Middle-distance runner clocks brilliant sub-3:33 run in Nice, all but securing place in World Championships
There’s no disputing it now, Andrew Coscoran smashing his own Irish 1,500 metres record with a stunning victory in Nice on Saturday night.
Clocking a brilliant 3:32.68 at The Meeting Nikaia, Coscoran improved the 3:33.49 he ran at the World Indoor Tour meeting in Birmingham back in February, at the time just about the fastest indoors or out. They had been two of the longest-standing records in Irish athletics, Ray Flynn’s outdoor mark of 3:33.5 going back 41 years, clocked during the Dream Mile run in Oslo back in July 1982, with the previous indoor mark of 3:35.4 belonging to Marcus O’Sullivan since 1988, also clocked on route to a mile win in New Jersey in 1988.
Coscoran is now out on his own, a first sub 3:33 clocking by an Irishman, the Dublin athlete now certain of his place at the World Championships in August too.
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