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The Millrose Games, the world’s longest-running indoor athletics event, used to be the preserve of Irish athletes, writes Stephen Barry.

The famous Wanamaker Mile has been won 19 times by five different Irish athletes since Ronnie Delany’s first of four successes in 1956. Seven-time champion Eamonn Coghlan and six-time winner Marcus O’Sullivan are both in the Millrose Games Hall of Fame, while Niall Bruton and most recently Mark Carroll (in 2000) won the race.