{"id":4214,"date":"2025-08-17T05:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4214\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T05:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:48:12","slug":"athletics-round-up-sarah-healy-maintains-lead-in-diamond-league-1500m-as-pierre-murchan-wins-frank-duffy-10-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4214\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics round-up: Sarah Healy maintains lead in Diamond League 1500m, as Pierre Murchan wins Frank Duffy 10 Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt was an OK day for me,\u201d said Healy, the reigning European Indoor champion over 3000m. \u201cNot amazing, not too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Healy has run 3:57 in her last three 1500m races and looks capable of threatening Ciara Mageean\u2019s Irish record of 3:55.87 in her next outing at the Diamond League final in Zurich later this month.<\/p>\n

She ran in the middle of the pack in Silesia as Ethiopia\u2019s Gudaf Tsegay set a kamikaze pace out front, passing 800m in an astonishing 1:59 then holding on to win in 3:50.42. Kenya\u2019s Beatrice Chebet was second in 3:54.73 and Britain\u2019s Georgia Hunter Bell \u2013 who trains with Healy \u2013 third in 3:56.00.<\/p>\n

\"Sarah<\/p>\n

Sarah Healy <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really great race,\u201d said Healy, who still leads the Diamond League standings over 1500m.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew they were going out really fast at the start and I feel like I raced the first half very well and I just didn\u2019t really have the legs the last lap. I\u2019m a little bit disappointed with the place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just keep running 3:57 at the minute, but the season is going really well so far. Today was difficult, but I\u2019ll take a lot of learnings from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s 3000m, Kenyan superstar Faith Kipyegon just missed the world record of 8:06.11, set by China\u2019s Wang Junxia in 1993, the three-time Olympic 1500m champion clocking 8:07.04.<\/p>\n

Norway\u2019s Karsten Warholm turned in a statement performance in the 400m hurdles, breaking the Diamond League record with 46.28, while Britain\u2019s Keely Hodgkinson made a superb comeback in her first race since the Paris Olympics, powering to victory over 800m in 1:54.74.<\/p>\n

Sarah Lavin was in action in Bern, Switzerland, the 10-time Irish 100m hurdles champion clocking 13.20 (-0.9m\/s) in damp conditions to finish fourth, with victory going to Ditaji Kambundji in 12.66.<\/p>\n

In Leuven, Belgium, national champion Jack Raftery turned in another strong performance to finish fourth over 400m in 45.50, with Cill\u00edn Greene clocking 46.54, Andrew Egan running 47.59 and Chris O\u2019Donnell clocking 47.59. Nick Griggs was the best of the Irish in the 1500m, clocking 3:37.64 to finish 12th.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile back in Dublin, Pierre Murchan of Dublin City Harriers took victory in the Irish Life Frank Duffy 10 Mile in the Phoenix Park, clocking 49:02 to beat defending champion Hugh Armstrong (49:45), with Stephen McAuley third in 50:55.<\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s race, Ann-Marie McGlynn (Strabane AC) continued her dominant run in the 2025 Irish Life Dublin Race Series, the reigning national marathon champion winning in a course record of 56:08. Caitlyn Harvey clocked 59:40 for second while Kate Purcell was third in 59:58.<\/p>\n

In other news, Listowel AC will host a tribute night next Saturday to Jerry Kiernan, with John Treacy and John Lenihan among the guests who will speak about the late, great distance runner and beloved coach and TV pundit.<\/p>\n

It will take place at 8pm in the Listowel Arms Hotel and admission is free, with the inaugural Jerry Kiernan 5K taking place the following morning around the roads of Kiernan\u2019s native town.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Jerry got enough recognition for what he did as an athlete and a coach and we want to keep that memory alive,\u201d said Kevin Lynch, chairperson of Listowel AC.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a gentleman of a man. He had a lot of good friends down here and he was always loved by Listowel whenever he came down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was an OK day for me,\u201d said Healy, the reigning European Indoor champion over 3000m. \u201cNot amazing,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[4632,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-4214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cathal-dennehy","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}