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Síofra Cléire-Buttner ready for the European challenge.
Síofra Cléirigh-Buttner réidh do dhúshlan na hEorpa.
The European Athletics Championships will be held in Poland next week.
Reachtálfar Craobhacha Lúthchleasaíochta na hEorpa sa Phólainn an tseachtain seo chugainn.
Among the athletes taking part will be Síofra Clerk Búttner.
I measc na lúthchleasaithe a bheidh ag glacadh páirte ann beidh Síofra Cléirigh Búttner.
A young Dublin woman, who is settling in Boston, is looking forward to the challenge.
Tá bean óg Bhleá Cliath, atá ag cur futhú i mBoston, ag tnúth go mór leis an dúshlán.
She has been a busy week for the Irish Buttner’s Clerk, since breaking the national record in the 800 meter race, finishing in second place at Fayetteville in American Arkansas, in a time of 2:00:58 – fourth fastest time passed by a European athlete this year.
Tá seachtain thar a bheith gnóthach curtha di aici ag Síofra Cléirigh Buttner na hÉireann, ó sháraigh sí an curiarracht náisiúnta sa rás 800 méadar, agus í ag críochnú sa dara hÁit i Fayetteville in Arkansas Mheiriceá, in am 2:00:58 – an ceathrú am is sciopthaí a rith lúthchleasaí Eorpach i mbliana.
A young Dubliner who is currently permanently based in Boston, on the Irish team, which will be competing at next weekend’s European Championships, could not be better prepared.
Ní fhéadfadh ullmhúchán níos fearr a bheith ag bean óg Bhleá Cliath atá lonnaithe go buan i mBoston faoi láthair, agus í ar fhoireann na hÉireann, a bhéas san iomaíocht ag Craobhach na hEorpa an deireadh seachtaine seo chugainn.
Síofra has spent many years running for Ireland in the 800m and 1,500, at European and junior and under world championships.
Tá blianta fada caite ag Síofra ag rith ar son na hÉireann san 800m agus sa 1,500, ag craobhacha Eorpacha agus domhanda sóisir agus faoi aois.
She ran with him at the 2017 world championships in London, where she didn’t do very well, but the experience stood her in good stead, she says, and after four years of university scholarship she won an athletics scholarship at Villinova University in Phillidelphia, she is now strengthening, developing and flourishing in her craft under the guidance of her coach Mark Coogan, with the professional team of New Balance in Boston.
Rith sí leis ag na craobhach domhanda i 2017 i Londain, áit nár éirigh ró-iontach léi, ach sheas an taithí go mór leí deir sí, agus tar éis di ceithre bliana ollscolaíochta a chur di féin ar scoláireacht lúthchleasaíochta in Ollscoil Villinova i Phillidelphia, tá sí anois ag treisiú, ag forbairt is ag bláthú ina ceird faoi threoir a traenálaí Mark Coogan, le foireann ghairmiúl New Balance i mBoston.
She is now ready, she says, to make her mark on the big stage.
Tá sí réidh anois, a deir sí, a marc a fhágáil ar an stáitse mór.