Sixth-place finishes for Healy and Coscoran at World Indoors

Sarah Lavin is the sole remaining Irish competitor at the championships, the Limerick athlete racing the heats of the 60m hurdles at 2:33am Irish time on Sunday morning.

SIXTH PLACE: Sarah Healy and Andrew Coscoran finished in sixth place in their 3000m finals at the World Indoor Championships.

Even in an event like the 3000 metres, there is no real substitute for pure speed, and in the end Sarah Healy and Andrew Coscoran didn’t quite have enough of it to go with the world’s best in Nanjing, China, today.

Healy clocked 8:40.00 to finish sixth in the women’s 3000m final at the World Indoor Championships, a race won by Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu in 8:37.21, while Coscoran clocked 7:48.53 to also finish sixth in the men’s race, won by Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen in 7:46.09.