Athletics Eire has chosen 19 athletes to journey to characterize Eire on the World Indoor Championships happening on March 18th to twentieth in Belgrade, Serbia.
Molly Scott (St. Laurence O’Toole’s AC) is about take the World Indoor Championships by storm after her unbelievable document breaking 60m efficiency on the Irish Life Well being Nationwide Senior Indoor Championships in February, retaking the Irish Document with a time of seven.19.
Phil Healy (Bandon AC) has been a robust characteristic of the Irish indoor season, after successful the Irish life Well being Nationwide Senior Indoor Championships Healy went on to set a brand new 400m PB, 51.66, on the World Indoor Tour in Madrid final week (2nd March).
Mark English (Finn Valley AC) takes to the 800m and the Males’s 4x400m. The 2022 season has seen a collection of constant and powerful performances from the Finn Valley Star with a sixth-place end on the World Athletics Indoor Tour in Poland earlier than coming to the Irish Life Well being Nationwide Senior Indoor Championships to take high spot.
15 July 2021; Israel Olatunde of Eire competes within the semi remaining of the lads’s 100 metres throughout day one of many European Athletics U20 Championships on the Kadriorg Stadium in Tallinn, Estonia. Photograph by Marko Mumm/Sportsfile
Younger athletes pushing Irish information
Israel Olatunde (UCD AC) options within the 60m after his unbelievable efficiency on the Irish Life Well being Nationwide Senior Indoor Championships, securing each his customary to qualify for these championships, the 19-year-old additionally secured a brand new PB of 6.62 simply 0.01 away from the Nationwide Senior document.
Sarah Healy (UCD AC) is about for the 1500m and will probably be pushing for the ultimate or higher on the World Indoor Championships. The 21-year-old has had an excellent indoor season breaking her personal U23 Document Quantity in February setting the time at 4:06.95, the second quickest ever by an Irish lady, after Ciara Mageean.
12 December 2021; Siofra Cleirigh Buttner of Eire competing within the Blended 4x1500m Relay in the course of the SPAR European Cross Nation Championships Fingal-Dublin 2021 on the Sport Eire Campus in Dublin. Photograph by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile
Excessive Efficiency Director Paul McNamara commented on the choice
“Eire had one athlete compete on the 2016 World Indoor Championships and 5 athletes compete on the 2018 version, now we have now chosen a staff of 11 particular person athletes, plus the number of two relay groups each of which will probably be pushing in the direction of a remaining and new nationwide document.
These figures underpin a major enhance within the power and depth of indoor athletics in Eire, which continues to bode nicely for the long run, and this squad is assured of constructing an influence in on the worldwide stage in Belgrade.”
The athletes and coaches
| Athlete | Coach | Membership | Occasion |
| Israel Olatunde | Daniel Kilgallon | UCD AC | Males’s 60m |
| Mark English | Feidhlim Kelly | Finn Valley AC | Males’s 800m & Males’s 4x400m Relay |
| Andrew Coscoran | Feidhlim Kelly | Star of the Sea AC | Males’s 1500m |
| Luke McCann | Clark McCann | UCD AC | Males’s 1500m |
| Darragh McElhinney | Emmett Dunleavy | UCD AC | Males’s 3000m |
| Sarah Lavin | Noelle Morrissey | Emerald AC | Girls’s 60m Hurdles |
| Molly Scott | Deirdre Scott | St Laurence O’Toole’s AC | Girls’s 60m |
| Phil Healy | Shane McCormack | Bandon AC | Girls’s 400m & Girls’s 4x400m Relay |
| Sophie Becker | Jeremy Lyons & Gerard O’Donnell | Raheny Shamrocks AC | Girls’s 400m & Girls’s 4x400m Relay |
| Síofra Cleirigh Buttner | Mark Coogan | Dundrum South Dublin AC | Girls’s 800m |
| Sarah Healy | Eoghan Marnell | UCD AC | Girls’s 1500m |
| Cillin Greeneawdsley | Jeremy Lyons & Gerard O’Donnell | Galway Metropolis Harriers AC | Males’s 4x400m Relay |
| Robert McDonnell | Brendan Glynn | Galway Metropolis Harriers AC | Males’s 4x400m Relay |
| Cathal Crosbie | Drew & Hayley Harrison | Ennis Observe AC | Males’s 4x400m Relay |
| Chris O’Donnell | Benke Blomqvist | North Sligo AC | Males’s 4x400m Relay |
| Brian Gregan | John Shields | Clonliffe Harriers AC | Males’s 4x400m Relay |
| Marcus Lawler** | Shane McCormack | Clonliffe Harriers AC | Males’s 4x400m Relay |
| Sharlene Mawdsley | Gary Ryan | Newport AC | Girls’s 4x400m Relay |
| Roisin Harrison | Eoghan McNamara | Emerald AC | Girls’s 4x400m Relay |
| Catherine McManus | Brian McManus | Dublin Metropolis Harriers AC | Girls’s 4x400m Relay |
| Rachel McCann** | Michael Roberts | North Down AC | Girls’s 4x400m Relay |
** = Denotes an athlete who’s a non-travelling reserve
