--> Michaela Walsh (born 17 December 1998) is an Irish junior record-holding

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and shotputter from

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Swinford Swinford () is a town in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is surrounded by a number of smaller villages, including Midfield, County Mayo, Midfield and Meelick, County Mayo, Meelick. It is just off the N5 road (Ireland), N5 road, 1 ...

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Athletics career

Walsh's first experience at international competitions was at the

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in Utrecht in 2013, where she finished tenth in the final. A year later, she qualified for the

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, China, where she attained sixth place in the shot-put final with 15.69 m. In 2015 she participated in the World Youth Championships in

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, Colombia, and finishing ninth in the shot put and tenth with the hammer. A year later, she finished in eleventh place in the shot put with 14.73 m, at the World U20 Championships in

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, Poland. In 2017, while ranked fourth in the hammer and sixth in the shot, she entered the European U20 Championships in

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, Italy, and winning bronze in the hammer with a throw of 61.27 meters. In addition, she finished in seventh place in the shot put. In 2017 and 2018, Walsh became Irish Indoor Champion in Shot Put.

Results

* Shot Put: 16.13 m, 17 June 2017 in

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** Shot Put (Indoor): 15.36 m, 17 February 2018 in

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* Hammer: 63.01 m, 1 July 2017 in

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Awards

* Mayo Association Dublin - ''Mayo Young Person of the Year Award''

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Walsh, Michaela Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 1998 births Irish female hammer throwers Irish female shot putters Athletes from County Mayo Living people People from Swinford, County Mayo Irish LGBTQ sportspeople European Games competitors for Ireland Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games 21st-century Irish sportswomen