Lavin sets PB at World Indoors

Emerald ACโ€™s Sarah Lavin. Photo: Sam Barnes.

FROM an Irish perspective, Limerickโ€™s Sarah Lavin (Emerald AC) lit-up the World Indoor Championships with a superb fifth-place finish in the 60m Hurdles Final.

In the final in Glasgow, she clocked a time of 7.91, a mere one hundredth of a second off her personal best managed in an earlier heat victory.

โ€œTo finish 5th in the world is amazing and to do it in final where the world record was broken too,โ€ Lavin remarked after the race in an interview with Athletics Ireland.

โ€œ7.79 won bronze today, and thatโ€™s never been required before to win a medal so it just shows where the standard is going.โ€

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Devynne Charlton of the Bahamas claimed gold in 7.65.

Thereโ€™s plenty of adventure still for Lavin this Summer. โ€œWeโ€™ve a Europeans in June which I want to be really competitive at, but the Olympics is everything, it’s the biggest stage in the world. Paris will be sensational so Iโ€™m really looking forward to whatโ€™s to come,โ€ said the 29-year-old.

She added: โ€œI just really want a major medalโ€ฆIโ€™m getting closer and closer.โ€

Lavinโ€™s clubmate, Rรณisรญn Harrison, was a member of the Ireland team which set a new national record (3:28:45) in qualifying for the 4x100m Relay Final.

Harrison took the third leg of this stand-out performance.

In the final, the Ireland quartet finished a most creditable fifth.