decision to end her season last week<\/a>, citing lingering injuries and continuous setbacks, her absence opened up another spot in the relay squads. Sophie Becker and Rachel McCann have been selected for the mixed 4x400m and the women\u2019s 4×400, with Jack Raftery, Conor Kelly and Cill\u00edn Greene named for the mixed 4x400m.<\/p>\nCliodhna Manning, Michelle Duggan and Jenna Breen have also been named in the women\u2019s 4x400m, while the are two non-travelling reserves: Erin Friel in the women\u2019s 4x400m and Ciaran Carthy in the mixed 4x400m.<\/p>\n
English and Cian McPhillips (800m), Cathal Doyle and Andrew Coscoran (1,500m), Mawdsley (400m), Healy and Sophie O\u2019Sullivan (1,500m), and Sarah Lavin (100m hurdles) were all ensured of their selection on automatic standards. However, O\u2019Sullivan has been recovering from a stress reaction in her leg and there are some doubts about her race fitness.<\/p>\n
Fionnuala McCormack, Hiko Tonosa and Peter Lynch were already preselected for the marathon, and both the mixed 4x400m and women\u2019s 4x400m relay squads earned their automatic qualifying spots at the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China at the start of May.<\/p>\n
The six Irish athletes within their event quota when the Road to Tokyo rankings closed on Sunday night were O\u2019Connor (heptathlon), Tuthill (hammer), Brian Fay (5,000m), Eric Favors (shot put), David Kenny (20km walk) and Oisin Lane (35km walk).<\/p>\n
While Coscoran was also inside the qualifying quota for the 5,000m, Darragh McElhinney was just one place short \u2013 43rd of the 42-athlete quota \u2013 meaning he\u2019ll need one athlete ahead of him to drop out, a likely scenario over the coming days.<\/p>\n
Also provisionally selected were Efrem Gidey (men\u2019s 10,000m), Nick Griggs (men\u2019s 1,500m & 5,000m), Laura Nicholson (women\u2019s 1,500m), Becker (women\u2019s 400m) Raftery (men\u2019s 400m) Alex O\u2019Neill (women\u2019s 800m) and Jenna Bromell (women\u2019s 800m), although they\u2019re some way down the rankings and less likely to gain a place.<\/p>\n
Irish team for World Athletics Championships:<\/p>\n
Sarah Healy (Women\u2019s 1500m)<\/p>\n
Mark English (Men\u2019s 800m)<\/p>\n
Sarah Lavin (Women\u2019s 100m Hurdles)<\/p>\n
Sophie O\u2019Sullivan (Women\u2019s 1500m)<\/p>\n
Sharlene Mawdsley (Women\u2019s 400m, Mixed 4x400m Relay & Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n
Cathal Doyle (Men\u2019s 1500m)<\/p>\n
Cian McPhillips (Men\u2019s 800m)<\/p>\n
Andrew Coscoran (Men\u2019s 1,500m & 5,000m)<\/p>\n
Kate O\u2019Connor (Women\u2019s Heptathlon)<\/p>\n
Nicola Tuthill (Women\u2019s Hammer Throw)<\/p>\n
Brian Fay (Men\u2019s 5,000m)<\/p>\n
David Kenny (Men\u2019s 20km Race Walk)<\/p>\n
Oisin Lane (Men\u2019s 35km Race Walk)<\/p>\n
Eric Favors (Men\u2019s Shot Put)<\/p>\n
Fionnuala McCormack (Women\u2019s Marathon)<\/p>\n
Hiko Tonosa (Men\u2019s Marathon)<\/p>\n
Peter Lynch (Men\u2019s Marathon)<\/p>\n
Sophie Becker (Mixed 4x400m Relay & Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n
Rachel McCann (Mixed 4x400m Relay & Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n
Jack Raftery (Mixed 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n
Conor Kelly (ixed 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n
Cill\u00edn Greene (Mixed 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n
Cliodhna Manning (Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n
Michelle Duggan (Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n
Jenna Breen (Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n
*Erin Friel (Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay \u2013 Non travelling reserve)<\/p>\n
*Ciaran Carthy (Mixed 4x400m Relay \u2013 Non travelling reserve)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletics Ireland have announced a team of 25 athletes for next month\u2019s World Championships in Tokyo with another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4890,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,10889,11,12,15,16,10888,5,22333,10886,10883,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-27548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-athletics-ireland","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-kate-o-connor","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-mark-english","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nicola-tuthill","25":"tag-sarah-healy","26":"tag-sharlene-mawdsley","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}