20 STRONG IRISH TEAM SET FOR EUROPEAN UNDER 18 CHAMPIONSHIPS
A team of 20 athletes from all 4 provinces are set to represent Ireland at the European U18 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel from July 4th to 7th 2022.
This will be the third edition of these championships, and the first edition since the championships were hosted in Hungary in 2018. The 2022 edition promises to be ultra-competitive with 991 athletes from 48 countries set to battle it out.
This year’s U18 championships will prove hugely beneficial in development of the Irish athletes, coming on the back of two years of restrictions and cancelled competitions for this age group.
This year’s Irish team is representative of all the track & field disciplines; sprints, hurdles, middle distance, walks, jumps and throws.
On the track, Neil Culhane (ACE A.C.) will go into the week boasting a season’s best of 1.52.91 for 800m which would rank him 5th of the 26th entered based on season’s best times.
Fintan Dewhirst of Tir Chonaill A.C. also comes here on the back of a tremendously consistent season. His SB of 52.98 would rank him 5th of the 31 entered in the 400m hurdles.
Elizabeth Ndudi is one to look out for in the long jump from an Irish perspective, with the DSD athlete having already posted a PB of 6.36m this season which would rank 3rd of the 21 athletes entered in the long jump competition.
All four days of the European Athletics U18 Championships will be streamed live on the European Athletics website.
Full Team
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European Under18 championship Team Ireland |
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Name |
Club |
Coach |
Event(s) |
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Aisling Lane |
Mullingar |
Michael Lane |
5,000m Walk |
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Ava Rochford |
Nenagh |
Martin O'Grady |
High Jump |
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Elizabeth Ndudi |
DSD |
Julien Guilard |
Long Jump 100m |
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Kirsti Foster |
Willowfield Harriers |
Davy Foster |
1500m |
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Niamh Murray |
Bray Runners |
Aine Murray |
400m |
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Victoria Amiadamen |
Dooneen |
PJ O'Rourke |
400mh |
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Andrew Glennon |
Mullingar |
Michael Lane |
10,000m Walk |
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Diarmuid Fagan |
Mullingar |
Joe Ryan |
1500m |
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Finn O'Neill |
Lifford Strabane |
Wendy Phillips, Jim Alexander, Phillip Snoddy, Michael Curran & Damian Crawford |
Decathlon |
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Fintan Dewhirst |
Tir Chonaill |
Brian McGonagle |
400mh |
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Harry Colbert |
Waterford |
Des Colbert |
3000m |
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Jack Fenlon |
St.Abban's |
Eamonn Kelly |
3000m |
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Jack Kelly |
Tallagh |
Johnny Fox |
800m |
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Liam Shaw |
Athenry |
Iain Shaw |
Shot |
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Lughaidh Mallon |
Lagan Valley |
Jim McKeown |
1500m |
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Max O'Reilly |
Riverstick Kinsale |
Dave Keating |
100m |
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Neil Culhane |
Ace |
Liam Cooney |
800m |
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Oisín Joyce |
Lake District |
Padraic Joyce |
Javelin |
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Sam O'Sullivan |
Clonmel |
Frank Lynch |
10,000m Walk |
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Sean Carmody |
Leevale |
John Naughton |
400mh |
European Youth (U18) Championships: Past Medal Winners
- 2016 100m Gina Akpe-Moses SILVER 11.80 (-0.3)
- 2016 100m Hurdles Molly Scott BRONZE 13.51(+0.1)
- 2018 200m Rhasidat Adeleke GOLD 23.52 (+0.7)
- 2018 800m Sophie O’Sullivan SILVER 2.06.05
- 2018 1500m Sarah Healy GOLD 4.18.71
- 2018 3000m Sarah Healy GOLD 9.18.05