However their teammates from the women\u2019s 4x400m final in Paris, Rhasidat Adeleke and Phil Healy, will both miss the event, with Rachel McCann along with rising stars Molly Daly and Erin Friel among the other squad members.<\/p>\n
Ireland will have teams in the women\u2019s 4x400m, mixed 4x400m and women\u2019s 4x100m. The top six nations in the mixed 4x400m will qualify for the inaugural World Ultimate Championship in Budapest in September, while the eight finalists in each event will qualify for next year’s World Championships in Beijing, with an additional four places available in the repechages.<\/p>\n
Jack Raftery returns to the World Relays after playing key roles for both the mixed and men\u2019s 4x400m teams in Guangzhou last year. He\u2019s joined in the mixed 4x400m by emerging athletes Se\u00e1n Doggett and Fintan Dewhirst, who went one-two at last month\u2019s national indoors over 400m.<\/p>\n
The Irish women\u2019s 4x100m team returns to the event for the first time since 2021. Sarah Lavin and Molly Scott both featured on that team and are selected again. National 60m champion Ciara Neville is also in the line-up while rising star Precious Akpe-Moses \u2013 the younger sister of former European U-20 100m champion Gina \u2013 could be set for her senior international debut.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited to travel with three strong squads in pursuit of 2027 World Athletics Championships qualification and in preparation for August\u2019s European Athletics Championships,\u201d said Christian Malcolm, Athletics Ireland\u2019s High Performance Sprints Lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see the progress of the 4x100m squads, with the women\u2019s squad comfortably qualified to be here, and both the men and women on track to make an impact at the European Championships in Birmingham this summer. We look forward to our final preparation camp in Stellenbosch, South Africa before we travel to Gaborone to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irish team: World Athletics Relays (May 2-3)<\/p>\n
Sharlene Mawdsley (women\u2019s 4x400m, mixed 4x400m, women\u2019s 4x100m)<\/p>\n
Sophie Becker (women\u2019s 4x400m, mixed 4x400m)<\/p>\n
Rachel McCann (women\u2019s 4x400m, mixed 4x400m)<\/p>\n
Molly Daly (women\u2019s 4x400m, mixed 4x400m)<\/p>\n
Arlene Crossan (women\u2019s 4x400m, mixed 4x400m)<\/p>\n
Erin Friel (women\u2019s 4x400m, mixed 4x400m)<\/p>\n
Jenna Breen (women\u2019s 4x400m, mixed 4x400m)<\/p>\n
Jack Raftery (mixed 4x400m)<\/p>\n
Se\u00e1n Doggett (mixed 4x400m)<\/p>\n
Fintan Dewhirst (mixed 4x400m)<\/p>\n
Ciara Neville (women\u2019s 4x100m)<\/p>\n
Precious Akpe-Moses (women\u2019s 4x100m)<\/p>\n
Molly Scott (women\u2019s 4x100m)<\/p>\n
Mollie O\u2019Reilly (women\u2019s 4x100m)<\/p>\n
Sarah Leahy (women\u2019s 4x100m)<\/p>\n
Sarah Lavin (women\u2019s 4x100m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However their teammates from the women\u2019s 4x400m final in Paris, Rhasidat Adeleke and Phil Healy, will both miss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16452,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-390213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cathal-dennehy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390213","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=390213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}