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Irish sprint star Rhasidat Adeleke copped prestigious awards in her country for her brilliant 2024 season.
Track queen Rhasidat Adeleke has been named Athletics Ireland’s Athlete of the Year for her brilliant 2024 Olympic season.
The 22-year-old speedster played a significant role in Ireland's surge on the track this year after claiming the European Championships 400m silver medal and ran an electric race to help her country win 4x400m mixed relay gold as well as women’s 4×400 relay silver medal in Rome.
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Adeleke was also a strong part of the Irish mixed 4x400m relay team that won a bronze medal at the World Relays in the Bahamas in May and was close to making history as the first Irish woman to win a 400m medal at the Olympics, finishing fourth in the individual 400m and the women’s 4x400m relay.
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11:36 - 20.11.2024
Rhasidat Adeleke: Most beautiful track athlete stuns in luxurious outfit at Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul fight
Paris Olympian Rhasidat Adeleke made a grand appearance at the Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul fight, where she was present to support legendary Irish boxer Katie Taylor in her history-making fight.
Aside from this, she is the first Irish woman to break the 50-second barrier in the 400m and holds seven individual national records (60m indoors, 100m outdoors, 200 m indoors and outdoors, 300 m indoors, and 400m indoors and outdoors).
Adeleke's national records are 400m indoors (50.33s), 200m indoors (22.52s), 200m outdoor (22.34s), 300m indoors (36.42s), 100m (11.13s) and 60m indoors (7.17s) in addition to inspiring the 4x400m mixed relay (3:09.92) and the women’s 4x400m relay (3:19.90) to new Irish records.
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Born to Nigerian parents, she was also awarded the sprint and hurdles Athlete of the Year.
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