Nick Griggs 'buzzing' for Euro silver after leaving everything on the course

The medal performance caps another remarkable year for Griggs, who broke the Irish U23 records over 1500m, 3,000m and 5000m.

MEDAL MAN: Ireland’s Nick Griggs celebrates winning a silver medal in Antalya. Pic: Morgan Treacy, Inpho

Nick Griggs has long been known as an athlete replete with immense courage, and bundles of class, but at Sunday’s European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkiye, the Tyrone teenager showed off another important trait: consistency.

His silver medal in the men’s U-23 race marked his third straight individual podium finish at these championships, and given he has two more years to come in this age category, it’s likely more will follow. As he put it shortly after the race: “One of these years I’ll win at these championships.”