Only a few days after breaking the world M55+ 3,000m document in a shocking time of eight minutes and 47 seconds, Dublin’s Shane Healy broke one other world document on the weekend on the Irish Masters Indoor Championships on Saturday.
Healy ran 2:02.46 for 800m indoors to interrupt the M55+ world document, making it his second world masters document in seven days. His time shattered the earlier world indoor mark by three seconds and is half a second quicker than the outside mark for his age class, set by Germany’s Peter Oberliessen at age 56 in 2016.
Apparently, the three,000m world document he broke final week was additionally held by a German masters runner.
55-year-old Irish runner torches masters 3,000m world document
As an alternative of competing in his age group on the Irish champs, Healy challenged himself and ran in opposition to the M35+ class, the place he positioned second general. The race was gained in 2:01.45, and Healy powered his strategy to an excellent cut up after passing by way of 400m in 61 seconds. His second-place time within the 800m was additionally quicker than the M40, M45, and M50 winners.
The precise M55 Irish title was gained in a good 2:16.34, however virtually 14 seconds slower than Healy’s time. He additionally devoted his new document to his former Irish Olympic teammate David Matthews, who misplaced his father over the Christmas holidays.
The 55-year-old middle-distance runner has been tearing up the observe for a number of a long time. In 1996, Healy represented Eire on the Atlanta Olympics within the males’s 1,500m, the place he made the semi-final. He retired from operating in 1999, however after virtually a five-year hiatus, he returned to the game and started breaking Irish and world masters information.
Healy has added three world information to his identify within the final yr: M55+ 3,000m, 800m, and the M50+ indoor 1,500m document of 4:01.76. It is just a matter of time till he grabs the M55+ 1,500m indoor document of 4:11.79.
