Israel Olatunde (Tallaght AC) stormed to a new Irish national 100m record this afternoon at the Be Fast Today Track Academy meeting in Lee Valley, London.
The 23-year-old from Dundalk clocked a time of 10.08 (+2.0m/s) to finish second in a race won by Eugene Amo-Dadzie (Great Britain) in 9.87. This betters his previous record of 10.12, which he also set in London twelve months ago.
Since then, Olatunde has moved to Clermont, Florida where he is coached by Lance Brauman. He now becomes the first Irishman to break the 10.1 barrier for the event.
Olatunde also played his part in breaking a 25-year-old national record earlier this summer as part of the Men’s 4x100m relay team, who clocked 38.92 seconds in Geneva in June, before lowering that mark again to 38.88 at the European Athletics Team Championships in Maribor, Slovenia at the end of that month.
