Mageean clocks NI record as Hassan smashes mile world record

Scintillating, thrilling and full of potential - Ciara Mageean has moved considerably closer to Sonia O’Sullivan’s long-standing Irish women’s mile record by carving three-and-a-half seconds off her lifetime best in Monaco, in a race where the vintage world record was smashed by Sifan Hassan.

Mageean reduced her Northern Ireland record by a whopping 3.37 seconds to 4:19.03 in finishing eighth as the Herculis Diamond League meeting witnessed that remarkable new world record.