{"id":15617,"date":"2025-06-10T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mark-english-donegal-athlete-breaks-irish-record-in-800m-win-in-netherlands\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:57:49","slug":"mark-english-donegal-athlete-breaks-irish-record-in-800m-win-in-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mark-english-donegal-athlete-breaks-irish-record-in-800m-win-in-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark English: Donegal athlete breaks Irish record in 800m win in Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Mark English became the first Irishman to break one minute 44 seconds in the 800m as he produced a superb run at the FBK Games in the Netherlands.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 32-year-old recorded a new national record time of 1:43.92 in a brilliant win in the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series on Monday.<\/p>\n

That beat the record he had set just 10 days ago of 1:44.34 as he won in Bydgoszcz, Poland.<\/p>\n

The two performances were an improvement on his own previous record of 1:44.53, which he set in June 2024 in Madrid.<\/p>\n

Monday’s win is the Donegal athlete’s third outdoor victory of the season after he won at the Sound Running Track Fest meet in Los Angeles last month.<\/p>\n

In March, English won a European 800m bronze to take his European medal tally to five.<\/p>\n

Also on Monday, Orla Comerford won the Para-athletics women’s 100m in a season’s best time of 11.96 seconds, 0.06 seconds off the Paralympic bronze medallist’s personal best.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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