SARAH LAVIN STORMED to victory in the women’s 100m hurdles at the World Continental Tour Gold Meet in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
In the heat, the Emerald AC athlete finished first with a time of 12.80, pipping Poland’s Marika Majewska (13.03).
Less than 90 minutes later, Lavin prevailed again in the final, finishing in 12.74 ahead of Slovakia’s Viktoria Forster and Majewska, who were neck and neck with identical times of 12.96.
In the men’s 400m hurdles, Thomas Barr ran a season-best 48.79, placing second behind Brazil’s Matheus Lima (48.31).
Vit Muller of the Czech Republic was third with a time of 49.07.
In the men’s 1500m, Ireland’s Charlie O’Donovan finished ninth (3:42.52) out of 14 competitors.
Italy’s Federico Riva was first (3:36.87) ahead of Netherlands’ Stefan Nillessen (3:37.03) and fellow Italian Ossama Meslek (3:37.37)
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I’m no expert on Olympic sports but are we on course for our best olympics ever the way it’s shaping up?
@Daire O’Reilly: in a word, hell yeah!
@Daire O’Reilly: boxing, athletics and rowing (and others), I don’t think we’ve every had as many medal prospects
@Daire O’Reilly: we should continue having it every 2 years ;)
@Dave McAuliffe: Absolutely, and don’t forget swimming, gymnastics and golf. All high on my hopes of medals as well.
@Kevin Dillon: rugby sevens has a good chance too.
@James Murphy: and the horses sailors cyclists
G’wan the girl!!!!
@brian fantana: brilliant
No disrespect intended to Charlie O’Donovan, but that’s a woefully bad time for 1500m. To put it in some perspective, Ronnie Delaney ran 3.41.2 in 1956 when he won the gold in the Melbourne Olympics. You’d think just short of 70 years later, we might be able to do it a little bit faster
@Richard Powell: why would you write the words no disrespect at the start if your comment and then continue on to write something pretty disrespectful. I suggest you hit the track tonight and see how close to that “woeful” time you can manage.
Because of an Internet problem, I am unable to respond directly to a message posted in response to mine which was mildly critical of O’Donovan’s 1500m time. I believe the post was by Colm O’Loughlin (apologies if I got the name wrong).
If you consider it disrespectful to point out the time is 16 seconds slower than the world record, 13 seconds slower than the fastest time in the world this year and 10 seconds slower than Olympic qualifying time then I am certainly guilty. However, I think it’s reasonable to point to a time in excess of 3.42 @ 1500 metres as chronically slow and not good enough for a potential Olympic athlete. That isn’t disrespect, it’s fact.