English & Lecky named on Irish European Indoor team


A strong Irish team of 16 athletes have been selected for the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow at the start of March.
As expected Mark English and Sommer Lecky are included.
Letterkenny native English who is a European indoor silver medallist from Prague in 2015 has been in excellent form where he won his 6th national indoor title yesterday.
World U20 high jump silver medallist Sommer Lecky also toasted national success on Saturday and the Finn Valley girl will be heading for Scotland to.
Along with English, the team will be led by the likes of Phil Healy (Bandon), Ciara Mageean (UCD), and Thomas Barr (Ferrybank).
Irish team for Glasgow
Women
60m
Molly Scott (SLOT), Lauren Roy (City of Lisburn), Ciara Neville (Emerald)
400m
Phil Healy (Bandon), Sophie Becker (St Joseph’s)
800m
Siofra Cleirigh Buttner (DSD)
1500m
Ciara Mageean (UCD)
High jump
Sommer Lecky (Finn Valley)
Men
60m
Joseph Ojewumi (Tallaght)
400m
Thomas Barr (Ferrybank), Cillin Greene (Galway City Harriers)
800m
Mark English (UCD), Zak Curran (DSD), Conall Kirk (Annadale Striders)
3,000m
John Travers (Donore Harriers), Sean Tobin (Clonmel)

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