Red-hot Healy shatters Irish indoor 1500m record in France

Mere days after breaking the national indoor 3000m mark, Healy takes almost three seconds off Ciara Mageean's 1500m record

HOT ON HER HEALS: Ireland’s Sarah Healy is in a rich vein of form. Pic: INPHO/Morgan Treacy

Sarah Healy has smashed her second Irish indoor record in the space of a week, the Dubliner clocking 4:03.83 to finish fifth over 1500m at the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin, France on Saturday night.

That took almost three seconds off the mark set by Ciara Mageean in 2020. The race was won by Freweyni Hailu of Ethiopia in 3.57.24. Last weekend, Healy broke Mary Cullen’s national senior indoor record over 3000m, clocking 8:36.06 in Metz.