Sarah Healy smashes Irish indoor 1500m record in France

Sarah Healy (U.C.D. A.C.) broke the Irish senior indoor 1500m record Saturday night. Competing at the World Indoor Tour Gold meet in Lievin, France, Healy clocked an impressive time of 4.03.83 to finish fifth. That time takes over two seconds off the previous record held by Ciara Mageean (City of Lisburn A.C.) since January 2020. The race was won by …

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Lara O’Byrne crowned National Senior Indoor Combined Event Champion

Lara O’Byrne (Donore Harriers A.C.) was crowned national senior indoor combined event champion for 2024 on Sunday at the Sport Ireland National Indoor Arena (NIA) in Abbotstown, Dublin. O’Byrne took gold in what was an exciting Pentathlon competition. The 23-year-old from Dublin was trailing Laura Frawley (Nenagh Olympic A.C.) going into the final event, the 800m, but her 2.31.24 finishing …

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Ciara Mageean through to 1500m World Final as Sarah Healy breaks u23 national record

Ciara Mageean (City of Lisburn AC) lit up Sunday evening’s session of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest with a textbook semi-final display to book her place in Tuesday’s 1500m final. Racing in the first of the two semi-finals, the Portaferry athlete never looked like being run out of the top six automatic qualifying places, ultimately crossing the finish in …

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Spectacular start for Team Ireland as 4×400 team make World Finals, Mageean and Healy through to Semi-Final

Team Ireland have had a spectacular start on the first day of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest as the mixed 4x400m team of Jack Raftery, Sophie Becker, Christopher O’Donnell, and Sharlene Mawdsley secured their place in this evening’s final with a brilliant 3:13.90 season’s best. Raftery lead the team out on the opening leg before smooth handovers to Becker …

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Exciting Irish Team Selected for SPAR European Cross-Country Championships

European silver-medallist Ciara Mageean (City of Lisburn AC) heads an Irish squad stacked with Olympic and European championship experience which has been selected for the 28th edition of the SPAR European Cross-Country Championships which takes place at La Mandria Park, on the outskirts of Turin, on December 11th, 2022. Mageean is joined in the squad by fellow Olympians Michelle Finn …

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