Adeleke smashes Irish 200m record in Texas

Rhasidat Adeleke of Ireland (Photo by Joosep Martinson/Getty Images for European Athletics)

Teenage sprint star Rhasidat Adeleke continued her superb season by smashing the Irish women’s 200m record on Saturday at the Texas dual meet, clocking 22.59.

With an ideal following wind of 2.0 metres per second, the maximum allowed for record purposes, the 19-year-old Dubliner obliterated the 22.85 mark she ran indoors this year, along with the 22.90 she ran to break the record outdoors last summer.