Sarah Lavin spearheads Ireland team at upcoming World Indoor Championships in Glasgow

Limerick's Sarah Lavin will spearhead the Ireland team at next month's World Indoor Championships in Scotland.

The Emerald AC athlete will compete in the 60m hurdles at the prestigious event, which take place from 1-3 March in Glasgow.

Lavin will travel to Glasgow on the back of a string of outstanding performances, most recently clocking an equal personal best of 7.91secs on her way to claiming her sixth national indoor 60m hurdles title at last weekend’s 123.ie National Indoor Championships.

Another athlete heading to Glasgow full of confidence is Sarah Healy who will focus on the 1500m at these championships having broken the Irish senior indoor record with a stunning 4min 3.83secs earlier this month.

The UCD athlete's time took over two seconds off the previous record held by Ciara Mageean and came just one week after Healy broke Mary Cullen’s national senior indoor record over 3000m with 8:36.06.

Israel Olatunde made it three senior 60m indoor titles in a row on Sunday, and the 2022 European 100m finalist will be looking to make his presence felt as he takes to another major international championships.

Newport’s Sharlene Mawdsley picked up her first 400m indoor title on Sunday, clocking 52.04secs, and the newly crowned national champion will hope to take to the individual 400m in Glasgow pending confirmation of qualification status by World Athletics.

Mawdsley was one of the stars of last year’s World Championships in Budapest, leading the women’s relay team to an eighth-placed-finish in the final, which marked her sixth 400m of the week.

And she will, once again, head a strong women’s 4x400m team, which also includes Sophie Becker (Raheny Shamrock AC), Phil Healy (Bandon AC), Roisin Harrison (Emerald AC), Rachel McCann