Westport athlete Freya Renton smashes two more records

Westport AC’s Freya Renton has sent records tumbling the 123.ie National Juvenile Indoor Championships in Athlone.

On her fifteenth birthday, the multiple gold medal-winning athlete set a course record by winning the 1,500-metre middle distance race with a time of 4 minutes 26 seconds. This time also beat the U-17, U-18 and U-19 women’s 1,500-metre times.

The day previously, Renton broke the course record and set a new national record by running the 800-metres in 2 minutes and 11 seconds.

This comes after Renton won gold for Ireland by beating her nearest opponent by 23 seconds at the SIAB Schools International cross country championship.

The Westport AC star gave a sensational performance to take the gold medal in the Intermediate girls 4000m event in Falkirk, Scotland.

Her competitors tried to stay on terms with her in the early stages, but Renton extended her twenty-five-metre lead after the first kilometre as the race progressed.

England’s Jasmine Christmas and Kitty Scott tried to hang on to Renton’s early pace but had to settle for second and third as the Westport superstar finished after 13 minutes and 54 seconds - 23 seconds ahead of second-place Christmas.

Freya’s sister, Holly, put in a solid performance to finish sixth with a time of 14 minutes and 32 seconds.

The Rentons and fellow Westport AC member May Duckett were part of an Ireland team that secured a team silver medal at the championships, which took place in Falkirk in Scotland over the weekend.

The Ireland team won an impressive six team silver medals (Junior Girls, Junior Boys, Intermediate Girls, Intermediate Boys, Mixed Junior Relay and Mixed Inter Relay) as well as six individual medals.

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