Record-breaker Rhasidat in flying form

FOR the third weekend running, Rhasidat Adeleke broke another record when she helped her University of Texas team-mates take down their college indoor 4×400 metres relay mark which had stood for the last nine years.

Adeleke took to the track at the Tiger Paw Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina with the quartet joining forces to take the win in 3:26.73.

Earlier on Saturday, Adeleke was also first past the line in the individual 200m, clocking 22.68 seconds.

A week earlier, the Tallaght Athletics star smashed the Irish indoor 400m record that stood for 21 years held by Karen Shinkins.

The Tallaght athlete won in a world leading time of 50.45 at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic – recording the fastest 400m either indoors or outdoors by an Irish woman in history.

This follows on from last week’s stunning race in Albuquerque it the City of New Mexico, running a new Irish indoor 200m record.

The 20-year-old competed in the Dr MLK Invitational, posting a winning time of 22.52 seconds, the fastest 200m in the world this year.

The run beats her own previous Irish record of 22.85, set at the same venue last February.