The Tallaght athlete produced the performance of the weekend to send out a warning to her Olympic medal rivals
The icing on the cake for Ireland's relay teams in Nassau came in the shape of an historic bronze medal for the 4X400m mixed relay final.
Both the mixed and women's teams had already qualified for Olympics by virtue of their performance in the heats 24 hours earlier in the championships in the Bahamas.Then the mixed team turned up the heat in their final, breaking the national record for the second time over a special weekend to finish in a time of 3:11.53, behind the gold medal winners USA and the Netherlands .
He powered through the third leg to hand over to Sharlene Mawdsley for the anchor leg in second place. "I really appreciate my teammates; Cillín gave it to me in a brilliant position so I just took that and built on it,” Adeleke said later.
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