Sarah Lavin

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| name = Sarah Lavin

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| caption = Lavin in 2022

| full_name = Sarah Kate Lavin

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|05|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Lisnagry, Limerick, Ireland

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| sport = Athletics

| event = 100 m hurdles, 60 m hurdles

| education = University College Dublin

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Sarah Kate Lavin (born 28 May 1994) is an Irish athlete specialising in the high hurdles.{{World Athletics}} She finished fourth at the 2019 Summer Universiade. In addition, she won a silver medal at the 2013 European Junior Championships and represented Ireland at the 2020 Summer Games.{{Cite web |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-women-s-100m-hurdles-rnd1-000200-.htm |title=Athletics - Round 1 - Heat 2 Results |work=Tokyo 2020 |publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |access-date=31 July 2021 |archive-date=31 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731041601/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-women-s-100m-hurdles-rnd1-000200-.htm |url-status=dead }} Lavin competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she made it to the semi finals of the 100m hurdles.

Her personal bests are 12.62 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles (the Irish national record) (0.3 m/s, Munich 2022) and 7.90 60 metres hurdles (Glasgow 2024).

With a time of 11.27 seconds, Lavin was the previous Irish recordholder in the 100 metres flat (Switzerland 2023).{{Cite web |title=Sarah Lavin breaks 100m record and is now Ireland’s fastest woman |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/athletics/2023/09/04/sarah-lavin-breaks-100m-record-and-is-now-irelands-fastest-woman/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=The Irish Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Dennehy |first=Cathal |date=2023-09-04 |title=Sarah Lavin breaks Phil Healy's Irish 100m record |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-41219452.html |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=Irish Examiner |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-04-28 |title=Rhasidat Adeleke runs fastest ever 100m by an Irish woman |url=https://www.irishnews.com/sport/rhasidat-adeleke-runs-fastest-ever-100m-by-an-irish-woman-GO4PBWVDSZDOFKXJ455SOHXNVI/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=The Irish News |language=en}}

International competitions

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colspan="6"\|Representing {{IRL}}
2012 \|World Junior Championships \|Barcelona, Spain \|18th (h) \|100 m hurdles \|13.90¹
2013 \|European Junior Championships \|Rieti, Italy \|bgcolor=silver\|2nd \|100 m hurdles \|13.34
rowspan=2\|2014 \|rowspan=2\|European Championships \|rowspan=2\|Zürich, Switzerland \|29th (h) \|100 m hurdles \|13.25
10th (h) \|4 × 100 m relay \|43.84
rowspan=3\|2015 \|World Relays \|Nassau, Bahamas \|5th \|4 × 200 m relay \|1:36.90
rowspan=2\|European U23 Championships \|rowspan=2\|Tallinn, Estonia \|17th (h) \|100 m hurdles \|13.87
5th (h) \|4 × 100 m relay \|44.68²
2017 \|Universiade \|Taipei, Taiwan \|9th (sf) \|100 m hurdles \|13.64
2019 \|Universiade \|Naples, Italy \|4th \|100 m hurdles \|13.28
rowspan=3\|2021 \|European Indoor Championships \|Toruń, Poland \|9th (sf) \|60 m hurdles \|8.07
World Relays \|Chorzów, Poland \|10th (h) \|4 × 100 m relay \|44.53
Olympic Games \|Tokyo, Japan \|32nd (h) \|100 m hurdles \|13.16
rowspan=3\|2022 \|World Indoor Championships \|Belgrade, Serbia \|7th \|60 m hurdles \|8.09
World Championships \|Eugene, United States \|17th (sf) \|100 m hurdles \|12.87
European Championships \|Munich, Germany \|5th \|100 m hurdles \|12.86
rowspan=2\|2023 \|European Indoor Championships \|Istanbul, Turkey \|6th \|60 m hurdles \|8.03
World Championships \|Budapest, Hungary \|11th (sf) \|100 m hurdles \|12.62
rowspan=3\|2024 \|World Indoor Championships \|Glasgow, United Kingdom \|5th \|60 m hurdles \|7.91
European Championships \|Rome, Italy \|7th \|100 m hurdles \|12.94
Olympic Games \|Paris, France \|15th (sf) \|100 m hurdles \|12.69
rowspan=2\|2025 \|European Indoor Championships \|Apeldoorn, Netherlands \|4th \|60 m hurdles \|7.92
World Indoor Championships \|Nanjing, China \|17th (sf) \|60 m hurdles \|8.14

colspan="6"|Representing {{IRL}}

2012

|World Junior Championships

|Barcelona, Spain

|18th (h)

|100 m hurdles

|13.90¹

2013

|European Junior Championships

|Rieti, Italy

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|100 m hurdles