Irish long jump record broken

Kelly Proper capped a marvellous season when she broke the long standing Irish long jump record at the Amsterdam Open in Holland this evening.

After breaking the Irish U-23 record a couple of weeks ago she has now added the senior record, giving her a clean sweep of records - junior, U-23 and senior.

She opened her latest competition with an impressive 6.57m, only to find that the wind was over the legal limit at 2.1m/s. She followed up with 6.26m before jumping 6.51m, but that too was over the legal limit.

She then broke her fourth attempt before jumping 6.44m and then capped the evening with a jump of 6.51m with a following wind of 1.8m/s to break Terri Horgan's 1992 record of 6.48m.