Thomas Barr voted European athlete of month

Thomas Barr is European athlete of the month for April, rewarded for his European-leading 400m hurdles time of 49.08 to win at the Tom Jones Classic in Gainesville, USA, on April 24.

Voting for European athlete of the month took place through the European athletics Twitter and Facebook pages over the weekend. Athletes with the most combined Twitter ‘retweets’ and Facebook ‘likes’ were crowned the winners.

The Ferrybank hurdler, based in Limerick, had by far the most support on the men’s side with over 1,300 Facebook votes and 280 retweets and favourites on Twitter.