The Irish woman finished fifth at the Citius Meeting in Bern in 12.67
Ireland's Sarah Lavin was in action at the Citius Meeting in Bern on Friday. Photograph: Bryan Keane/InphoImproving her lifetime best over the 100m hurdles not once but twice in just over an hour, Sarah Lavin finished just marginally short of breaking the 13-year-old Irish record belonging to Derval O’Rourke at the Citius Meeting in Bern on Friday evening.
In her final race before the World Championships in Budapest later this month, Lavin first clocked 12.72 in the second heat, finishing third, with that eclipsing her previous best of 12.73 run at the Stockholm Diamond League. Then, just over an hour later in the final, Lavin broke 12.70, nailing fifth place in 12.67 – just .02 off O’Rourke’s record of 12.65 set when winning the silver medal at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona.
That’s clearly within Lavin’s reach now. The 29 year-old from Limerick was again mixing it with some of the best in the world in Bern, where local star Ditaji Kambundji improving the Swiss record to 12.47, ran a meeting record and the fastest time by a European this year.
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