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24-03-2025
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Olympians Rowden and Fontes join Belfast entries
Britain's Daniel Rowden and Spanish athlete Ignacio Fontes are the latest Olympians to join the entries for the Belfast Irish Milers Meet on 10 May. Rowden, 27, will compete over an 800m distance where he set his personal best of 1 minute 43.95 seconds in 2023. The Woodford Green athlete won the UK 800m title in 2020 and 2023 and was an Olympic semi-finalist in Tokyo in 2021 in addition to representing Great Britain at two World Championships and two European Championships. Rowden will be joined in the 800m field by two-time Olympian Fontes, who finished 13th in the 1500m final at the Tokyo Games in 2021. The men's 800m field already includes Rowden's fellow British internationals Callum Dodds and Tom Randolph. Dodds broke one minute and 45 seconds for the first time to clinch victory at last year's meeting in a track record of 1:44.79 which propelled him towards selection for the European Championships, as second-placed Randolph who also went under 1:45. "The men's 800m is looking to be an absolutely fantastic race and it's great to have athletes of such high calibre on the start line," said meet director Eamonn Christie. The Belfast meeting will be headlined by St Albans athlete Phoebe Gill who returns to the Mary Peters Track event after smashing the 45-year-old European Under-18 800m record when clocking 1:57.86 which cut almost four seconds off her personal best as she clinched a remarkable victory. Gill, who went on to reach the Olympic 800m semi-finals in Paris after winning the UK title, will be competing over 1500m in Belfast. Other big names at the Belfast meeting will include Ireland's 400m star Sharlene Mawdsley and Great Britain's double Paris Olympics relay medallist Sam Reardon. Tipperary woman Mawdsley anchored her country to a dramatic mixed 4x400m relay gold at last year's European Championships and also won silver in the women's 4x400m at the Rome championships. Reardon, 21, was part of Great Britain's quartet that clinched third place in the mixed 4x400m relay final in Paris and also helped his country secure bronze in the men's 4x400m relay at the Games.
BBC News
24-03-2025
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Olympians Rowden and Fontes join Belfast entries
Britain's Daniel Rowden and Spanish athlete Ignacio Fontes are the latest Olympians to join the entries for the Belfast Irish Milers Meet on 10 27, will compete over an 800m distance where he set his personal best of 1 minute 43.95 seconds in Woodford Green athlete won the UK 800m title in 2020 and 2023 and was an Olympic semi-finalist in Tokyo in 2021 in addition to representing Great Britain at two World Championships and two European will be joined in the 800m field by two-time Olympian Fontes, who finished 13th in the 1500m final at the Tokyo Games in men's 800m field already includes Rowden's fellow British internationals Callum Dodds and Tom broke one minute and 45 seconds for the first time to clinch victory at last year's meeting in a track record of 1:44.79 which propelled him towards selection for the European Championships, as second-placed Randolph who also went under 1:45."The men's 800m is looking to be an absolutely fantastic race and it's great to have athletes of such high calibre on the start line," said meet director Eamonn Christie. Gill to headline Belfast meeting The Belfast meeting will be headlined by St Albans athlete Phoebe Gill who returns to the Mary Peters Track event after smashing the 45-year-old European Under-18 800m record when clocking 1:57.86 which cut almost four seconds off her personal best as she clinched a remarkable victory. Gill, who went on to reach the Olympic 800m semi-finals in Paris after winning the UK title, will be competing over 1500m in big names at the Belfast meeting will include Ireland's 400m star Sharlene Mawdsley and Great Britain's double Paris Olympics relay medallist Sam woman Mawdsley anchored her country to a dramatic mixed 4x400m relay gold at last year's European Championships and also won silver in the women's 4x400m at the Rome 21, was part of Great Britain's quartet that clinched third place in the mixed 4x400m relay final in Paris and also helped his country secure bronze in the men's 4x400m relay at the Games.
