 Sharlene Mawdsley in 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Irish | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 August 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 400 metres | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sharlene Mawdsley (born 10 August 1998) is an Irish athlete who specialises in the 400 meters and other sprint events. [2]
Mawdsley is from Newport, County Tipperary where she attended St. Mary's school. [3]
She is a graduate of sociology from the University of Limerick. [4] [5]
Mawdsley started competing in athletics as a child. Early in her career, she competed primarily in the 200 m and also in the 100 m. She started focusing on the 400 m in 2019.
Mawdsley competed in the 400 m at the 2021 European Indoor Championships in March and did not advance past the heats. [6]
In May, at the 2021 World Relays, she helped the Irish team finish seventh in the mixed 4×400 m relay.
Mawdsley competed at the 2022 World Championships in July, helping the Irish team finish eighth in the mixed 4×400 m relay.
In August, she competed at the 2022 European Championships. She did not advance past the heats in the 400 m. In the 4×400 m relay, she helped Ireland finish sixth.
Mawdsley competed at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in March. In the 400 m, she advanced to the semifinals. She helped the Irish team finish fifth in the 4×400 m relay.
In August, she competed in the 2023 World Championships 400 m semifinals [7] [8] and finals of both the women's and mixed 4×400 m relays, running six races in total over nine days. [9] [10] [11] [12] She helped Ireland finish eighth in the mixed 4×400 relay and sixth in the 4×400 m relay.
Mawdsley competed at the 2024 World Indoor Championships in March. In the 400 m, she initially advanced to the final on merit before being disqualified for obstruction in the semifinals. [13] [14] She then helped the Irish team finish fifth in the 4×400 m relay. [15] [16]
In May, at the 2024 World Relays, Mawdsley helped Ireland win the bronze medal in the mixed 4×400 m relay. It was her first major international medal.
Mawdsley competed at the 2024 European Championships in June. She helped the Irish team win the gold medal in the mixed 4×400 m relay. Running the final leg, she received the baton from teammate Thomas Barr in second place. Mawdsley then passed the leading Belgian Helena Ponette in the home stretch, crossing the line first in an Irish record time of 3:09.92 with the second-fastest female split of the night at 49.40. [17] Mawdsley finished eighth in the 400 m. In the 4×400 m relay, she helped Ireland win the silver medal. [18]
On the 9th of September 2024, Mawdsley ended her season with a victory in the 400m at the Gala dei Castelli meeting in Bellinzona, Switzerland. Clocking a time of 51.35, she finished ahead of Susanne Gogl-Walli with 51.39 and Lieke Klaver with 51.42. [19]
The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and race in separate lanes for the entire course. In many countries, athletes previously competed in the 440-yard dash (402.336 m)—which is a quarter of a mile and was referred to as the "quarter-mile"—instead of the 400 m (437.445 yards), though this distance is now obsolete.
The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap, totaling 1600 meters. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. The first leg and the first bend of the second leg are run in lanes. Start lines are thus staggered over a greater distance than in an individual 400 metres race; the runners then typically move to the inside of the track. The slightly longer 4 × 440 yards relay, on an Imperial distance, was a formerly run British Commonwealth and American event, until metrication was completed in the 1970s.
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European Athletics Championships champions in mixed 4 × 400 metres relay | |
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