Name: Sophie Becker
Event: Athletics - 400m, women's 4x400m, mixed 4x400m Relay
Age: 27
Sophie Becker had a nervy wait to see if she was within the required top 48 athletes to make the individual 400m event at her second Olympics.
Becker was only 0.18 seconds away from the automatic time when she set a personal best in Belfast in May, running 51.13 over the one lap event. This was the second fastest time ever run on Irish soil, behind Olga Bryzgina from the USSR in 1987.
Becker competed in the European Championships in May this year, finishing fourth in the semi-final of the 400m. The Wexford native ran the first leg of the women's 4x400m team that won silver at the same championships.
Becker trains with fellow mixed relay athlete Jack Raftery and both are coached by a team of Jeremy Lyons, Ger O'Donnell and Aideen Sinnot.
