Sarah Healy breaks her own national 1500m record, Adeleke runs 600m

Healy crossed the finish line in second place in Birmingham

Sarah Healy

Sarah Healy broke a third Irish indoor record on consecutive weekends with a superb performance to finish second at the Keely Klassic in Birmingham today, the 24-year-old Dubliner clocking 4:01.62 to finish second in the 1500m behind training partner and Olympic medallist Georgia Hunter Bell (4:00.63.) 

That carved over two seconds off the previous Irish indoor record of 4:03.83 which Healy set in February last year. It continues a huge start to the season for Healy, who broke the Irish indoor 3000m record twice in recent weeks, clocking 8:35.19 at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston before lowering that to 8:30.79 at the Millrose Games in New York last weekend.

Healy is entered for both the 800m and 1500m at next weekend’s National Indoor Championships in Dublin, while she is eyeing up both the European Indoors in the Netherlands next month along with the World Indoors in Nanjing. Israel Olatunde was also in action in Birmingham, the national record holder well off his best with a 6.93-second clocking over 60m. Lauren Cadden had a strong showing in the national 400m, winning in 54.03.

Elsewhere, Rhasidat Adeleke got her 2025 campaign under way by racing a 600m in Clemson, South Carolina on Friday night, coming home third in 1:30.30 over a distance that pushed the Dubliner well out of her comfort zone. She plans to bypass both of next month’s indoor championships with her focus fully on winning her first individual global medal in Tokyo later this year.

In Boston on Friday night, Darragh McElhinney came up just shy of the European Indoor qualifying time of 7:43.00, clocking 7:43.95 in a 3000m race where the wheels fell off over the last 100m. Cormac Dalton was the leading Irish finisher over 5000m, clocking 13:28.29 to go fourth on the Irish indoor all-time list.