC) and Sarah Lavin (Emerald AC) combined to clock a time of 43.73 seconds, bettering the previous record of 43.80 that had stood since 2018.
The quartet, racing together for just the second time, finished fourth in a thrilling race which was won by Great Britain. They will continue to set their eyes on next August’s European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.
Three other Irish athletes were also in action in London. Sarah Healy (UCD AC) continued her excellent recent form to finish third in the Women’s Mile. The Dubliner crossed the line in a time of 4:16.26, which moves her to second on the Irish all-time list for the event behind Ciara Mageean.
Rhasidat Adeleke (Tallaght AC) also impressed, clocking a season’s best of 22.52 into a slight headwind (-0.6m/s), to place fourth in the Women’s 200m, behind training partners Julien Alfred and Dina Asher-Smith.
In the Men’s 800m Mark English (Finn Valley AC) clocked 1:44.07, the third fastest time of his career, to finish seventh.
Photo: Eric Bellamy
