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Rhasidat Adeleke ( , ; born 29 August 2002) is an Irish sprinter. She was the silver medalist in the
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at the 2024 European Championships. Adeleke was the first Irish woman to break the 50-second barrier in the
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. She holds seven individual Irish national records (
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indoors, 100 m outdoors, 200 m indoors and out, 300 m indoors and 400 m indoors and out). As part of relay teams, she contributed to setting two additional national records: the women's 4 × 400 metres relay and the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay.


Early life and education

Adeleke was born in Dublin in 2002 to Yoruba parents Ade and Prince Adeleke, originally from
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in western
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. Ade has worked for the Irish state postal company
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. She attended St Mark's Primary school in
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before going on to attend Presentation Community College Terenure where she completed her
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in 2020. She is a member of Tallaght Athletic Club.


Career

In 2017, 14-year-old Rhasidat Adeleke won a junior sprint double at the Irish Schools championships for Presentation College,
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. A month later, she claimed the silver medal in the
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at the
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held in
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, Hungary. In 2018, she took gold in the event at the European Under-18 Championships staged also in Győr, and a silver at the World U20 Championships in
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, Finland, competing in the heats of the 4 x 100 m relay with Molly Scott, Gina Akpe-Moses, Ciara Neville and Patience Jumbo-Gula. In 2019, she claimed the
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/ 200 m sprint double at the
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2021-2022

In 2021, still 18, Adeleke won her first senior international outdoor title followed by winning the 100 m / 200 m sprint double at the European U20 Championships in
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, Estonia, the first women's sprint double at these championships since 2011. That same year, she took up a scholarship with the
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and competed in the US Collegiate Indoor Championships. In August 2022, she placed fifth in the
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final at the
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held in
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, setting an Irish record of 50.53 seconds.


2023

On 21 January, the 20-year-old lowered her own national indoor 200 m record with a world-leading time of 22.52 s, the fastest time by a European woman since 2003, at the Martin Luther King Invitational in
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(at altitude). On 4 February, at the UNM Collegiate Classic also in Albuquerque, she set a new Irish indoor record in the 400 m with a world-leading 50.45 s, the fastest time in history indoors or out by an Irish woman. Adeleke improved this mark to 50.33 s the same month, on 25 February at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in
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, breaking the
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record and putting her 14th on the respective world all-time list. The following month, she ran 50.45 s at the NCCA Indoors final, again in Albuquerque, earning the silver medal to become the first Irish athlete to win a medal in an NCAA sprint event. She picked up a second silver just one hour later, anchoring the Texas women's 4 × 400 m relay. Adeleke opened her outdoor season at the
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on 31 March. She split 21.7 s in the second 200 m leg of the Texas sprint medley relay, which shattered the collegiate record with a time of 3:36.10. The following day, she ran in three other relays, including the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m teams which set NCAA records with times of 42.00 s and 1:28.05 respectively, whilst the 4 x 400 m team anchored by Adeleke won the competition. On 14 and 15 April, Adeleke obliterated both her national 200 m and 400 m records clocking 22.34 and 49.90 seconds respectively at the Tom Jones Memorial in
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, becoming the first Irish woman to break the 50-second barrier at the longer distance. A month later, she was part of the relay team that lowered Texas 4 × 100 m collegiate record with a time of 41.89 s at the Big 12 Championships in
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. On 27 May, she further lowered her 400 m Irish record to 49.54 s at the NCCA Western Regionals in
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. On 8 June, she was part of the Texas 4 X 100 m relay team that again broke the NCCA record in the semi-finals at the NCCA Division 1 National Outdoor Championships in Austin, Texas in 41.55 s. At the same meet on 10 June she again lowered her national record over 400 m to 49.20 s to take gold in the final, having earlier taken gold as part of the Texas quartet that won the 4 × 100 m relay. On 16 July, Adeleke announced that she would be forgoing her final year of eligibility at the
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and would instead be turning professional. Adeleke ran her first race as a professional, representing
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, at the
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2023, a
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Gold meeting in Szekesfehervar, Hungary on 18 July. She finished second in the 200 m in 22.36 (just outside her Irish record of 22.34), behind
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of Jamaica, who ran 22.02. Adeleke made her Wanda Diamond League debut on 21 July at the
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. She finished fourth in the 400 metres in 49.99s, in a race won by Poland's
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, who finished in 49.63s. On 20 August, Adeleke won her heat in the
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in 50.8 s at the World Athletic Championships in
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. On 21 August, she finished second in her semi-final in 49.87 behind the Olympic silver medalist
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, registering the fourth fastest time overall. In the final on 23 August, Adeleke finished fourth in 50.13s, behind Paulino (48.76), Kaczmarek (49.57) and Sada Williams of Barbados (49.60).


