We preview the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
Gavin Cooney LAST YEAR REMINDED the Irish public of their appetite for championship racing, and happily the European Indoors are here after a long, hungry winter.
An appearance in the final will be her minimum target: Mawdsley is ranked fifth among those running in the 400m, below only a couple of recognisable faces in Britain’s Amber Anning and Norway’s Henriette Jaeger – both of whom ran in the Olympic final last year – along with Netherlands’ Lieke Klaver and Czech teenager Lurdes Gloria Manuel, who were third and fourth respectively in the European 400m outdoor final last year.
English, meanwhile, won silver at the 2015 edition of these championships and bronze in 2019. He and Ciara Mageean medaled for Ireland in Glasgow six years ago – there hasn’t been an Irish medal won at these championships since.English is ranked third going into this weekend, however, one place ahead of Longford’s Cian McPhillips, the 2021 European U20 champion who has had his recent progress stymied by a combination of injury, illness, and the upheaval necessary in college life.
New national 60m champion Bori Akinola will compete at his first senior international championship for Ireland, while James Gormley and Jodie McCann will go in the men’s and women’s 3000m respectively.
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