The 21-year-old from Tallaght races in the sixth 400m heat on Monday, ranked third-fastest this year
Olympics Day 9 live updates: Daniel Wiffen wins bronze in the 1500m freestyle final, bringing Ireland’s medal count to sevenHowever, two other women have run significantly faster from before 2024 – the 2023 World champion Marileidy Paulino from the Dominican Republic has run 48.76, and 2019 World champion Salwa Eid Naser from Bahrain has run 48.14.
For the first time, Ireland has the full individual quota of three women in the 400m. Sophie Becker has been drawn in heat one, with a best of 51.13, with the likes of Naser for company, and also Kendall Ellis, who won the US Trials in June.is out in heat five, her best of 50.72 ranked sixth fastest of that heat, which also includes Paulino.
That coach being Edrick Floréal, better known as Coach Flo, who has nurtured Adeleke’s rare talent since she moved to the University of Texas at the start of 2021. There are already clear and exciting signs that he’s got the peaking part spot on. She’s not yet at the peak of her sprinter powers, though. It’s still just over two years since she raced her first individual 400m, and it was in May of 2022 that she first broke the Irish record, her 50.70 eclipsing the 50.73 which had stood to Joanne Cuddihy since 2007.
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