2024

In her first race of the 2024 indoor season, on 13 January in
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, Adeleke ran a split of 51.74s in the second leg of the relay. On 20 January, Adeleke broke her Irish national indoor 60m and 200m records at the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Collegiate Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico, running 7.15s and 22.49s respectively. Adeleke broke her own Irish 300 metres indoors record at the Milrose Games in New York on 11 February, running 36.42 sec to finish second behind Talitha Diggs (US). Adeleke opened her outdoor season on 30 March at the Texas Relays in
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, where she ran the second leg in the . The winning time, 1:27.05, was a new World Best, but not a world record, as the team of Adeleke,
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, Lanae-Tava Thomas, and Dina Asher-Smith are from different countries. On 27 April, at the Texas Invitational in Austin, Adeleke won the open 100 metres in a personal best 10.84 s, ahead of Celera Barnes, Dina Asher-Smith and
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. Adeleke's time did not constitute a new Irish record as her run was wind-assisted (+3.5 metres per second). At the
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in the Bahamas on 4 May, Adeleke helped Ireland's mixed and women's relay teams to win their heats and qualify for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, running sub 50 second splits on the second leg in both. First, the team of Cillin Greene, Adeleke, Thomas Barr and
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set a new Irish record of 3.12.50 to win the mixed relay heat. Then, some 90 minutes later, the team of
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, Adeleke,
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and Sharlene Mawdsley ran 3.24.38 - another Irish record - to take their heat. On 5 May, Adeleke ran the second leg of the mixed 4 × 400m final at the same meet, and helped the Irish team to a third-place finish in 3.11.53, a new Irish record, behind the United States (3.10.73) and the Netherlands (3.11.45). Adeleke had the fastest 400 m split time (48.45) across all female 400 m runners at the meet, with 2023 world champion Marileidy Paulino next fastest (48.93), followed by world indoor champion
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(49.54). Adeleke (and teammate Sharlene Mawdsley) sat out the 4 × 400 women's final, as it took place just 30 minutes after the mixed final. On 18 May, Adeleke finished fourth over 200 m at the Los Angeles Grand Prix in 22.45, behind Americans
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(22.07),
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(22.32), and Brittany Brown (22.35). Adeleke's time was inside the Paris Olympics qualifying standard of 22.57 but below her Irish record of 22.34 set in 2023. At the
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in Rome on 7 June, Adeleke ran the second leg of the mixed relay, helping Ireland to win a gold medal, ahead of Italy and the Netherlands. The Irish team of
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, Adeleke, Thomas Barr, and Sharlene Mawdsley ran a new Irish record of 3.09.92, with Adeleke running a split time of 49.53 s. In the semi-final of the individual 400 metres at the same meet, on 9 June, Adeleke won her heat in 50.54 - the fastest among all qualifiers. In the 400 m final on 10 June, Adeleke took silver in a new Irish record (49.07 s), just behind the winner, Poland's
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(48.98 s). In the final of the women's 4 by 400 relay on 12 June, Adeleke ran the second leg to help power Ireland to a silver medal in a new national record (3.22.71 s) behind the Netherlands (3.22.95 s). Other members of the Irish quartet were again Sophie Becker, Phil Healy and Sharlene Mawdsley. At the 2024 Irish Championships, Adeleke broke the 100 metre national record, winning with a time of 11.13 seconds. At the Monaco Diamond League meet on 12 July, Adeleke won the 400 m in 49.17, her second fastest time ever, ahead of
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(49.64) and Kendall Ellis (50.39). At the London Diamond League meet on 20 July, Adeleke finished fifth over 200 m in 22.35, with USA's
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(21.82) taking top spot. On 5 August, at the
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in Paris, Adeleke won her heat in the
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in 50.09, ahead of Alexis Holmes of the United States, who ran 50.35. Adeleke posted the seventh fastest qualifying time, with Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic posting the fastest (49.42). In the first heat of the semi-finals on 7 August, Adeleke, running in lane 8, finished second in 49.95, behind 2019 World champion
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of Bahrain (49.08), and qualified for the final. Her time was 6th fastest of the 8 qualifiers, with Naser running the fastest time. As in the 2023 World Championship, Adeleke finished in fourth position in the Olympic final on 9 August in 49.28, behind the winner, Marileidy Paulino, who ran an Olympic record 48.17, Salwa Eid Naser in second in 48.53 and Natalia Kaczmarek in third in 48.98. Although Adeleke was in position to take third place on the home straight, she was passed by Kaczmarek as the finishing line approached, and just held off Great Britain's Amber Anning (49.29), who finished fifth. On 10 August, in the final of the women's 4 × 400 m relay, Adeleke received the baton from lead runner
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in sixth position, and moved to second place, before handing over to
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.
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ran the final leg, and Ireland just missed out on a bronze medal, finishing in fourth position in 3.19.90, a new national record, behind USA (3.15.37), the Netherlands (3.19.50) and Great Britain (3.19.72). Adeleke's split was 48.92. At the Silesia Diamond League, on 25 August, Adeleke again finished fourth over 400 metres in 50.00, behind Paulino (48.66), Naser (49.23) and Kaczmarek (49.95). She concluded the season with a third place finish in the 400 m and €6,300 in prize money at the Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels on 13 September. Adeleke initially crossed the line in fourth, however the disqualification of Salwa Eid Naser for a lane infringement awarded her third place and a spot on the podium.


