Ronnie Baker is one of the USA’s greatest 100m sprinters of all time with a personal best time of 9.78w. He will be making his first trip to Ireland in competition. He has been running consistently 10 seconds or under for 100m since 2017. He has recently run 9.98 in the US and  could be the first sprinter to run a sub 10 sec on the island of Ireland.

 

 

His main competition will come from Retshidisitswe Mlenga RSA who is in great form running 9.93w last week in Spain and Cejhae Greene from Antigua who ran 10 sec dead last month. Also in the field will be JT Smith USA, a finalist in the US Olympic Trials last weekend.

 

The Irish record holder and multiple national champion Israel Olatunde will enjoy the challenge of being in a hot race and will be looking to improve his Irish record on the new track at MTU. Bori Akinola another up and coming Irish athlete who gave Olatunde a scare at the National championships last weekend, coming a close second, will also be in the field.