Longford athlete Adeyemi Talabi has been named on the Irish 4x100 metre relay team for the World championship semi-final tonight.
Talabi will run the second leg from Leevale’s Joan Healy on the opening leg. Leg three will be ran by city of Lisburn’s Lauren Roy with Killarney Valley’s Sarah Leahy on the anchor leg.
The Irish team will take part in semi-final one at 1:40am Saturday morning. They will face Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Poland, China and Jamaica.
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Representing Ireland in the Women's 4x100m at the World Championships
Joan Healy➡️Adeyemi Talabi➡️Lauren Roy➡️Sarah Leahy
⏰(Sat) 1:40am Irish time - Heat 1
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ℹ️Start list:https://t.co/q8jrNETG9x pic.twitter.com/Fc1TvME0P9— Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) July 22, 2022
Having just completed her first year at the University of Texas Arlington. Talabi has shown great form this track season including running 11.44 seconds in May for a 100m personal best.
This is the seventh fastest ever time by an Irish woman and ranks 19-year-old Talabi second in the 2022 standings.
Talabi now follows Ray Flynn as the next Longford athlete to compete in the World championships. Flynn competed at the first world championship in 1983.
