Christie hits new heights with 3,000 metre junior record

MARK CHRISTIE got his track season off to a sensational start at Morton Stadium, Santry, on Wednesday night when he smashed the national junior 3,000m record with a sizzling 8:04.48.

It was the first serious run by the Mullingar man and student at DCU since the world cross-country championships the final event of his memorable cross-country season that saw him finish sixth in the European championships.

It was after the world's in Brussels, however, that he set his sights on the track and the junior records for 3,000m and 5,000m and he achieved the first of those objectives in the Dublin inter-club meet organised weekly by Jim Davis.