Lauren Cadden
Irish athlete (born 2000)
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Lauren Cadden (born 7 June 2000) is an Irish sprinter.[1] She is a European Athletics Championships silver medallist, having run with the Ireland team in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay in the 2024 competition.
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| Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 June 2000 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400m: 52.87 (Salamanca, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
From Skreen in County Sligo,[2] she has four brothers and played Gaelic Football before concentrating on athletics. She attended Ursuline College Sligo and studied Health Science and Physical Activity at ATU Sligo.[3]
Career
A member of Sligo Athletics Club,[4] in February 2024, she was selected to run for Ireland at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[5][6]
In April 2024, she lowered her personal best over 400 metres to 54.22 in Belfast.[7] She later lowered it again to 53.38 to win the Irish Universities Championships hosted by Queen’s University at the Mary Peters track in Belfast.[8][9]
She ran as part of the Irish women’s 4 × 400m relay team that qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas in May 2024.[10][11]
In May 2024 she was selected for the Irish team for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[12] In June 2024 Cadden ran 400 metres under 53 seconds for the first time, setting a new personal best of 52.87 seconds in the Spanish city of Salamanca.[13] She then ran as part of the women's 4 × 400m relay team that qualified fastest for the final, with the team ultimately going on to win silver.[14][15]
She qualified for the Irish team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn in the individual 400 metres as well as being included for the relay.[16] In the women's 4 × 400m relay she ran with the Irish team, placing sixth overall.[17] competed at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China in the Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay in May 2025.[18][19][20]