World Athletics Championships: Ireland's Rhasidat Adeleke wins 400m heat
Rhasidat Adeleke won her 400m heat on day two of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
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Rhasidat Adeleke won her 400m heat on day two of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
Eamonn Coghlan believes multiple Irish athletes can make finals at the upcoming World Athletics Championships, with Rhasidat Adeleke a medal prospect in the 400m.
Athletics Ireland will send a squad of 23 to the upcoming World Championships in Budapest, with Ciara Mageean, Mark English, Thomas Barr, Sarah Lavin and Rhasidat Adeleke spearheading the Irish challenge in the Hungarian capital from 19-27 August.
Rhasidat Adeleke has been forced to withdraw from the 123.ie National Track and Field Championships based on medical advice.
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.
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.