2025

Rhasidat opened her outdoor season at the Texas Relays in Austin on March 29, running a split time of 50.78 in the professional 4 X 400 relay, where her Team International took the win in 3.25.20. Other Team International members were Dina Asher-Smith,
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and Ackelia Smith. On April 18, Adeleke finished in fourth place at the Tom Jones Memorial meeting in Gainesville, Florida. She clocked an impressive 22.57 seconds, nearly breaking her personal best and national record of 22.34, which she set at the same event two years ago. The event was won by Saint Lucian Olympic-silver-medalist Julian Alfred with a time of 21.88. Adeleke’s time has automatically qualified her to race the 200 m at the World Championships in Tokyo in September. On May 3, Adeleke finished second over 200 m in her first
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outing of the year in Keqiao, China in 22.72, behind Anavia Battle of the United States who posted a winning time of 22.38. On May 10, at the
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in
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, China, Adeleke helped Ireland's 4 × 400 m mixed relay team to qualify for this event at the World Championships in Tokyo next September. The team finished second behind the United States in Heat 2 in 3.12.56. At the same meet on the following day, Adeleke helped the Irish women's 4 × 400 m relay team to qualify for Tokyo, running the second leg in a repechage heat. Ireland won the heat in 3.24.69 secs, finishing 15 metres ahead of Australia. Adeleke made her seasonal debut over 400 metres at the Bislett Games in Oslo on June 12. She finished fourth in behind Isabelle Whittaker of the US (49.58), Norway's Henriette Jaeger (49.62), and Britain's Amber Anning (52.24).


International competitions

1Time from the heats; Adeleke was replaced in the final.


National and

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: 2021, 2022, 2024 * Irish Indoor Athletics Championships **
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: 2019 * NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships ** 4 x 100 m relay:
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