Rhasidat Adeleke withdrew through injury, leaving 17 individual Irish athletes named alongside eight relay members and two non-travelling reserves. Eight athletes met automatic qualifying standards; the remainder qualified through world rankings. Eight athletes remain provisionally selected pending potential World Athletics invites if higher-ranked athletes decline spots. Darragh McElhinney sits one place outside the 5000m quota after a 13:02.06 run, narrowly missing the automatic 13:01.00 standard. Laura Nicholson, Efrem Gidey and Sophie Becker are also positioned just outside their event quotas. Kate O'Connor leads the team as the only Irish top-10-ranked athlete, with a heptathlon record of 6487 points.
With the withdrawal last week of Rhasidat Adeleke, who cited injury as she called a halt to her season, the team has 17 individual athletes, with eight additional members selected for the women's and mixed 4x400m relay squads along with two non-travelling reserves. Eight of the selected athletes achieved the automatic qualification standard, while others secured their place via their world ranking.
Kate O'Connor will travel to Tokyo as Ireland's top-ranked athlete, the Dundalk multi-eventer the only Irish athlete who is ranked in the top 10 in their event. She's fifth on the world top lists for 2025 via her Irish heptathlon record of 6487 points to win the World University Games title in Germany last month, and while some big names who are set to compete in Tokyo
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