World silver medallist Kate O’Connor and Irish nationwide champion Nick Griggs have been named in Eire’s crew for the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland.
O’Connor gained Eire’s first medal on the championships since 2006 in Nanjing final yr when she completed second within the pentathlon.
The 25-year-old then adopted that up with a shocking second-place end within the heptathlon on the World Championships in Tokyo in September.
In a historic yr, O’Connor gained a gold medal on the College Video games and claimed bronze on the European Indoor Championships.
Nick Griggs, who gained the Irish senior title earlier in March, will race within the 15-strong 3,000m remaining alongside Andrew Coscoran.
5-time European medallist Mark English can be a number one identify for the Irish crew when he races within the 800m on the occasion in Torun, which runs from 20-22 March.
Paul McNamara, Athletics Eire’s excessive efficiency director, stated it was “an thrilling crew with actual prospects for medal success”.
“Kate’s achievement in Nanjing final yr has set a bar for what Irish athletes can obtain at these championships, and we journey to Poland with actual intent,” he stated.
“Together with our seasoned performers it is nice to see rising expertise make an affect this season and earn the chance to compete in opposition to the most effective on the planet.”
Sarah Lavin will enter the Girls’s 60m hurdles, whereas Bori Akinola and Lauren Roy will race within the males’s and girls’s 60m respectively.
Maeve O’Neill will make her senior Irish worldwide debut in Poland within the girls’s 800m, whereas Ciara Neville (Girls’s 60m), Emma Moore (Girls’s 800m), James Gormley (Males’s 1500m) and Elizabeth Ndudi (Girls’s Lengthy Leap) have achieved the ‘B’ Commonplace and are provisionally chosen pending affirmation of their qualification standing by World Athletics.
