Live: Rhasidat Adeleke finishes fourth in the 400m final
FOURTH PLACE: Ireland’s Rhasidat Adeleke on her way to finishing fourth. Picture: @INPHO/James Crombie
Rhasidat Adeleke will run in the 4x400m Relay final tomorrow evening. She will take to the track alongside Sophie Becker, Phil Healy and Sharlene Mawdsley.
Kate O'Connor finishes sixth in the 800m in the last event in the Heptathlon in a time of 2:13.03. It is a season best time and she gets 918 points which leaves her in 14th place overall. That is just one place off her World Championship performance.
A very disappointed Rhasidat Adeleke spoke with RTÉ post race. The 21-year-old said "I don't know.
"I wanted it today. I've been working for it today. It didn't happen today. It's just life, it's sport."
Rhasidat Adeleke finishes in fourth in the 400m final in a time of 49.28. Dominican Republic's Mariledy Paulino won in an Olympic Record time of 48.17 with Bahrain's Salwa Eid Naser taking silver in 48.53 and Poland's Natalia Kaczarek taking bronze in 48.98.
The athlete's are ready to go on the track at the Stade de France.
Rhasidat Adeleke's Mum was speaking with RTÉ before the race and is "I'm very, very glad. I don't know what to say." She is very grateful for all the support her daughter has received both in Paris and at home.
: We are 15 minutes away from the 400m Women's final with Rhasidat Adeleke making history for Ireland.
We're 45 minutes from the gun of Rhasidat Adeleke's 400m final. She goes from lane 4.
In track cycling, the Irish pair of Alice Sharpe and Lara Gillespie finished 11th in the Madison.
4:44pm: The cult of Irish basketball commentator Timmy McCarthy has grown larger than ever at these Olympic Games. Timmy spoke to Kieran Shannon about his battle with cancer and his love for the sport ahead of this weekend's big games in Paris.
In May 2023 he left a bed in the Galway Clinic to go up to Dun Laoghaire to be inducted into the Basketball Ireland Hall of Fame. The following morning he returned to that bed in Galway. He had been so frail at the banquet, some friends feared that it could be the last time they’d see him.
“I had a tough year last year all right,” says McCarthy now. “I had been doing great, feeling great, and then you had to deal with this hammer-blow that the cancer had returned."
Read the full interview with Timmy.
A decision on boxing's inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has to be made in 2025, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said on Friday.
"During the course of next year, as soon as possible. But we cannot wait longer than the end of next year," Bach told a press conference.
Read more on the story.
Stephanie Meadow finished level par for the third round at Le Golf National. She's +8 overall and tied for 43rd.
At 5:09pm this evening, the Irish pairing of Alice Sharpe and Lara Gillespie will race against 14 teams in the always spectacular and highly entertaining Madison cycling event.
The Madison is a relay race in pairs, like a tag team, with one rider competing while the other recovers by riding slowly around the top of the track, before the changeover via a hand sling from their team-mate. It’s a 120 lap, 30km points race with a sprint every ten laps and the potential to make big points gains by lapping the main group.
Leona Maguire finished +11 for her third round at Le Gold National. She's now on +24 overall and second last of the 60 competitors.
“It possibly didn't help that I strained my abductor in the warm up as well but I don't want to use that as the excuse. I couldn't have given it any more.”
Read more from the 4x400m relay team along with English and Sarah Lavin.
Kate O'Connor is up to 14th in the heptathlon after throwing a best of 50.36m in the javelin. The final event, the 800m, is at 7:25pm tonight.
Kate O'Connor throws 50.36m with her first effort in the heptathlon's javelin element and 50.17m with her second. The javelin is one of her strongest events and she's still about 2m off her best. She threw 46.63 with her third and final effort.
Sophie Becker: "It's an amazing feeling. We said we were going to do it - we did it!" Sharlene Mawdsley: "We're going into a final with an auto Q, we're absolutely buzzing. We're in an Olympic, I can't believe it!"
"I have to be immensely proud," she told RTÉ.
"I hit hurdle number eight. You have to be precise. It was going to be the best race I could put out up until the eighth hurdle. I have to look back on the race. I knew I had to run under 12.55 if I wasn't in the top two. Today, I'm not good enough. I gave everything that I had for the last three years. The last time I was at an Olympics, I ran 13.17. To be nearly half a second quicker is special."
Sarah Lavin finishes sixth in her semi-final, running 12.69. She will not progress to the final.
In the 100m hurdles semi-final, Sarah Lavin will have to finish in the top two to qualify automatically for the final. The next two fastest will also progress.
The javelin element of Kate O'Connor's heptathlon starts soon.
"That wasn't the result that I wanted today," he told RTÉ.
"I tried to win it. It just wasn't my day today. It was their day. My heat performance was the best perforamnce I ever put in at an Olympic Games. I'm privileged to even line up in an Olympic semi-final. That's the best 24 in the world."
Sarah Lavin goes in the second semi-final of the 100m hurdles shortly. The first of three semis gets underway at 11:05am Irish time.
Mark English positioned himself well in his 800m semi-final but didn't have the extra gear required going down the home straight. He finished sixth with the top two from each semi-final and the next two fastest non-automatic qualifiers going through to the final.
“Right now I am going to go and party for three days. Then I am going to do the homecoming in Dublin. I'll be on the open top bus and after that I've got a homecoming in Magheralin on Tuesday and my friend’s coming over to Ireland.
“I’m going to show him around and then I’m going on holiday to Barcelona, Bali, Italy. I’m going all over. It’s going to be a lot of fun and then I’ll come back and start training again for the World Short Course Championships.”
Daniel Wiffen told Brendan O'Brien what lies in his future after his performance in the Seine earlier. Read more.
9.58am: Athletics
A storming final leg from Sharlene Mawdsley has booked Ireland's qualification for the final of the 4X400m relay. Sophie Becker led Ireland out with a smashing 50.9 run, leaving Phil Healy with a lead that she held. Kelly McGrory was reined in down the home straight, leaving Mawdsley in fourth. But the Tipperary woman did the business with a sub-50 final leg to bring Ireland home in third to secure a qualification place for the Olympic final.
Brendan O'Brien was up extra early to get quayside for Daniel Wiffen's debut in the Seine; he sends this report.
Cathal Dennehy and Maurice Brosnan dialled in for an early-morning podcast chat, that you can listen to over your coffee.
"There is still so much development left there, but Friday 7pm might not be too early either. [Adeleke] is capable of executing to the required level and edging herself onto the podium. We just have to sit back now and watch what athletics does best, where it comes down to raw racing. Eight women all out for three medals.
So, who can get them?"
In an exclusive column, Derval O'Rourke previews the big one for Irish sports fans in Paris this evening.
Wiffen comes home in a very respectable 18th spot, around six and a half minutes behind the gold medal winner.
It's gold for Hungary’s Kristof Rasovszky, silver for Germany’s Oliver Klemet while another Hungarian, David Betlehem takes bronze.
Wiffen yet to finish.
How's Wiffen going? On his debut in this discipline, he's completed lap five in 20th spot - they're an hour and 45 minutes or so into this.
What better way to start a massive Friday at the Olympics, then a cold plunge into the Seine.
On an historic day for Irish sport, Rhasidat Adeleke goes in the 400m final tonight - before that Sarah Lavin takes on the 100m hurdle semi-final, Mark English is out again and, at the moment, golden boy Daniel Wiffen has swaped the pool for the 10km open swim.
Here's everything you need to know this morning.
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