Mark English smashes own national indoor 600m record at Abbotstown

Elsewhere, Sarah Leahy set an Irish record over 50m at the Meeting Indoor Iocarnese in Switzerland, clocking 6.41 to beat Paralympic medallist Orla Comerford

English last raced at the World Championships in Tokyo four months ago. Pic: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

Mark English got the year off to a flying start by smashing his own Irish indoor 600m record at the Track and Field Live meeting in Abbotstown on Wednesday night, the Donegal athlete clocking 1:15.80.

That brought him home over five seconds clear of runner-up Kevin Woods (1:21.00) and took a huge chunk off his previous record of 1:16:64, which English ran in Boston in 2024. It was just shy of his Irish outdoor record of 1:15.71, which he ran in Amsterdam in 2015.