The 20-year-old UCD student breaks the indoor 60m mark to go with his outdoor 100m record last summer
Quite the show. Ireland’s fastest man is now undisputed, Olatunde’s time knocking a sizeable 0.04 slice off Paul Hession’s national indoor record of 6.61, which had stood for the last 16 years; after breaking Hession’s outdoor 100m record last summer, clocking 10.17 seconds to finish sixth in the European Championship final, Olatunde has again broken fresh ground for Irish sprinting, the 20 year-old still only getting going too.
“Yep all good, I just got a bit excited,” he said. “I just came here wanting to give my all. It’s been a little bit of a rocky season, my coach [Daniel Kilgallon] just kept me focused, we knew the times would come. And championships are the best times to give the best performance, I’m so happy to do it in front of this crowd here, it’s awesome.”
The women’s 60m final witnessed a changing of the guard, Sarah Leahy of Killarney Valley winning her first senior indoor title with a lifetime best of 7.30, the Leevale duo of Joan Healy and Lucy-May Sleeman also making the podium. “It is huge,” he said. “I suppose you kind of get some idea of it if you’ve won underage titles, but you see how huge a national title is and the acclaim that comes with it.”Minutes earlier his training partner Sophie Becker from Raheny Shamrock dominated the women’s 400m in similar style, the New Ross athlete winning in 53.11 from Phil Healy , denying the Cork athlete an eighth indoor title.
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