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Round-Up: English Smashes Irish 800m record, Buttner fourth in Portugal

By on February 2, 2014 in athletics news

UCD’s Mark English set a new Irish 800m indoor record of 1:46.82 at the Woodie’s DIY Open Games in Athlone, breaking Daniel Caulfield’s 13-year-old record of 1:47.21. The time was also inside the World Indoors qualification mark of 1:47.00. After pushing the pace from the start, English finished second behind Thijem Kupers of Netherlands, who […]

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Record 1,622 at Parkruns

By on January 12, 2014 in athletics news

An astonishing 1,485 turned out for the four Dublin area Parkruns yesterday – a massive jump by about 25% on previous best figures. Add in Wesport and Macroom, and a total 1,622 ran a Parkrun in the Republic. About 15,000 have run at least one Irish Parkrun in the 13 months since Parkrun came to […]

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