Ademola breaks Irish U-23 indoor long jump record

The MTU student soared out to 7.93m in the opening round of the long jump.

CZECH OUT: Reece Ademola of Leevale AC. Picture: Tyler Miller/Sportsfile

For Reece Ademola and Sarah Lavin, 7.93 proved the magic number at the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Tuesday evening, with Ademola breaking the Irish U-23 indoor long jump record and Lavin continuing her fine start to the season in the 60m hurdles.

Ademola, a student at Munster Technological University, soared out to 7.93m in the opening round of the long jump, improving the Irish U-23 indoor record of 7.86m he jumped in Denmark last week. It was just shy of his Irish U-23 outdoor record of 7.97m and puts the Leevale athlete third on the Irish all-time indoor list behind Ciarán McDonagh (8.00m) and Adam McMullen (7.99m). It placed him third on the night, with Greece’s Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou taking victory with 8.09m, and it earned the 20-year-old Corkman valuable ranking points on his quest for Olympic qualification.