Stars set for National Indoor Championships

The Irish Life Health National Senior Indoor Championships are set to showcase the cream of Irish track and field athletes at the Sport Ireland National Indoor Arena this weekend.

Rhasidat Adeleke (Tallaght AC), Molly Scott (St L O'Toole AC) Phil Healy (Bandon AC) and Sarah Healy (UCD AC) have all set new benchmarks this indoor season and the latter trio will once again go in pursuit of new personal bests across the two-day schedule.

Olympians Phil Healy (Bandon AC) has been edging ever closer to the national 400m record of 51.58 seconds set by Karen Shinkins in 2002.

Healy will be looking to go even closer to the record than her most recent PB of 51.74, but she won’t be on her own as Olympian Sophie Becker (Raheny Shamrock AC) and Sharlene Mawdsley (Newport AC) are set to take their place on the start line.

Sarah Healy (UCD AC) is just milliseconds away from Ciara Mageean's 1500m record of 4:06.42. Healy set the junior record at 4:06.94 last weekend in Birmingham and is also listed for the 3000m.

Georgie Hartigan (DSD AC) joins Healy on the 1500m start line after her own impressive 1000m record-breaking performance last weekend.

The 800m could see a trio of Olympians battle it out for national honours as Nadia Power (Dublin City Harriers AC), Louise Shanahan (Leevale AC) and Siofra Cleirigh Buttner (DSD AC) are all in the mix.

Shanahan recently won the 1500m AAI Games setting a new PB of 4:24.25. Cleirigh Buttner set the current 800m record of 2:00.58 only last year, taking over from Nadia Power.

Molly Scott (St L O’Toole AC) is the favourite in the 60m following her record-breaking start to the 2022 season. She will be in the blocks looking to reinstate herself in top spot of the Irish all-time standings.

Sarah Buggy (St Abbans