World Indoors wrap: Lavin sets new PB as she finishes seventh in final via IrishTimesSport
You know what they say about making finals. Not once, but twice on Sunday the Irish 4x400 metre relay teams were left wondering what possibilities might have been on the last day of events at the World Athletics Indoor Championships inThe women’s quartet came closest to making their six-team final, Sophie Becker, Roisin Harrison, Sharlene Mawdsley andfinishing third in their heat in 3:30.97, just .06 of a second behind Jamaica, who earned the last qualifying spot.
It meant Lavin returned to the Stark Arena twice on Saturday evening, lining up after first clocking 8.03 seconds to qualify from her heat, then smashing the eight second barrier when clocking 7.97 in her semi-final. In the final, she then clocked 8.09 to finish seventh best in the world. Victory on the night went to Cyréna Samba-Mayela of France in 7.78.
That improved her own world record of 15.67m that she achieved to win the Olympic title in Tokyo; her previous indoor best had been the 15.43m she recorded in Madrid in February 2020. Ukraine’s world long jump silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk also had the triple jump competition of her life, leaping 14.74m in the final round to move from eighth to second.
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