{"id":463879,"date":"2026-05-23T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463879\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:42:09","slug":"mawdsley-seals-second-win-of-week-in-new-pb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463879\/","title":{"rendered":"Mawdsley seals second win of week in new PB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tipperary athlete Sharlene Mawdsley ran a new personal best of 50.17 seconds to win the 400m at the Continental Tour Bronze meeting in Brussels on Saturday evening, adding to her victory in Italy earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Local favourite Helena Ponette was just under a second behind, clocking 51.15, with French athlete Isabelle Black finishing third in 51.34.<\/p>\n

Mawdsley improved on the 50.52 personal best she set in her season opener on Wednesday in Italy<\/a>, a time that surpassed her previous best from the Olympic Games in Paris two years ago.<\/p>\n

The European mixed relay gold medallist sliced a further 0.35 seconds off that mark at the meeting in the King Baudouin Stadium, moving to within touching distance of the elusive 50-second barrier in the one-lap event.<\/p>\n

While Mawdsley faces a busy summer schedule, the European Athletics Championships from 10 to 16 August remain her main target.<\/p>\n

Her new personal best would have been enough to secure individual 400m bronze in three of the last four editions of the championships.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Niamh Allen claimed another top-10 finish with sixth and led the Irish women’s team to silver in the European 10,000m Cup in La Spezia, Italy.<\/p>\n

Allen clocked a season’s best time of 32 minutes and 15 seconds, an Athletics Ireland ‘B standard’ for the European Athletics Championships in August for the 25-lap race.<\/p>\n

Elzbieta Glinka of Poland won the title in 31:45.36, from Alessia Zarbo of France.<\/p>\n

Cork native Fiona Everard finished in tenth position in a new personal best time of 32:41.38.<\/p>\n

Sorcha Nic Dh\u00f3mhnaill, Faye Dervan, Emily Haggard-Kearney and Patricia Jackman also contributed to Ireland’s team score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tipperary athlete Sharlene Mawdsley ran a new personal best of 50.17 seconds to win the 400m at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-463879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463879","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=463879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}