2 Olympics🏃♂️ had 2 Irish records 800m 1000m=51 yrs in total.📺🎤3 x OLYS commentator RTÉ .TRACK & FIELD LIVE Meet Director -I’m an Adoptee & have Adopted
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Big News ( small ban) Multiple World medalist - banned for 4 months
The AIU has banned Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia) for 4 months from 1 June 2026 for Presence/Use of Prohibited Substance (Metabolite of Letrozole). DQ results from 5 December 2025.
Details here: bit.ly/TSEGAY-Decision
Details here: bit.ly/Press-Release-Tsegay-…
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David Matthews retweeted
Irish Olympic runner Ciarán Ó Lionáird dies suddenly aged 38 dlvr.it/TSyT85
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Most people thought Keely 🇬🇧 (Oly Champ) was a “Shoe in” at European Championships 🇪🇺in August- Audrey🇨🇭has ripped up the script-800 is best!
The Women's 800m just keeps getting better & better! 🤯🇨🇭
Audrey Werro gets the better of Keely Hodgkinson in Stockholm, the Swiss athlete victorious in a national record of 1:53.98 - the third fastest time in history! 👏
Hodgkinson's finish of 1:54.33 ranks sixth in the all-time leaderboards and is the fastest ever non-winning time in 800m history! 🫨
Bring on #Birmingham2026 🍿
#EuropeanAthletics 💎 #DiamondLeague
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It’s 2nd for @markenglish_ - a conservative opening 600mts left a little too much to catch Tual 🇫🇷 but once again like Shanghai 🇨🇳 finished like a steam train!! Great run!
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This Event in @meeting_goetzis is a real barometer of the early season form in the Heptathlon. 1st Kalin 🇨🇭6726 NR 2nd Oosterwegal 🇳🇱 6705 3rd Docker 🇳🇱 6627
( no Kate O’Connor 🇮🇪 competing at this meeting opting instead for a training g camp her NR is 6714)
Simon Ehammer and Annik Kälin became the first-ever Swiss winners of the @meeting_goetzis 🔥
They did so by setting world leads and national records during the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting on Saturday and Sunday (30-31 May) 💫
Full report 🔗 bit.ly/4wY7oQ2
📸 László Zsigmond
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We’re out and I’m on the road- Jump on!
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Nick Faldo definitely poking Bryson DeChambeau 😂😂
(Probably made the club on the Kitchen table……. Humidity ) #TheMasters #Masters👌
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Less than 2 years separating them in Age.
Dokter 🇳🇱 23 yrs old
Hall 🇺🇸 25 yrs old
O’Connor 25 yrs old
This has the makings of a Track(&Field) rivalry that promises to keep delivering!
👏Brilliant for the Sport👏
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Just 49 points separated the #WorldIndoorChamps pentathlon podium!
🥇4888🇳🇱Sofie Dokter
🥈4860🇺🇸Anna Hall
🥉4839🇮🇪Kate O'Connor
ALT Just 49 points separated the #WorldIndoorChamps pentathlon podium! 🥇4888🇳🇱Sofie Dokter 🥈4860🇺🇸Anna Hall 🥉4839🇮🇪Kate O'Connor
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Disappointed for Mark English- 4th 1.46.70
A Race that got away from him-expended a huge amount of of energy with 300m to go to move from 5th to 1st
A lot of contact with Patterson 🇬🇧 (didn’t help) faded over last 100mts - Gutted for him!
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Semi Final- Achieved for for Mark English-
Controlled the race from the start …. Made decisive move with 300m to go- using all of that experience ( looking at screen/ staying out of trouble) Easing across the line to win his heat in
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Mark English primed for another 800m medal shot at the World Indoor Championships
Former Irish 800m record holder David Matthews believes English’s experience (he turns 33 on Wednesday) will count in Poland this weekend
irishtimes.com/sport/athleti…
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☀️The writing is on the Roof☀️
31kwh produced today!
You have to go back to mid August (17th) to find a brighter day-(Over 6mts ago 😳)
Here’s to the brighter days!
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1.59.07 for Femke Bol-Steep learning curve, she was left in no man’s land on the really important 3rd lap…..
Maybe didn’t have the belief or the speed endurance to commit (that’s what’s needed in the 800m)
No doubt next outing over 8 she’ll move into 1.58/57 territory.
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Big news story in Track & Field for 2026 is Femke Bol 🇳🇱 (2 x🥇World Champion 400h) moving up to 800m.
It’s uncharted waters.
She races Metz 🇫🇷on Sunday over 800(can’t find a previous time even 10 yrs back)
World Record- Čeplak 🇸🇮 1.55.82 (2002)
What will she Run?Have a Guess
8%
1.54-1.55.81(new WR)
12%
1.55.82-1.56.50
17%
1.56.50-1.57.50
63%
1.57.50-1.58.50
92 votes • Final results
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What an opening to the 2026 Season for Mark English
14th Jan 600m 1.15.80 NR -Dublin
18th Jan 800m 1.44.65 NR-Luxembourg
3rd Feb 800m 1.44.23 NR-Ostrava
He’s like a fine Wine!
Big year ahead
World Indoors Poland
European Championships -Birmingham
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Big win for Darragh….. 👏👏👏
LUCK OF THE IRISH ☘️
Darragh McElhinney wins the 3k in Boston with a time of 7:38.96‼️
#BUTerrierClassic and #CollegeTF coverage presented by @SauconyRacing
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3 months ago @markenglish_ texted me looking for me to put on a 600mtrs✅
3 wks go,asked me for a pacer to take him through 400m in 48 sec❓
I couldn’t get anyone fast enough to lead him🇮🇪❌
3 days ago-I told him,I’d no one❌
He toed the line,regardless ✅Class Act✅T&F Live
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💥 National indoor record 💥in Luxembourg!
Mark English breaks his own record 🇮🇪 with an amazing 1.44.65 taking exactly 1/2 second off his previous best from Feb 2021-outstanding although the signs were there after his solo brilliant run on Weds evening! He’s like a fine wine!
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