Rhasidat AdelekeAge: 21Event: 400m/girls’s and combined 4x400m relayClub: Tallaght ACFirst GamesControversially left off the combined relay group for the delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo, Adeleke has seen her star standing merely soar ever since. After slicing short her eligibility on the University of Texas final 12 months to race professionally, weeks after successful the NCAA 400m title in an Irish report of 49.20, she completed fourth on the 2023 World Championships. Her 2024 season has gone higher again, Adeleke successful three medals finally month’s European Championships in Rome, her 400m silver clocked in one other Irish report of 49.07. She then received the Irish 100m title in one other national report of 11.13 (her 52nd to date, giving her the entire set of dash information throughout all ages). Signed off for Paris will a beautiful win on the Monaco Diamond League, clocking 49.17 seconds, her second quickest time ever.Ciara MageeanCiara Mageean. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Age: 32Event: 1,500mClub: City of Lisburn ACThird Games (2016, 2020)Cruelly injured a week earlier than competing in Tokyo, the ever-resilient Down athlete bounced proper back in 2022 when successful 1,500m silver on the European Championships and Commonwealth Games, earlier than successful a magnificent gold in Rome final month, finishing the total set of European medals, solely our second ever particular person gold medal winner after Sonia O’Sullivan. Took back the Irish 800m report this 12 months, working 1:58.51, after enhancing her own Irish 1,500m report to three:55.87 final summer time. Mageean additionally completed fourth finally 12 months’s World Championships in Budapest, and arrives in Paris with enough expertise and confidence to put herself within the medal combine as soon as again.Mark EnglishMark English. Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Age: 31Event: 800mClub: Finn Valley ACThird Games (2016, 2020)A four-time European 800m medal winner, twice indoor and twice outside, English has timed his Paris run to perfection, enhancing his own Irish 800m report twice inside 4 days final month, taking it down to 1:44.53 in Madrid, twice inside the Olympic qualifying time in addition. Coached by Feidhlim Kelly on the Dublin Track Club, the Donegal athlete and physician took one other break from his medical profession to maximise his Olympic possibilities, underlining his type when successful a ninth Irish 800m title final month, to sit down together with his 9 indoors. Vastly skilled and quietly assured, he’ll go in an 800m occasion that guarantees to be one of probably the most aggressive in Paris. His current 400m finest of 46.19 is a good show of his readiness.Andrew CoscoranAndrew Coscoran. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Age: 28Event: 1,500mClub: Star of the Sea ACSecond Games (2020)From Balbriggan in north county Dublin, Coscoran delivered on his promise final 12 months when breaking each the national outside and indoor information over 1,500m. The outside mark had belonged to Ray Flynn since 1982, and Coscoran beat it with a actually world-class 3:30.42. His season finest of 3:32.68 is a little off that, however he made the ultimate on the European Championships in Rome final month. Also coached by Feidhlim Kelly, he final received the Irish 1,500m title in 2021, lacking this 12 months by means of sickness. With the expertise of the final two World Championships, he is aware of what’s required to make the ultimate is what may also be one of probably the most aggressive races in Paris.Sharlene MawdsleySharlene Mawdsley. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Age: 25Event: 400m/girls’s and combined 4x400m relayClub: Newport ACFirst GamesUnquestionably amongst Ireland’s most improved athletes of current years, Mawdsley was one other to overlook out on the combined relay choice for Tokyo. Undeterred, she ran 51.70 seconds later that summer time, underlining her potential after briefly drifting away from the game whereas attending the University of Limerick. Since then, she’s been coached by two-time Olympian Gary Ryan, additionally a Tipperary native, who put her on a path of regular progress. After anchoring each the combined and girls’s 4x400m relay within the last of final 12 months’s World Championships, she did likewise in Rome final month, successful gold and then silver. After enhancing her finest to 50.72 in May in Chorzow, Poland, she additionally earned her particular person Paris berth.Sarah LavinSarah Lavin. Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Age: 30Event: 100m hurdlesClub: Emerald ACSecond Games (2020)Now a mannequin of consistency after overcoming a few years of sickness and damage, the Limerick sprinter achieved a uncommon double final summer time when first taking down Derval O’Rourke’s 13-12 months-outdated Irish 100m hurdles report, clocking 12.62 in her semi-last of the World Championships in Budapest, earlier than enhancing the 100m flat report to 11.27. Rhasidat Adekele took that report when beating her to the National title final month, however Lavin had earlier added her ninth hurdles title, having received six more indoors. A finalist on the European Championships in Rome final month, and the 2023 European Games bronze medallist, Lavin’s partnership together with her coach Noelle Morrissey has additionally seen her end fifth within the World Indoor 60m hurdles earlier this 12 months.Sarah HealySarah Healy. