The 25-year-old from Tipperary is now focused on the Paris Olympics
Sharlene Mawdsley celebrates after securing a spot in the final of the Women's 400m at World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
The Irish women’s 4x400m team of Roisin Harrison, Kelly McGrory, Sophie Becker and Sharlene Mawdsley at the World Athletic Championships in Budapest. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho “But I suppose it’s done with now, I had to already get back into training, get back on the focus of the Bahamas , the Europeans and the Olympics . And I’ve taken a lot of confidence into outdoors.”
Still, missing out on Tokyo remains a bit of a sore spot, her reaction to that disappointment coming just a few weeks after the decision was made to leave her at home. She ran 51.70 in Ninove in Belgium, taking a sizeable chunk off her previous lifetime. That also reinforced her decision to try again for Paris.
“My first year in college, I kept getting injured, and didn’t race the whole of 2018. Again it was the new scene of being in college, making friends, going out . . . so I kept getting injured, and didn’t race at all.
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