Derval to face Canadian star at Cork IT

DERVAL O’ROURKE, who has yet to win at Cork City Sports, again faces a huge assignment when she lines up alongside Olympic bronze medallist Priscilla Lopes-Schlep from Canada in the 100m hurdles at the CIT Track on Saturday.

Again the organisers have put an exceptionally strong international field together for the feature event for what will be the 59th staging of Ireland’s premier athletics meeting.

Not only did the Canadian finish third behind Dawn Harper (USA) and Sally McLellan (Australia) in Beijing in 2008, she finished runner-up to Brigitte Foster-Hylton (Jamaica) at the world championships in Berlin last year when O’Rourke came back from injury to take fourth in an exciting final.