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Sharlene posted before the race on her Instagram
Newport athlete Sharlene Mawdsley has secured the automatic Olympic standard in the 400m, running 50.72 at the Memoriał Janusza Kusocińskiego meeting in Chorzow, Poland.
Mawdsley won her heat at the Polish meet, dipping well under the Olympic standard of 50.95 and taking 0.37 off her previous best from September last year.
Sharlene is over the moon!
The run lifts her up to second on the all-time Irish list behind Rhasidat Adeleke's time of 49.20.
The Newport sprinter has positioned herself as a world class 400m relay runner but had yet to run the automatic qualifying time for Paris.
She now joins Adeleke as the second Irish woman to achieve the standard in the 400m for the Olympic Games.
The next major port of call for Mawdsley will be the European Athletics Championships in Rome.
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