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Irish Examiner
8 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
New Irish 4x100m relay record set by Farrelly, Akinola, Lawlor and Olatunde
Michael Farrelly, Bori Akinola, Marcus Lawlor and Israel Olatunde have set a new Irish 4x100m relay record in a time of 38.92 seconds. The quartet finished in second place at the World Continental Tour Meet in Switzerland on Saturday. The previous national record of 39.26s was set by John McAdorey, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns and Paul Brizzel at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Comyns took to X to congratulate the squad on breaking the record.

The 42
9 hours ago
- Sport
- The 42
Irish men's 4x100m relay team break longstanding national record
THE NATIONAL RECORD for the men's 4x100m relay has been broken. Michael Farrelly, Bori Akinola, Marcus Lawlor and Israel Olatunde set the new record of 38.92 seconds at the World Continental Tour Meet in Switzerland to take second. Advertisement Their brilliant performance eclipsed a record that has stood for 25 years. John McAdorey, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns and Paul Brizzel ran a time of 39.26 at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Elsewhere, Sarah Lavin finished in second place in the final of the women's 100m hurdles at the 2025 Motonet GP Kuortanein on the World Continental Tour in Finland. Lavin clocked a time of 12.99 to come in behind Nooralotta Neziri of Finland who crossed the line in 12.85.


RTÉ News
11 hours ago
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Michael Farrelly, Bori Akinola, Marcus Lawlor and Israel Olatunde set new Irish record in 4x100m relay
A new national record has been set in the men's 4x100m relay. The relay team, consisting of Michael Farrelly, Bori Akinola, Marcus Lawlor and Israel Olatunde set the record in a time of 38.92 seconds while finishing second at the World Continental Tour Meet in Switzerland on Saturday. The previous record of 39.26 was set by John McAdorey, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns and Paul Brizzel at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000. Previous relay recorder hold Tom Comyns took to X to congratulate the team. Congrats to the Irish 4x100m relay team who broke our 25 national record today. Delighted to see the record broken. Well done to Michael Farrelly, Bori Akinola, Marcus Lawler, Israel Olatunde. Below picture of team from 2000. @irishathletics — Tommy Comyns PhD, OLY (@comyns_tommy) June 21, 2025