There was heartbreak for Sharlene Maudsley and The Irish women’s 4x400m relay team at the Olympics on Saturday night.
The Tipperary woman and her teammates finished fourth in the final in Paris, despite running a new national record.
Newport athlete Maudsley ran a superb PB for the anchor leg on her birthday and pushed for silver before being edged out of the bronze on the final straight.
They knocked almost three seconds off the national record set in June when they won silver at the Europeans and were just 0.18 seconds behind Britain’s Amber Anning on the line.
The new National Record is 3:19.90.
Today is the final day of the Paris Olympic Games after a successful few weeks for Team Ireland.
They will enter Sunday’s closing ceremony having secured the record number of seven medals, including Clonmel’s Daire Lynch who took bronze in the men’s double sculls with Phillip Doyle.
