Sarah Lavin saw off an impressive effort from multi-event athlete Katie O’Connor to claim her eighth National Senior Indoor 60m hurdles title at the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Lavin produced a smooth run to cross in a winning time of 8.07, finishing ahead of O’Connor who ran a PB of 8.21 to go third on the Irish all-time list behind Derval O\u2019Rourke and Lavin. Orlaith Mannion was third in a time of 8.45.<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to the World Indoor Championsips in Poland in three weeks’ time, Lavin told RT\u00c9 Sport’s Greg Allen: “I’d be lying to you if I said I wasn’t a tiny bit disappointed not to go sub-eight (seconds) today, but at the same time 8.0 is reasonable and respectable.<\/p>\n
“My first hurdle has definitely improved. I think now it’s very much getting that synchronicity between the timing of it that isn’t exactly comfortable at the moment. I’m trying to marry it all together.”<\/p>\n
For O’Connor, it was a very satisfying day’s work. The Dundalk woman had a remarkable 2025, winning heptathlon silver at the World Championships in Tokyo, gold at the World University Games, and medals at both the World and European Indoor Championships.<\/p>\n
To put it up to Lavin in the 60m hurdles was highly encouraging; O’Connor bettered her previous PB by nine one-hundreths of a second.<\/p>\n
“I’m absolutely delighted,” she said. “I went out there in the heat and I walked away and I was like, ‘what was that?’, because I’ve been training really well and I wanted to come out and execute that and I just felt like I didn’t. So then I put myself in the position of like, ‘right, you’ve got one chance to commit to this’ and I committed to it in the final.<\/p>\n
“And that’s what I came ultimately here for, to shake off the cobwebs and get myself ready for World Indoors. I think I’ve put myself in a pretty good position.<\/p>\n
“I expect PBs for myself all throughout indoors again. So I’ll go out and do my best to do that.”<\/p>\n
O’Connor competes in the long jump event on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Sophie Becker stormed to her first national senior indoor 200m title with a superb indoor PB of 23.43, having clocked 23.52 in the afternoon’s earlier heats.<\/p>\n
Racing out of lane 6, Becker utilised her opening 100m speed to break clear of the field to cross ahead of Molly Daly (24.07) and Mollie O\u2019Reilly (24.14).<\/p>\n
“I am very happy with that,” Becker told RT\u00c9 Sport.<\/p>\n
“I think I wanted to come out here and win it and I wanted to run a PB so they’re very two big boxes ticked. Unfortunately I haven’t qualified for the World Indoors but I think I need the extra few weeks just to get back into winter training, back to a block of that and then we have the World Relay Championships in April so hopefully I’ll be on the squad for that.”<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s 60m hurdles went the way of Adam Nolan who successfully defended his 2025 gold with a 8.03. Sean Carmody was second in 8.19, with last year\u2019s high jump champion Ciaran Connolly third in 8.45.<\/p>\n
Mark Smyth won his third national indoor title in a titanic tussle with defending champion Marcus Lawler. The Raheny ace wasn\u2019t for catching as he held off a strong finishing Lawler to cross in a winning time of 21.11. Lawler crossed for second in 21.24, with Adam Murphy third in 21.68.<\/p>\n
A second helping of championship action will follow on Sunday with he likes of Sharlene Mawdsley, Andrew Coscoran, and Irish 60m record-holder Bori Akinola set to take to competition.<\/p>\n
RESULTS<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s 200m<\/p>\n
1 Sophie Becker Raheny (Shamrock AC) 23.43
2 Molly Daly (Kilkenny City Harriers AC) 24.07
3 Mollie O’Reilly (Dundrum South Dublin AC) 24.14<\/p>\n
Men’s 200m<\/p>\n
1 Mark Smyth (Raheny Shamrock AC) 21.11
2 Marcus Lawler (Clonliffe Harriers AC) 21.24
3 Adam Murphy (Tinryland AC) 21.68<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s 60m hurdles<\/p>\n
1 Sarah Lavin (Emerald AC) 8.07
2 Katherine O’Connor (Dundalk St Gerards AC) 8.21
3 Orlaith Mannion (South Galway AC) 8.45<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s 60m hurdles<\/p>\n
1 Adam Nolan (St Laurence O’Toole AC) 8.03
2 Sean Carmody (Leevale AC) 8.19
3 Ciaran Connolly (Le Cheile AC) 8.45<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s High Jump<\/p>\n
1 Aoife O’Sullivan (Liscarroll AC) 1.75
2 Sommer Lecky (Finn Valley AC) 1.75
3 Lauren Duffy (Bohermeen AC) 1.65
3 Maeve Fleming (Leevale AC) 1.65<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s High Jump<\/p>\n
1 Mohammed Ibrahim Halil (Raheny Shamrock AC) 1.93
2 Darragh Kelly (Craughwell AC) 1.90
3 Emmanuel Osas (Ratoath AC) 1.90<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s WFD<\/p>\n
1 Michael Healy (Leevale AC) 9.11 NR
2 David Tierney (Leevale AC) 7.99
3 Robert Higgins (Na Fianna AC) 7.08<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s WFD<\/p>\n
1 Kotryna Pacerinskaite (Fanahan McSweeney AC) 8.70 NR
2 Laura Dolan (Ferbane AC) 6.46
3 Bridget McDyer (Finn Valley AC) 6.29<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s Triple Jump<\/p>\n
1 David Onwudiwe (Ennis Track AC) 13.96
2 Darragh Fahy (Loughrea AC) 13.94
3 Joseph Gillespie (Finn Valley AC) 13.75<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s Triple Jump<\/p>\n
1 Daphni Doulpsti Teeuwen (Raheny Shamrock AC) 12.54
2 Caoimhe McDonagh (South Sligo AC) 12.21
3 Anna Ryan (Moycarkey Coolcroo AC) 11.49<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Lavin saw off an impressive effort from multi-event athlete Katie O’Connor to claim her eighth National Senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-323020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}