Bori Akinola smashes Irish 60m record in Belgrade

The 24-year-old UCD athlete took three hundredths of a second off the record set by Israel Olatunde in 2023

Bori Akinola's previous best for the 60m was the 6.59 he ran in Glasgow in January. Pic: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Bori Akinola smashed the Irish 60m record at the Belgrade Indoor Meeting in Serbia on Wednesday, clocking 6.54 to carve three hundredths of a second off the previous record.

Akinola finished second at the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting behind Hungary's Illovszky (6.52), smashing the previous Irish record of 6.57, set by Israel Olatunde in 2023.