BBC News
27-02-2025
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Double Olympic medallist Reardon to run in Belfast
Great Britain's double Olympic relay medallist Sam Reardon has joined an already strong entry list for the Belfast Irish Milers Meet on 10 May. His fellow Great Britain Olympic team-mate Phoebe Gill will lead the entries for the World Athletics Continental Tour meeting after her stunning performance at the Belfast event last summer. Reardon, 21, was part of Great Britain's quartet that clinched third place in the mixed 4x400m relay final at last year's Paris Olympics and also helped his country secure bronze in the men's 4x400m relay at the Londoner, who runs for the Blackheath & Bromley club, was a late call-up to the GB Olympic relay squads after smashing his 400m personal best when clocking 44.70 seconds at the London Diamond League meeting a week before the performance cut 1.29 seconds off his previous fastest 400m produced at the Morton Games in Dublin earlier in July. Reardon was fifth in the 800m final at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships in Colombia and has a 1:45.95 personal best for the longer distance but after combining the two events, opted to concentrate on the 400m last season. His opponents at the Mary Peters Track will include Ireland internationals Jack Raftery, Callum Baird and Sean Doggett while event director Eamonn Christie is also holding out hope that recent national indoor champion Conor Kelly could be a late addition to the 400m field."It's great that an athlete of Sam's calibre, a double Olympic medallist, is keen to run at my meet and he knows full well he'll be coming to a track and a meet where fast times have been run in recent years," said Christie. Gill, then aged 17, smashed the 45-year-old European Under-18 800m record at the Belfast meeting last May by clocking one minute 57.86 to cut almost four seconds off her personal Belfast victory started a run of remarkable performances by the St Albans athlete who won the 800m title at the British Championships and went on to reach the Olympic plans to race over 1500m at this year's Belfast meeting and her metric mile opposition will include other young British talents Innes FitzGerald and Ava big-name Irish athletes to have already signed up for the meeting include European mixed 4x400m gold medallist Sharlene Mawdsley. Last year's Belfast meeting was held in sweltering conditions and also produced a superb men's 800m as Great Britain's Callum Dodds broke one minute and 45 seconds for the first time to clinch victory in a track record of 1:44.79, which propelled him towards selection for the European will return to the Mary Peters Track where his 800m opponents will again include last year's runner-up, compatriot Tom Randolph who also went under 1:45 and another Briton Tiarnan Crorken, who clocked 1:45.60 when placing fourth nine months ago.
BBC News
27-01-2025
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Gill to return to Belfast after stunning 2024 win
Paris Olympian Phoebe Gill will return to this year's Belfast Irish Milers Meet after her record-breaking 800m performance at the meeting last then aged 17, smashed the 45-year-old European Under-18 800m record by clocking one minute 57.86 which cut almost four seconds off her previous personal Belfast victory started a run of remarkable performances by the St Albans athlete as she won the 800m at the British Championships and went on to reach the Olympic semi-finals in Paris. BBC Sport NI website's report of Gill's Belfast victory generated over 580,000 page plans to race over 1500m at this year's Belfast meeting which will take place at the Mary Peters Track on 10 Hertfordshire athlete's 1500m opponents will include Great Britain's double European Junior Cross Country champion Innes FitzGerald and another hugely talented English youngster Ava Lloyd who finished fifth over the distance at last year's World Under-20 Championships in athlete Erin Wallace finished second behind Gill in Belfast last year after clocking 2:00.23 and will aim to go one better in an 800m field which will include four-time Czech champion Kimberley Ficenec, who has a 2:00.68 personal best. Last year's Belfast meeting held in sweltering conditions also produced a superb men's 800m as Great Britain's Callum Dodds went under one minute and 45 seconds for the first time in clinching victory in a track record of 1:44.79 which propelled him towards selection for the European will return to the Mary Peters Track where his 800m opponents will again include compatriot Tom Randolph who also went under the 1:45 mark when finishing second last 400m star Sharlene Mawdsley, who anchored her country to a dramatic mixed 4x400m relay gold at last year's European Championships and won silver in the women's 4x400m in Rome, has also signed up for the Belfast meeting. Mawdsley's opponents will include Great Britain's Isabelle Boffey, who has won 800m European U18, U20 and U23 titles, but will move down in distance to race the Irish Paris Olympian, who won the 400m at the Belfast meeting in director Eamonn Christie opened entries for the meeting on 19 January and they were totally filled within 15 minutes to emphasise the status of an event which again will have World Athletics Continental Tour status."Once again I'm overwhelmed at how quickly the event sold out," said Christie."I'm delighted at the calibre of athletes who have entered, including international, national and local athletes. To date we have entries from Spain, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic as well as Ireland and Great Britain."
