Irish women's relay team win Silver at World U-20 Championships

The Irish women's 4x100m relay team won silver at the World U-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland today. The team of  Molly Scott, Gina Akpe-Moses, Ciara Neville and Patience Jumbo-Gula ran a national under-20 record time of 43.90 to finish behind Germany and in front of Great Britain to take Silver.

In the video below, the Irish team are in lane 5.

SILVER! 🥈
They’ve only gone and done it! Fantastic run in the 4x100 relay. 43.90 for @RunMollyRun13, @GinaAkpeMoses, @ciara_nev100 and @Patience_Jumbo.
Incredible pace from Patience at the end!
What a team, what a day! 🇮🇪 #HerSport #HerAthletics https://t.co/CHGnfM7f9V pic.twitter.com/HWlCaNt1o1

— HerSport (@HerSportDotIE) July 14, 2018

Irish U20 Women's Relay Team set new National Record

The Irish under 20 women's relay team set a new junior record in the 4 x 100m at the Lausanne Diamond League on Thursday the 6th of July 2017.

The Irish team of Molly Scott, Sharlene Mawdsley, Gina Akpe-Moses and Ciara Neville ran in lane 1 and finished in an impressive 6th place, pretty amazing when you consider that they are all under 20 years old.

The new Irish U20 record of 44.31s was about 0.7 seconds faster than the old record of  45.08s.



The race video is shown below. Look for the Irish quartet in lane 1...Molly Scott (SLOT), Sharlene Mawdsley (Newport), Gina Akpe Moses (Blackrock Louth) and Ciara Neville (Emerald).



The Irish women's 4x100m team are in action again at the European U20 Athletics Championships in Grosseto, Italy in two weeks time (July 20th-23rd).

Links...
1) Full results

Molly Scott from Ireland wins 60m Hurdles at English Championships

Last weekend, the English Age Group Championships were held in Sheffield on Sat 28th Feb/Sun 1st Mar 2015. A number of Irish juvenile athletes took part and as outlined in an earlier post, Ciara Neville from Emerald AC in Limerick won the 60m sprint ahead of some of the top U17 sprinters in England.

In the final of that 60m race on Saturday, Molly Scott from St.Laurence O'Toole AC in Carlow finished 2nd by just two one-hundredths of a second.

Ciara and Molly who are both just 15 years old were back in action on the Sunday but this time in the U17 60m hurdles.

U17 Women 60m Hurdles Heats DAY 2

HEAT 4 BIB ATHLETE CLUB PERF
1 86 Ciara NEVILLE Ireland 8.82 Q

HEAT 7 BIB ATHLETE CLUB PERF
1 99 Molly SCOTT Ireland 8.70 Q

SEMI 1 BIB ATHLETE CLUB PERF
2 86 Ciara NEVILLE Ireland 8.77 Q

SEMI 2 BIB ATHLETE CLUB PERF
1 99 Molly SCOTT Ireland 8.60 Q
In the final, Molly finished first by a clear margin.

18:25 T73 U17 Women 60m Hurdles Final DAY 2
FINAL 1 BIB ATHLETE CLUB PERF
1 99 Molly SCOTT Ireland 8.51
2 233 Hollie WILLIAMSON Shrewsbury AC 8.62
3 210 Isabella HILDITCH Blackheath & Bromley AC 8.64
4 86 Ciara NEVILLE Ireland 8.65

Ciara Neville and Molly Scott are probably two names you might expect to hear a lot more in the future.

There is an interview with Molly after a schools event last year in this YouTube clip.

15 year old Irish sprinters Ciara Neville & Molly Scott take top 2 places at English Athletics Championships

Last weekend, 15 year old Ciara Neville of Emerald AC caused a but of an upset when she took silver in the senior womens 60m race at the Irish Indoor Championships in Athlone.

Today Saturday the 28th of February, she was in action again but this time at the English U17 Age Group Championships. Obviously this was going to be a completely different affair as Ciara was going head to head with some of the best up and coming talent in England.

In the first semi-final of the 60m, Ciara finished first in 7.57 seconds (2nd 7.64 and 3rd 7.73). In the 3rd semi-final, Molly Scott of St.Laurence O'Toole AC in Carlow finished first in 7.61s (2nd 7.66 and 3rd 7.81). This I belive was a new PB as her previous best was 7.79s set on the 10th of January this year.

In the final, Ciara won the race in a time of 7.56 seconds while Molly finished 2nd in 7.58s (3rd athlete was 7.58s as well).

Considering that both are just 15 years old, would have been going up against 16 year olds and some of the best sprinters in England in that race,  then it's a remarkable result.