Building strength and perfecting race process is helping Sarah Healy find consistency

In early June, she claimed her first ever Diamond League victory in Rome, and there was a valuable lesson from that.

FINDING CONSISTENCY: Sarah Healy is building strength and perfecting her race process which is helping her find race consistency. Pic: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Right now, things are good. The best they’ve ever been in Sarah Healy’s career. Break this year down any which way and the metrics all come back smelling of roses. But as the 24-year-old knows, it’s not always like this.

In 2025, Healy turned in her two best ever performances at senior championships: winning 3000m gold at the European Indoors followed by a sixth-place finish at the World Indoors. She has run Irish indoor records at 1500m and 3000m and set lifetime bests at those distances outdoors, sitting second on the respective Irish all-time lists behind Ciara Mageean and Sonia O’Sullivan.