Cragg continues indoor dominance

IRELAND’S Alistair Cragg continued his indoor season in flawless fashion with a double victory at the 2004 Southeastern Conference Championships in Lexington, Kentucky at the weekend.

The Johannesburg-born Irishman, competing out of the University of Arkansas, has been in blistering form since Christmas, having broken Frank O’Mara’s Irish 3000 metre indoor record on his home track in Fayetteville, Arkansas with a time of 7:38.59 on February 14.

Cragg broke more records in Kentucky when he took both the 3000m and 5000m titles to finish the meet as the joint top points scorer and become the first track athlete in SEC history to win the award three consecutive times. The double victory also took him to five SEC individual championships.