{"id":37934,"date":"2025-09-02T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37934\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:07:09","slug":"three-more-added-to-irelands-final-squad-for-world-athletics-championships-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37934\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more added to Ireland\u2019s final squad for World Athletics Championships \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three more athletes have been added to Ireland\u2019s squad for this month\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-athletics-championships\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-athletics-championships\/\">World Championships<\/a> in Toyko, bringing the total number to 28, the largest team the country has sent to the championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bandon AC\u2019s Laura Nicholson will compete in the 1500m, Efrem Gidey in 10,000m, and Bantry\u2019s Darragh McElhinney (5000m) have been included in the final selection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sophie Becker, already listed for both the mixed and women\u2019s 4x400m relay, has been added to the individual 400m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Among those already selected were Paris Olympians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sarah-healy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sarah-healy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Healy<\/a> (1,500m), Kate O\u2019Connor (heptathlon), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mark-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mark-english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark English<\/a> (800m), Nicola Tuthill (hammer), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sharlene-mawdsley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sharlene-mawdsley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharlene Mawdsley<\/a> (women\u2019s 400m, mixed 4x400m relay and women\u2019s 4x400m relay).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rhasidat Adeleke will not take part after she made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/athletics\/2025\/08\/18\/rhasidat-adeleke-to-miss-world-athletics-championships-due-to-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/athletics\/2025\/08\/18\/rhasidat-adeleke-to-miss-world-athletics-championships-due-to-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\">decision to end her season a few week<\/a>s ago.<\/p>\n<p>Irish team for World Athletics Championships:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sarah Healy (Women\u2019s 1500m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Laura Nicholson (Women\u2019s 1500m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mark English (Men\u2019s 800m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sarah Lavin (Women\u2019s 100m Hurdles)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sophie O\u2019Sullivan (Women\u2019s 1500m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Laura Nicholson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sharlene Mawdsley (Women\u2019s 400m, Mixed 4x400m Relay &amp; Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cathal Doyle (Men\u2019s 1500m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cian McPhillips (Men\u2019s 800m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Andrew Coscoran (Men\u2019s 1,500m &amp; 5,000m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kate O\u2019Connor (Women\u2019s Heptathlon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Nicola Tuthill (Women\u2019s Hammer Throw)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Brian Fay (Men\u2019s 5,000m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Darragh McElhinney (Men\u2019s 5,000m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Efrem Gidey (Men\u2019s 10,000m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">David Kenny (Men\u2019s 20km Race Walk)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Oisin Lane (Men\u2019s 35km Race Walk)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Eric Favors (Men\u2019s Shot Put)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fionnuala McCormack (Women\u2019s Marathon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Hiko Tonosa (Men\u2019s Marathon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Peter Lynch (Men\u2019s Marathon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sophie Becker (Women\u2019s 400m, Mixed 4x400m Relay &amp; Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rachel McCann (Mixed 4x400m Relay &amp; Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Jack Raftery (Mixed 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Conor Kelly (ixed 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cill\u00edn Greene (Mixed 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cliodhna Manning (Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Michelle Duggan (Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Jenna Breen (Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">*Erin Friel (Women\u2019s 4x400m Relay \u2013 Non travelling reserve)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">*Ciaran Carthy (Mixed 4x400m Relay \u2013 Non travelling reserve)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three more athletes have been added to Ireland\u2019s squad for this month\u2019s World Championships in Toyko, bringing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[29290,18,19,17,10884,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-37934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-efrem-gidey","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sophie-becker","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37934","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=37934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}