Rhasidat Adeleke
Athletics
BIOGRAPHY
From the start, Rhasidat Adeleke 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 holds the full deck of Irish senior sprint records (60m to 400m). Tallaght AC nurtured her talent before she moved to the University of Texas, USA in early 2021.
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.
In 2024 she won three European senior medals (gold in the mixed relay and silver in both the individual 400m 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.
At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Rhasidat finished fourth in the women’s 400m final, setting a new Irish national record with a time of 49.28 seconds. She also contributed to the women’s 4x400m relay team, which came fourth in their final and established a national record.
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