World Athletics Championships: Irish in action on Day 2
It's the second day of action at the World Championships in Budapest where medal contender Rhasidat Adeleke will be in 400m action.
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It's the second day of action at the World Championships in Budapest where medal contender Rhasidat Adeleke will be in 400m action.
Eamonn Coghlan believes multiple Irish athletes can make finals at the upcoming World Athletics Championships, with Rhasidat Adeleke a medal prospect in the 400m.
This time last week, Rhasidat Adeleke had yet to compete as a professional athlete. In the intervening seven days she's taken in two events in the paid ranks and made it back to Dublin for the National Athletics Championships at Morton Stadium this weekend.
Ciara Mageean obliterated Sonia O'Sullivan's longstanding Irish record over a mile at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco on Friday evening as the Portaferry star filled the runner-up berth behind the remarkable Faith Kipyegon, who set her third world record in the last two months.
Rhasidat Adeleke was second behind the reigning world champion in her professional debut.
Rhasidat Adeleke finished second and just outside her own Irish 200m record on her professional debut at the Gyulai Istvan Continental Tour Gold meeting near Budapest.
Rhasidat Adeleke will make her debut as a professional athlete at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial meeting in Hungary on Tuesday after opting to forgo her senior year in the collegiate ranks as a student at the University of Texas.
Rhasidat Adeleke has smashed her own Irish record over 400m and posted the fourth fastest time in the world this year at the NCAA Championships in Austin.