Sharlene Mawdsley shines a light on her Olympic potential

Sharlene Mawdsley prepares to compete in the women's 400 metres heats on day one of the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 2024. Photograph: Alex Pantling/Getty Imagesat the World Athletics Relays in the Bahamas a fortnight ago – and not unfairly given Adeleke clocked the fastest 400 metre-split in the event history – it was Mawdsley who produced the shining performance of this weekend.

‘I did it’, Mawdsley said in a simple X post, the 25-year-old from Tipperary now bound for her first Olympics after missing out on selection for Tokyo It’s just reward too for her coach Gary Ryan, Tipperary’s two-time Olympian in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, who took Mawdsley under his wing in 2018, at a time when she was in danger of drifting away from the sport completely.

Adeleke meanwhile again mixed it up with the best sprinters in the world, nailing fourth place over 200 metres at the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix on Saturday evening. Racing into a -0.3 headwind, Adeleke clocked 22.45 seconds, just short of her Irish record of 22.34 seconds that she ran in Florida in April of last year.

The 21-year-old Dublin sprinter finished ahead of Gabby Thomas, who won bronze in the event at the Tokyo Olympics and silver at last year’s World Championships.

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