Rhasidat Adeleke sets Irish 200m record; Brendan Boyce ninth at European Race Walking Cup

While Adeleke’s times fell shy of the automatic Olympic qualifying standard, they will propel her up the world rankings and if she can produce similar results in the weeks ahead, she could still earn a spot via the athlete quota

Rhasidat Adeleke.

Teenage sprint star Rhasidat Adeleke produced the performance of her life to become the fastest Irishwoman of all time over 200m on Saturday night, the 18-year-old Dubliner clocking 22.96 seconds (+0.8m/s) in Manhattan, Kansas.

That took 0.03 off the Irish record set by Phil Healy in Cork in 2018. Earlier in the evening Adeleke, a first-year student at the University of Texas, broke the national U20 and U23 100m records by clocking 11.31 (+1.0m/s), which put her second on the all-time Irish list behind Healy’s 11.28.