Sharlene Mawdsley marked her return to the track with a victory in the women’s 400m at the 62nd Palio Citt\u00e0 della Quercia meet in Rovereto, Italy.<\/p>\n
The Tipperary sprinter had missed last month’s European Athletic Championsips<\/a> in Birmingham due to a hamstring tear sustained during a 200m race<\/a> at July’s National Championships in Santry.<\/p>\n But the 28-year-old was able to return with a winning feeling in Italy on Tuesday evening at an event that is a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meet.<\/p>\n Mawdsley won her race in a time of 50.58, just ahead of Britain’s Charlotte Henrich.<\/p>\n At the same meet, Sarah Healy narrowly missed out on the podium in the women’s 1500m race.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old Dubliner ran a time of 4:02.72 which was just 0.55 behind third-place finisher Margot Appleton of the United States. Sophie O’Sullivan came home 11th in 4:06.80.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Eric Favors finished eighth in the men’s shot put with a mark of 19.67.<\/p>\n Bori Akinola was sixth in race B of the men’s 100m final in a time of 10.40.<\/p>\n In the men’s 3000m final, Darragh McElhinney (7:49.97) and Brian Fay (7:57.48) finished 16th and 19th respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharlene Mawdsley marked her return to the track with a victory in the women’s 400m at the 62nd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-618671","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\/618671","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=618671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}