West Waterford’s Joe Gough broke the over 60 world record for 800m when he ran a time of 2 mins 14.06 secs at the Leinster Indoors in Athlone. His time broke the existing best of 2:14.23 held by Horace Grant of the USA.
Gough will now go down in the history books are the first athlete to set a world record on the lightning fast track at Athlone IT. He already holds the M60 Irish (Masters Indoors Athlone 2:14.48) and European ( San Sebastian Spain Masters Championships 2:14.65) records. Next up for Gough is the World Masters Indoors in Budapest at the end of March where he will compete in the 800m and 1500m.
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