{"id":49761,"date":"2025-09-07T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49761\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:21:09","slug":"mark-english-wins-800m-at-world-athletics-continental-tour-in-beijing-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49761\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark English wins 800m at World Athletics Continental Tour in Beijing \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Another perfectly executed 800m by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mark-english\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mark-english\/\">Mark English<\/a> provided the ideal tune-up for the World Athletics Championships which begin in Tokyo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Competing at the World Athletics Continental Tour meeting in Beijing on Sunday, the last competition stop for athletes on route to Japan, English cruised to victory in 1:44.67, a meeting record and his eighth sub-1:45 this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Sitting in third coming into the homestretch, English kicked past Kenya\u2019s Wycliffe Kinyanal and Belgium\u2019s Peter Sisk in the last 50m, running well within himself. Pablo Sanchez-Valladares also closed fast to take second in 1:44.79, Kinyanal fading to third in 1:44.86.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Tokyo will be the 32-year-old Donegal athlete\u2019s seventh successive World Championships, and the 800m has never been stronger. For the first time ever, 15 men have broken 1:43 in the same season, led by Kenya\u2019s Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi (1:41.44).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Still English has been making significant strides of his own, breaking his Irish 800m record three times \u2013 taking it from 1:44.53 to 1:43.37.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last month, he also won his 10th Irish outdoor title, to sit alongside his nine indoor titles, when beating Cian McPhillips into second place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">English will now join the Irish holding camp in Hong Kong ahead of Tokyo, where his 800m heat is set for Tuesday, September 16th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">McPhillips will join him in the heats after running 1:44.19 in July, second only to English on the Irish all-time list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Meanwhile at the Fifth Avenue Mile in New York, Nick Griggs produced a storming run to nail fourth place, the 20-year-old from Tyrone clocking 3:49 on the partly downhill course in the heart of the Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Victory went to Yared Nuguse, the Olympic 1,500m bronze medallist from the US, who clocked 3:48, but Griggs was right on his heels in the blanket finish, with Parker Woulfe and Drew Hunter from the US second and third, both also clocking 3:49.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Griggs fell short of qualification for the World Championships in Tokyo, his season delayed due to a serious knee infection picked up last December, but did run Irish under-23 records in the mile and 5,000m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another perfectly executed 800m by Mark English provided the ideal tune-up for the World Athletics Championships which begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[36726,18,19,17,132,36725,9715],"class_list":{"0":"post-49761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-800m","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-world-athletics-continental-tour","14":"tag-world-athletics-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761","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=49761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}