Rising star Lavin shows steel with powerful Sheffield run

Sarah Lavin’s stock continued to rise yesterday at the British Athletics Indoor championships in Sheffield with a bronze medal over the 60m hurdles in 8.25 moving her to second on the Irish all-time record list.

The Emerald AC athlete completed a busy few days, having won over the sprint hurdles at the Irish Universities on Friday in 8.36.

Lavin improved further in Sheffield to a new personal best of 8.25 and usurping 1996 Olympian Susan Smith (8.30) on the Irish senior rankings to lie behind Derval O’Rourke’s world-class 7.84 which the Cork woman set when winning the world indoor title in Moscow in 2006. UCD student Lavin will now attempt the world indoor standard (8.16) at the national championships next weekend.