Adeleke and Mageean spearhead 23-strong Irish team for World Championships

Hopes are Ireland can clinch a first World Championships medal on the track since 1995 when Sonia O’Sullivan won gold.

NEXT LEVEL: Irish record holder, Rhasidat Adeleke pictured this week. INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Rhasidat Adeleke and Ciara Mageean will spearhead a 23-strong team for the World Athletics Championships in Budapest this month, the largest ever Irish squad selected for the event.

Hopes will be high one of them can win Ireland’s first World Championships medal on the track since 1995, when Sonia O’Sullivan won gold over 5,000m. Rob Heffernan is the last Irish athlete to reach the podium at the championships, his 50km race walk gold in Moscow reaching its 10th anniversary this month.