Sarah Healy breaks Sonia O'Sullivan's Irish U23 record

Healy produced a superb performance to smash Sonia O’Sullivan’s Irish U23 1500m record at the World Athletics Continental Tour gold meeting in Czech Republic

Sarah Healy of UCD AC, Dublin, after winning the senior women's 1500m during day two of the Irish Life Health National Senior Indoor Athletics Championships at the National Indoor Arena at the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Sarah Healy produced a superb performance to smash Sonia O’Sullivan’s Irish U23 1500m record at the World Athletics Continental Tour gold meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic, this evening, the Dubliner finishing sixth in a world-class field in 4:02.86.

That carved three seconds off the record O’Sullivan set in 1991, and the time qualifies Healy for the World Championships in Oregon in July and the Europeans in August. It moves her to fourth on the Irish all-time list behind O’Sullivan, Ciara Mageean and Geraldine Hendricken.