There were notable upsets at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland over the weekend but there was no stopping New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams, who won her 44th consecutive major title.

It was always going to be a tough ask for the five Irish athletes to progress from their respective heats on day one of the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland yesterday, and so it proved, with none of the quintet able to make it to a final.

Ciarán Ó Lionáird became Ireland’s latest medallist at a major athletics championships, as Brian Gregan’s hopes for glory bit the dust in devastating fashion.