Building on last year's successes at both the European and Olympic Champs, elite Irish athletes started their indoor season with a bang. Big performance from Kate O'Connor who totally destroyed her #Pentathlon record. Maith thú
#IrishAthletics #TrackAndField #MultiEvents #MastoDaoine #IrishSports #Athletics
2) How good was the new Irish #Pentathlon record set by #KateOConnor in Estonia on Sunday?
- #2 in the World
- Would rank in the top 5 over the last five seasons
- #56 all time
Well positioned for World Indoor Champs in #Nanjing
3) Sharlene Mawdsley kicked off her #IndoorAthletics season by recording new lifetime best figures of 51.69 for the 400m at Glasgow on Sunday
https://tippfm.com/sport/athletics/mawdsley-qualifies-for-european-indoor-championship
4) Sharlene Mawdsley now lies in 4th place on the Irish indoor #400m all time list.
An improvement of 12/100ths will see see her move into 2nd place above greats Karen Shinkins and Phil Healy
See details in image below
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5) Ian O’Riordan of the @irishtimes with a rundown on last weekend’s #IrishAthletics record breaking activity by Sarah Healy, Andrew Coscoran and Kate O’Connor
New Irish indoor records for Andrew Coscoran, Sarah Healy and Kate O’Connor
#IndoorAthletics #IrishAthletics #TrackAndField #MastoDaoine #IrishSports
6) Good running from Cathal Doyle this evening as he sets new personal indoor figures for the 1500m in finishing 4th at the INIT Indoor Meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany
#IrishAthletics #IrishSport #Mastodaoine #TrackAndField #Running
7) Good run down of the various Global and Continental #TrackAndField championships in 2025 from Elizabeth Egan who recently launched the excellent Track Athletes site to keep tabs on Irish international athletes
#IrishAthletics #IrishSport #Mastodaoine #Running
https://www.trackathletes.ie/articles/another-year-of-championships
If it feels like there’s been non-stop championship action year after year since Covid, that’s because there has been. And it’s not due to end just yet: 2025 will be the fifth consecutive year with a global senior outdoor track and field championship. Indeed we’re still experiencing the knock-on ef…
8) On a night that produced 2 world records, 3 #IrishAthletics records were also written into the books at the Millrose Games in #NYC
Big congrats to Sarah Healy, Mark English and Andrew Coscoran
9) Breakthrough #400m performance for Rachel McCann of #QUB at the Irish Universities Championships in Dublin
Rachel's winning time of 53.31 was a new championship record. It also moved her to 7th place on the Indoor Irish All-Time list, exceeding her outdoor best!
10) Aoife O'Sullivan of #MTU broke the Indoor University Championship #HighJump record with a leap of 1.85m.
Aoife's jump moved her to joint 4th on the Irish All-Time list. That performance represented a 7cm improvement on her prior best
11) Video of Rachel McCann's new lifetime best and Irish Universities #400m record of 53.31 seconds
12) Video of Mark English's new indoor Irish Record for the #800M set in #NYC at the Armory. Mark Finished 4th in 1:45.15
#IrishAthletics #TrackAndField #Mastodaoine #IrishSport #Running
13) Cathal Doyle finished 3rd last night in the Liévin #Mile, behind Jacob Ingebrigsten's 3:45.14 #WorldRecord
Doyle stopped the clock at 3:53.18. En route, the Irish runner recorded 3:37.39 for the 1500m, also a lifetime best. The Irish runner now stands at #7 on both Irish Indoor All Time lists
#Mastodaoine #IrishAthletics #TrackAndField #Running
https://www.athletics.co.ke/jakob-ingebrigtsen-smashes-world-indoor-mile-record
14) Video from last nights race
#Mile #WorldRecord #Ingebrigtsen #TrackAndField #IndoorAthletics
15) Good interview with Sarah Healy who has been in sparkling form this #IndoorAthletics season having broken the Irish #3000m mark twice in successive weekends
#IrishAthletics #TrackAndField #Running #IrishSport #MastoDaoine #WomenInSport
16) Sarah Healy continues to take an axe to the Irish #IndoorAthletics record book. Her new figures of 4:01.61 ripped more than 2 seconds off her prior #1500m record set last year in Lieven
Maith Thú
17) Video of Sarah Healy's 4:01.61 #1500m Irish #IndoorAthletics record at the #KeelyKlassic
#IrishAthletics #IrishSports #SpéirGhorm #Running #TrackAndField
18) Tough break for #NickGriggs. Fortunately he’s on the mend and I hope to see him back at his best during the outdoor season
#IrishAthletics #Running #IrishSports #Mastodaoine #TrackAndField
19) Irish Collegiate athletes in action in America last week
https://www.nuttyinnyc.com/blog/irish-pipeline-report-monday-feb-18-2025
#IrishAthletics #IrishPipeline #TrackAndField #FloridaState #Providence #NewHampshire
#Running #IrishSports #Mastodaoine
20) Sharlene Mawdsley on the big changes she has made since the Paris Olympics
#IrishAthletics #TrackAndField #Running #400m #SpéirGhorm #IrishSports #Mastodaoine
21) Preview of this weekend’s Indoor #IrishAthletics championship from Katie Kirk at RTÉ Sports
How so?
I think you’re referring to the modern pentathlon which is different from the sport of #TrackAndFuekd aka athletics
Can’t say I’ve been following the modern much beyond knowing Irrland has a significant footprint in the sport
Martin Nutty
Mark Dennehy