Rhasidat Adeleke
Athletics
BIOGRAPHY
Rhasidat was a true prodigy, winning European sprint 100m/200m doubles at Youth and Junior level, including a European U18 200m title when she was just 15. She now holds the full deck of Irish senior sprint records (60m to 400m) adding the 100m at Nationals last month with a sensational 11:13. Tallaght AC nurtured her talent before she moved to the University of Texas, USA in early 2021, and even before she specialised in one lap she was ninth at 400m in her first World Championships, and fifth at Europeans in 2022. In 2023 she became the first Irish athlete to win an NCAA title and was fourth at World Championships.
This year she has already won three European senior medals (gold in the mixed relay and silver in individual 400m (in a new Irish record) and women’s 4x400m), and helped the same relay squads qualify for Paris at the World Relays in Nassau where the mixed team took bronze. Rhasidat waived her final year of NCAA eligibility to go pro in the past year but remained at the University of Texas from which she recently graduated with a degree in Corporate Communications.
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Next Sunday evening, December 15th at 9:30 pm, the RTÉ Sport Awards 2024 will air live on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player. Hosted by Joanne Cantwell, Darragh Maloney, and Jacqui Hurley from Studio 4 in RTÉ, the event will celebrate Irish sporting excellence in front of an audience filled with the nation’s top athletes. [...]
FIONNUALA MCCORMACK 28TH IN MARATHON IN RECORD FIFTH GAMES
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RHASIDAT ADELEKE FOURTH IN 400M OLYMPIC FINAL
Team Ireland’s Rhasidat Adeleke has finished fourth (49.28) in the 400m final at the Olympic Games in Paris; the first time an Irish female athlete has ever contested an Olympic sprint final. Ireland’s first ever heptathlete at an Olympic Games Kate O’Connor finished 14th overall at her debut Olympic Games after a seasons best time [...]
DAY 13 MORNING REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND
Team Ireland’s women’s 4x400m relay team have made yet more history at these Paris Olympic Games by becoming the first women’s relay team ever to make an Olympic final, qualifying with a third place finish in their heat. Hurdler Sarah Lavin and 800m athlete Mark English both ran really well placing sixth in their respective semi-finals but missed out on the [...]
WOMEN’S 4x400m RELAY TEAM MAKE HISTORY QUALIFYING FOR OLYMPIC FINAL
Team Ireland’s women’s 4x400m relay team have made yet more history at these Paris Olympic Games by becoming the first women’s relay team ever to make an Olympic final, qualifying with a third place finish in their heat. Hurdler Sarah Lavin and 800m athlete Mark English both ran really well placing sixth in their respective semi-finals but missed out on the [...]
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