Women’s relay team take bronze at University Games

IRELAND picked up a fourth athletics medal on the final day of the World University Games in Turkey as the women’s squad finished third in the 4x100m relay.

Russia won gold in Izmir in 43.62 seconds with France taking silver in 43.73.

The Irish quartet of Derval O’Rourke, Anna Boyle, Ailis McSweeney and Emily Maher finished in 44.69, holding off Canada for the bronze medal by just under one 1/10th of a second.