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The flood of Irish and personal records that have filled the sessions of the Elite ILH Micro Meeting in Abbotstown continued on the second day with Phil Healy’s run of less than 52 seconds in the 400 meters topping a long list of athletes who made significant advances. .
Healy is heading to the European Indoor Championships which currently ranks sixth in Europe and with exactly that number in the final, she will be filled with the prospect of enhancing her achievement of reaching the semi-finals of two major indoor championships in recent years. three. years.
In his first race of the season, Healy’s mid-run of around 24.3 seconds showed an adventure to push the limits and required a valiant show of force on the home straight to hold up so well after such a start. Quick.
The second, Sophie Becker (53.20) and third, Sharlene Mawdsley (53.56), also achieved the European indoor record set by Athletics Ireland for the event.
The women’s 800 meters went even deeper at standard, as 24-year-old London-born Georgie Hartigan, who qualifies for Ireland through her grandmother Clare, attacked the first 600 meters holding on tightly on the home straight to record the second fastest 800 meters inside in Irish athletic history, 2: 01.48.
Louise Shanahan, second-ranked in 2: 01.67 seconds, earned her spot on the plane for the European Indoor Championships, in which Ireland will have a full complement of three athletes after Nadia Power’s Irish record of the week passed in Poland will secure his place.
UCD student Luke McCann found himself alone in the lead with a strong early pace in the men’s 1,500 meters and did well to contain John Travers in a time of 3: 40.03 seconds, well below the European standard.
Travers had secured his place in what will be his fifth European Indoor Championships by winning the 3,000 meters on Saturday night in 7: 50.40 seconds, around five seconds faster than he had run the distance indoors. .
Leon Reid achieved the best record of his life in the 60 meters of 6.68 seconds as did UCD teenage student Israel Olatunde (6.73) and both should be selected for the European Indoors when the team is named tomorrow.
Likewise, Molly Scott twice achieved the 7.36-second standard right on the button for the women’s 60 meters and will have hopes of being selected for the championships in Torun, Poland, which begin next Thursday of the week.
In total, there was a total of one senior Irish record, four under-23 records and four junior records over the two days with 20 athletes achieving European qualification marks in one of the most notable national athletics competitions, one held within the hardtail Covid-19 rules. and guidelines.
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