O’Dwyer happy with qualifying height

ADRIAN O’Dwyer expressed delight yesterday following confirmation that the qualifying height for the final of the men’s high jump is 2.28m.

“It’s great news,” he said. “And I just can’t wait to compete. I am so eager to get going I want to jump over everything I see.”

Within hours of competing for Ireland in the European Cup in Iceland, he cleared 2.32 at the Grand Prix in Algiers to achieve the Olympic A standard. That jump would have won him a medal at the last Olympics.