Emily Maher
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born | Kilkenny, Ireland | 2 May 1981
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 60m, 100 m, 200 m |
Club | KHC |
Emily Maher (born 2 May 1981 in Kilkenny) is a retired Irish athlete who specialised in the sprinting events.[2] She represented her country at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2006 World Indoor Championships.
Competition record
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Ireland | |||||
1998 | World Youth Games | Moscow, Russia | 1st | 100 m | 11.93 |
1st | 200 m | 24.16 | |||
World Junior Championships | Annecy, France | 20th (qf) | 200 m | 24.28 | |
1999 | European Junior Championships | Riga, Latvia | 4th | 100 m | 11.72 |
4th | 200 m | 23.70 | |||
2000 | World Junior Championships | Santiago, Chile | 7th | 100 m | 11.73 |
6th | 200 m | 24.00 | |||
Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 16th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:32.24 | |
2001 | European U23 Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8th | 100 m | 11.93 |
6th | 200 m | 23.80 | |||
2003 | European U23 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 20th (h) | 100 m | 11.95 |
– | 4 × 100 m relay | DQ | |||
2005 | European Indoor Championships | Madrid, Spain | 23rd (h) | 60 m | 7.60 |
Universiade | Izmir, Turkey | 11th (sf) | 200 m | 23.89 | |
3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.69 | |||
7th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:36.10 | |||
2006 | World Indoor Championships | Moscow, Russia | 15th (sf) | 60 m | 7.37 |
Personal bests
[edit]Outdoor
- 100 metres – 11.58 (+2.0 m/s) (Bedford 2000)
- 200 metres – 23.34 (-0.6 m/s) (Dublin 2000)
- 400 metres – 53.61 (2000)
Indoor
- 60 metres – 7.36 (Belfast 2006)
- 200 metres – 24.00 (Belfast 2003)
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Emily Maher". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ Emily Maher at World Athletics
Categories:
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Athletes from County Kilkenny
- Irish female sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Ireland
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Ireland
- Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade
- Olympic female sprinters
- 21st-century Irish sportswomen
- Irish athletics biography stubs