Junior athletes display their talent at world level

JOANNE CUDDIHY (Kilkenny) finished 6th in her 400m final at the World Junior Athletics Championships in Kingston, Jamaica but with a personal best 53.36s on the clock. Monique Henderson (USA) won in 51.10s.

In the men’s 400m, victory went to Darold Williamson of the USA in 45.37s. David McCarthy (Celbridge) finished 7th, down on his best of 47.10s.

And in the 10,000m walk Ann Loughnane (Loughrea) was 16th in 51m 11.54s in a race won by Japan’s Fumi Mitsumara in 46m 01.56s. In the Jamiaca heat, the Irish walker was over a minute down on her time at Kilkenny in May.