It was a weekend when three Irish indoor records fell.
Andrew Coscoran and Sarah Healy broke Irish 3000m records at the prestigious New Balance Indoor Grand Prix meeting in Boston on Sunday night.
Whereas, Dundalk’s, Kate O'Connor broke her own national senior Pentathlon indoor record at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour in Tallinn, Estonia.
Coscoran made a race-winning-move with 400 metres remaining. Overtaking long-time leader Azzedine Habz to storm to victory in a new Irish record time of 7:30.75.
A World Lead time and the fourth fastest time ever clocked by a European athlete.
The performance Coscoran take 10 seconds off his personal best and eight seconds off Alistair Cragg's national record which stood since 2004.
Elsewhere, Sarah Healy was also in record-breaking form at the Boston Meet, smashing her own indoor 3000m record to finish fourth in a time of 8:35.19. The race was won by Great Britain's Melissa Courtney-Bryant in 8:28.69.
Meanwhile, Kate O'Connor set a new national senior pentathlon indoor record in Tallinn. O’Connor, became Ireland’s first ever heptathlete to compete at an Olympic Games in Paris last year.
O’Connor equalled or bettered her indoor personal bests in all five of her events to finish the competition in second place on 4,683 points.
The total bettered her old mark set in 2023 by 287 points.
Performance Summary:
- 60mH - 8.37
- High jump - 1.82m
- Shot - 14.42m
- Long jump - 6.16m
- 800m - 2.13
All three athletes have secured the automatic qualification standards for the upcoming European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn (March 6–9).
Elsewhere, Sharlene Mawdsley got her season off to a winning start over 400m at the Scottish Athletics EAP Indoor Invitational. Mawdsley clocked a new indoor personal best of 51.69 seconds to also secure the European Indoors standard.
