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Limerick woman Sarah Lavin, of Ireland, on the way to winning her heat of the women's 60m hurdles at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, on Thursday evening
LIMERICK sprint hurdler produced her best performance of the season to impressively advance to Friday's semi-finals of the women's 60m hurdles at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in the Netherlands.
Lisnagry double Olympian Lavin produced a top class performance to win her first run heat in Apeldoorn in a season's best time of 7.93 to advance to Friday's semi-finals.
A brilliant run from Sarah Lavin! She wins her women’s 60m hurdles heat to make tomorrow's final, beating European No 1 Laeticia Bapte #RTEsport pic.twitter.com/WpnnyAAwMn
— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) March 6, 2025
Those semi-finals take place at 12.45pm on Friday.
Thirty year-old Sarah Lavin is a member of Emerald AC and is coached by Noelle Morrissey.
Lavin powered home to win her seventh 123.ie National Indoor title in the women's 60m hurdles, last month.
Team Ireland's joint flagbearer at last summer's Paris 2024 Olympics Lavin eased through her 60m hurdles heat at the 123.ie National Indoor Indoors at the National Sports Campus last month in 8.11 seconds before the Limerick woman set an identical time in the final to claim victory ahead of Molly Scott by 0.23 seconds.
Lavin claimed a sixth place finish in the final of the 60m hurdles at the European Indoor Athletics Championship in Turkey in 2023.
An elated Sarah Lavin speaks to @DavidGillick after her super 60m hurdles heat victory at the European Indoors #RTEsport pic.twitter.com/hefmrYRylZ
— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) March 6, 2025
The Limerick woman clocked a time of 8.03 after a slow start in that final in Istanbul. The European title was won by Finland's Reetta Hurske who clocked a national record of 7.79.
Lavin recorded an excellent fifth place finish in the final of the 60m hurdles at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow 12 months ago.
The ultra consistent sprint hurdler clocked 7.91 seconds in the final, just .01 of a second outside her personal best which she had set in the semi-finals.
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