Healy hungry for more after impressive Diamond League run

Dubliner clocks second-fastest 1500m time of her career in China but says she 'left a bit out there'

Sat, 02 Sep, 2023 - 15:08

Cathal Dennehy

It says much about the step forward Sarah Healy has taken this year that a seventh-place finish in a Diamond League, in the second fastest time of her career, could leave her with a what-if feeling, but that was the case for the 22-year-old Dubliner in Xiamen, China today.

After a swift early pace in the 1500m, with 400m covered in 62 and 800m in 2:07, Healy got slightly detached from the leading pack, but the European U-23 silver medallist dug in over the second half to claw her way up to seventh, her 4:01.48 behind only the Irish U-23 record of 3:59.68 that she ran in the world semi-final less than a fortnight earlier. The race in Xiamen was won by Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu in 3:56.56.