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Athlete Sarah Lavin during the Team Ireland Paris 2024 team announcement for Athletics | PICTURE: Sportsfile
LIMERICK'S Sarah Lavin will bid for an Olympic medal at this year's Paris games which was opened yesterday afternoon in the French capital. Lavin is the only Treaty athlete in this year's Olympics.
The Emerald AC Athlete, who is coached by Noelle Morrissey, will compete in the 100m hurdles at the Paris Olympics. Lavin will get her Olympic journey underway on Wednesday, August 7 when the first round of the women's 100m hurdles gets started at 9:15am.
The repechage round of the 100m hurdles takes place the next day on August 8 at 9:35am with Lavin aiming for the semi-final of the hurdles on Friday, August 9 at 11:05am.
In an event where medals are decided by 100ths of a second she has come agonisingly close to other podiums; fourth at the 2019 World Student Games, fifth at the 2022 Europeans, and twice a World semi-finalist.
The nine-time Irish champion was in terrific form ahead of this year’s Europeans but uncharacteristically clipped a hurdle to finish seventh, yet bounced back by running a season’s best of 12:66 a week later.
Lavin will have to be close to her all time best of 12.62, which she set in August 2023, to be close to gaining a medal at the Olympics.
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