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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
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Darragh Culhane

Ireland 4x400m women's team finish sixth in European final

The Ireland women's 4x400m team finished sixth in their European final on Saturday evening.

The team of four consists of Sharlene Mawdsley, Sophie Becker, Phil Healy and Rhasidat Adeleke.

It was a memorable Championships for the team as they smashed the Irish record in their semi-final and with Irish 400m record holder Rhasidat Adeleke in the team they had serious medal hopes.

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And although it wasn't to be, it was a strong run for the quartet as they ran a time of 3:26.63 and were just 0.6 of a second off their national record.

Sophie Becker went out first and was fifth in the handover to Phil Healy.

Healy was unable to keep pace with the breakaway group of Poland, Netherlands, Great Britain and Belgium and handed over in seventh to Rhasidat Adeleke.

And the Irish record holder gained ground and handed over to Mawdsley in fifth place and ultimately she finished sixth behind Germany.

The Netherlands would go onto win gold with Poland in second and Great Britain in third.

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