Athletics Ireland has selected 19 athletes to travel to represent Ireland at the World Indoor Championships taking place on March 18th to 20th in Belgrade, Serbia.
Molly Scott is set take the World Indoor Championships by storm after her record-breaking 60m performance at the Irish Life Health National Senior Indoor Championships in February, retaking the Irish Record with a time of 7.19.
Phil Healy has been a strong feature of the Irish indoor season, after winning the Irish life Health National Senior Indoor Championships Healy went on to set a new 400m PB, 51.66, at the World Indoor Tour in Madrid last week.
Mark English takes to the 800m and the Men’s 4x400m. The 2022 season has seen a series of consistent and strong performances from the Finn Valley Star with a sixth-place finish at the World Athletics Indoor Tour in Poland before coming to the Irish Life Health National Senior Indoor Championships to take the top spot
Israel Olatunde features in the 60m after his performance at the Irish Life Health National Senior Indoor Championships, securing not only his standard to qualify for these championships but also a new PB of 6.62 just 0.01 away from the National Senior record.
Sarah Healy is set for the 1500m and will be pushing for the final or better. The 21-year-old has had a superb indoor season breaking her own U23 Record in February setting the time at 4:06.95, the second-fastest ever by an Irish woman, after Ciara Mageean.
“Ireland had one athlete compete at the 2016 World Indoor Championships and five athletes compete at the 2018 edition, we have now selected a team of eleven individual athletes, plus the selection of two relay teams both of which will be pushing towards a final and new national record,” said High Performance Director Paul McNamara.
“These figures underpin a significant increase in the strength and depth of indoor athletics in Ireland, which continues to bode well for the future, and this squad is confident of making an impact on the global stage in Belgrade.”