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Age: 23Event: 1,500mClub: UCD ACFirst GamesAfter a sensible junior profession that quick transitioned into senior stage, Healy gained contemporary ground again final summer time when breaking the sub-4 barrier for 1,500m, her 3:59.68 on the World Championships additionally qualifying her for Paris. Now based mostly in Leeds with coaches Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, within the group that incorporates Britain’s 800m gold medal hope Keely Hodgkinson, she moved down to 800m to win that national title final month. Per week later she improved her finest to three:57.46 for seventh place on the Paris Diamond League, transferring to second on the Irish all-time listing, forward of Sonia O’Sullivan, now solely behind Ciara Mageean.Brian FayBrian Fay. Photograph: Ben McShane/Sportsfile Age: 25Event: 5,000mClub: Raheny Shamrock ACFirst GamesA comparatively late developer after an underage profession that all the time held promise, Fay studied at DCU and later on the University of Washington in Seattle, the place his progress was instantly notable. Improved his 5,000m finest to 13:16.52 in 2022, and then ran a beautiful 13:01.40 final summer time, breaking the Irish report that had stood to Alistair Craig since 2011. Coached on the Dublin monitor membership by Feidhlim Kelly, he’s a true pupil of the game too and received a second successive National 5,000m title this summer time with a searing 53-second final lap, having additionally run an indoor mile of 3:52.03 final 12 months. Renowned for giving his all, he’ll relish the Olympic stage.Sophie O’SullivanSophie O’Sullivan. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho Age: 22Event: 1,500mClub: Ballymore Cobh ACFirst GamesMakes Irish athletics historical past in Paris by following within the footsteps of her mom Sonia, a four-time Olympian and 5,000m silver medallist from Sydney 2000, solely the third mom-and-daughter to compete in Olympic athletics historical past. Raised in Melbourne, she first confirmed her potential when successful 800m silver on the 2018 European Under-18 Championships (behind Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson, the favorite for gold in Paris), and final summer time received the Under-23 1,500m title. Has spent the final 4 years on the University of Washington in Seattle, coached by Maurica Powell, making two NCAA 1,500m finals, her 4:02.15 on the 2023 World Championships in Budapest inside the automated commonplace for Paris. Claimed her first senior 1,500m title in June, signing off for Paris with a season finest of 4:05.77 on the Morton Games, then working 2:00.28 for 800m in Italy, sooner than her mom.Sophie BeckerSophie Becker. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho Age: 27Event: 400m/girls’s and combined 4x400m relayClub: Raheny Shamrocks ACSecond Games (2020)Ireland has three girls within the 400m for the primary time in Olympic historical past, with of them being this Wexford athlete, who can be making her first particular person look, having been half of the combined relay group that made the ultimate in Tokyo. She certified in forty sixth from the 48-athlete occasion quota, after enhancing her finest from 51.83 seconds to 51.13 in May. Coached by Jeremy Lyons and Gerard O’Donnell, she additionally boasts the expertise of two World Championship finals within the combined relay, and in June ran the opening leg of the ladies’s 4x400m that received silver on the European Championships in Rome, the place she simply missed the person last.Cathal DoyleCathal Doyle. Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Age: 26Event: 1,500mClub: Clonliffe HarriersFirst GamesFirst joined Clonliffe as a 13-12 months-outdated, born in close by Swords, Doyle has made regular progress within the 13 years since. This 12 months he has made specifically thrilling leaps, enhancing his finest from 3:36.85 to three:34:09. Also qualifying by way of the occasion quota (41 of 44), final month he received a third successive national 1,500m title, to sit down together with his one from indoors (the place he dived over the road forward of Nick Griggs). Spent a couple of years working for the University of Portland, having graduated from DCU, and signed off brilliantly for Paris by successful the Morton Mile on his home monitor in a scorching 3:52.06. Has developed a great knack of successful.Kate O’ConnorKate O’Connor. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Age: 23Event: HeptathlonClub: Dundalk St Gerald’s ACFirst GamesBorn in Newry and raised in Dundalk, O’Connor first took to the seven-occasion self-discipline at college at St Gerard’s in Dundalk, coached by her father Michael, and in 2019 she received the primary worldwide medal for Ireland within the heptathlon, nailing silver on the European Under-20 Championships in Boras, Sweden. After setting a national report of 6,297 factors in 2021, in 2022 she received a Commonwealth silver medal, crushed by the defending champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson offrom England. Finished in thirteenth finally 12 months’s World Championships, scored 6,244 factors in Germany final month, and certified in twenty third of the one 24 locations for Paris.Nicola TuthillNicola Tuthill. Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Age: 20Event: HammerClub: UCD ACFirst GamesTuthill received her first senior hammer title in 2020 at age 16, already benefiting from the hammer-coaching cage her father Norman constructed on their household diary farm in Bandon. Won silver on the European Throwing Cup in March, then in June turned solely the second Irish lady to throw over 70m, after 2008 Olympian Eileen O’Keefe, together with her sensible 70.32m. Backed that up with an glorious ninth-place end on the European Championships in Rome, her first senior main worldwide. Coached by a mixture of Killian Barry, Kevin Warner and Roland Korom, she additionally completed fourth on the European Under-23 Championships final 12 months. Qualified for Paris ranked twenty ninth of the one 32 entries, together with her profession solely starting.Eric FavorsEric Favors. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images Age: 27Event: Shot putClub: Raheny Shamrocks ACFirst GamesA local of Rockland County, exterior New York City, Favours took up his Irish eligibility by way of his grandmother Margaret Kerr, from Ballina in Mayo, who lived in New York for more than 50 years. In high faculty he was coached by Dubliner Paddy McGrath, who competed within the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and Favors has now damaged the Irish shot put report a number of instances, enhancing it from 20.66m to twenty.93m in April of this 12 months. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, he received European Team Championships Division Three final 12 months, and in June received a third national senior title. Qualified for the final two World Athletics Championships, he made Paris ranked thirtieth of the 32 athletes who reached the occasion.Fionnuala McCormackFionnuala McCormack. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Age: 39Event: MarathonClub: Kilcoole ACFifth Games (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)Makes Irish Olympic historical past as the primary girls to compete in 5 Games, and in 4 completely different occasions: the three,000m steeplechase in Beijing 2008, the 5,000m and 10,000m in London 2012, then the marathon in Rio 2016 and the delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Back-to-back European cross nation champion in 2011-2012, she completed fourth in that occasion again final December, simply a week after working 2:26:19 in Valencia, inside the required 2:26:50 for Paris. That was additionally simply 5 months after giving delivery to her third daughter. The extremely constant Wicklow athlete now boasts 44 senior worldwide appearances, more than some other Irish lady. Ran her lifetime finest of 2:23.58 simply 4 months after Tokyo, and will relish one other shot on the traditional distance within the streets of Paris.Jodie McCannJodie McCann. Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Age: 24Event: 5,000mClub: Dublin City HarriersFirst GamesAfter a promising younger profession that started at age 9, successful a sequence of Irish underage cross-nation titles, McCann’s working then took a back seat to her educating research in Dublin, earlier than a courageous transfer to Australia over the winter. There she joined the On Athletics Club Oceania, and that paid big dividend. Guided by Australian Olympian Craig Mottram, McCann smashed her finest instances over the 1,500m, mile and 3,000m. Then, in June, she improved her 2023 finest of 16:18.23 for five,000m to fifteen:20.93. She additionally certified for the European Championships in Rome, her first senior monitor look. She continues to be coached by her father Clark, a former worldwide swimmer. She made Paris ranked thirty ninth of the 42-athlete quota in her occasion – becoming a member of older brother Luke, who certified within the 1,500mLuke McCannLuke McCann. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Age: 26Event: 1,500mClub: UCD ACFirst GamesBy his own admission a late bloomer. McCann had dabbled in cross-nation working in Blackrock College, briefly flirting with rugby too, and began his engineering degree in UCD in September 2016 with a finest nicely exterior 4 minutes – for 1,500m. In 2021, he improved from 3:53.72 to three:36.81, then set his sights on the Paris Olympics. In 2022, he joined On Athletics Club Europe, based mostly within the Swiss Alps below former German national coach Thomas Dreissigacker, and final 12 months he certified for the World Championships in Budapest. A stress fracture in his sacrum in December threatened to finish his Paris dream, however McCann by no means gave up, working 3:33.60 in Stockholm in June, and he certified thirty fifth of the 45-athlete quota. With his sister Jodie, he’s half of solely the second Irish brother-and-sister set to qualify for the Olympics in athletics, after Thomas and Jessie Barr (2012).Thomas BarrThomas Barr. Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Age: 31Event: 4x400m Mixed RelayClub: Ferrybank ACThird Games (2016, 2020)Eight years after ending fourth within the 400m hurdles in Rio, the place he set a nonetheless-standing Irish report of 47.97 seconds, Barr fell simply .09 short of qualifying in that occasion for a third time, working 48.79 in June, earlier than lacking out on the rating quota by only one place. He nonetheless will get his shot with the combined relay, working a sensible third leg (with a 44.90-second cut up) when the Irish quartet struck gold on the European Championships in Rome in June. He was additionally half of the group that received bronze on the World Relays in May. Since successful bronze within the 400m hurdles on the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, he has been one of Ireland’s most constant performances on the worldwide stage, and one of the most well-liked too.Phil HealyPhil Healy. Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Age: 29Event: Women’s and Mixed 4x400m relayClub: Bandon ACSecond Games (Tokyo)Formerly Ireland’s quickest lady, Healy was on the verge of retirement final 12 months when the debilitating Hashimoto’s illness, a thyroid gland dysfunction, left her unable to coach or race to her full potential. Encouraged by long-time coach Shane McCormack, she slowly bounced back this 12 months, half of each the combined and girls’s 4x400m groups that certified for Paris on the World Relays within the Bahamas in May. Also half of the combined relay that made the ultimate in Tokyo, Healy then ran a sensible third leg with the ladies’s 4x400mn group that received silver on the European Championships in Rome in June, earlier than successful one other National 200m title in Santry, her seventeenth in all throughout a vary of dash distances, indoors and out. Also competed within the 200m and 400m in Tokyo, the primary Irish girls to compete in three Olympic occasions on the identical Games.Chris O’DonnellChris O’Donnell. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Age: 26Event: 4x400m Mixed RelayClub: North Sligo ACSecond Games (Tokyo 2020)Last month O’Donnell fell simply short of successful a sixth National 400m title in seven years, fading on the road, partially attributable to current sickness, simply as Jack Raftery powered previous, however will get one other Olympic shot after his mannequin of consistency with the combined relay, additionally half of the quartet that made the ultimate in Tokyo. A former underage soccer participant from the Sligo hamlet of Grange, he ran the opening leg of the gold medal successful combined relay group on the European Championships in Rome in June. Coached by Stewart Marshall at Loughborough University, his 400m finest of 45.26 is second solely to David Gillick on the Irish all-time listingJack RafteryJack Raftery. Photograph: Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Age: 23Event: 4x400m Mixed RelayClub: Donore HarriersFirst GamesWon his first National 400m indoor title in 2023, earlier than working his finest of 45.89 seconds to make the ultimate of the European Under-23 Championships final summer time. Already half of the combined relay quartet that made the ultimate of the final two World Athletics Championships, in 2022 and 2023, Raftery ensured his choice for Paris when successful the National senior outside title in June, working 45.95 seconds. Coached by Jeremy Lyons and Gerard O’Donnell, and finding out Mechanical Engineering at DCU, Raftery turns into the primary sprinter from Donore to symbolize the membership on the Olympics since 1956.Lauren CaddenIreland’s Lauren Cadden passes the baton to Sharlene Mawdsley during this 12 months’s European Championships. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Age: 24Event: Women’s and Mixed 4x400m relayClub: Sligo ACFirst GamesAfter a breakthrough win over 200m to win a first National senior title in 2022, Cadden has made big strides over the 400m this season, beginning with the Inter-varsity championships back in April, when she ran a championship report of 53.38 seconds, enhancing the mark that had stood to Karen Shinkins since 1999. With a degree in Health Science from Athlone TU, and coached in Sligo by Dermot McDermott, she then broke 53 seconds for the primary time, clocking 52.87 in Salamanca in June, earlier than working the heats with the ladies’s 4x400m relay that claimed silver on the European Championships in Rome. Was simply crushed into third within the 400m at this 12 months’s National Championships, behind Sophie Becker.Rachel McCannRachel McCann. Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Age: 22Event: Women’s and Mixed 4x400m relayClub: North Down ACFirst GamesAfter successful a number of Irish below-20 and below-23 titles within the 200m and 400m, working 55.54 seconds back in 2019 and additionally exhibiting early promise within the long soar and high soar, McCann made her huge breakthrough over the one-lap occasion this 12 months when enhancing her finest to 53.60 seconds when ending second behind Sophie Becker on the National Championships in Santry in June. She completed second within the Inter-Varsity Championships in April, working for Queen’s University Belfast and improved her 200m finest to 24.92 in Brussels in May. Part of the brand new technology of Irish 400m runners, she’s going to participate in her first senior worldwide occasion in Paris.Kelly McGroryKelly McGrory. Photograph: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile Age: 27Event: Women’s and Mixed 4x400m relayClub: Tir Chonaill AC (Donegal)First GamesA five-time Irish champion within the 400 metres hurdles, and associate of fellow Paris-bound sprinter Thomas Barr, McGrory can be coached by the husband-and-spouse group of Drew and Hayley Harrison in Limerick. A local of Laghy in Donegal, she improved her flat 400m time to an glorious 52.62 seconds in Brussels in May, placing her within the body for the relay alternatives. Ran one other lifetime finest of 57.10 over the 400m hurdles on the European Championships in Rome, solely to overlook the 4x400m relay although damage. She additionally ran the ladies’s 4x400m relay within the last of the World Championships in Budapest final summer time, and after ending fifth within the 400m on the National Championships final month, working 54.39, she sealed her Paris berth.