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Sharlene Mawdsley was one of Ireland’s standout performers at last year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile
Irish athletes are all set for the World Indoor Athletics Championships, which take place at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow from today until Sunday, March 3.
The Irish team will join over 600 athletes from 130 nations. The championships includes a star-studded entry list, which has 20 reigning world champions and seven gold medallists from the Tokyo Olympics.
Leading out the Irish today on day one of these championships, which will be broadcast live on Virgin Media 2, will be Sharlene Mawdsley (Newport AC) who was one of Ireland’s standout performers at last year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
Mawdsley goes into today's 400 metres ranked 13th based on her season’s best and will very much have sights set on progressing to the evening’s semi-final. World record-holder Femke Bol heads a stacked 400 metres field, which will likely result in Mawdsley having to threaten her PB of 51.91 to progress.
Mawdsley also looks set to play a leading role on the women’s 4x400 metres relay team who will take to the heats on Sunday morning, with eyes once again set on making another global final. There are nine countries entered in the women’s 4x400 metres relay, which includes teams from leading medal favourites Jamaica, USA and the Netherlands.
The women’s 4x400 metres relay team has proved to be one of Ireland’s most consistent performers at major championships, however, and another huge showing can be expected from the team of Mawdsley, Sophie Becker (Raheny Shamrock AC), Phil Healy (Bandon AC), Roisin Harrison (Emerald AC), Rachel McCann (North Down AC), and Lauren Cadden (Sligo AC).
The final is set for 8.30pm on Sunday.
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