Tyrone 19-year-old Nick Griggs set a brand new world’s greatest time for the Parkrun when he clocked 13 minutes and 44 seconds at Victoria Park in Belfast on Saturday.
The Newmills runner’s time for the 5km distance minimize one second off the earlier mark set by Nice Britain Olympian Andy Butchart in Edinburgh in June 2023.
The ladies’s world greatest was additionally set on the Belfast venue final December when Griggs’ fellow Irish worldwide athlete Ciara Mageean clocked quarter-hour and 13 seconds.
Parkrun doesn’t classify instances as world information or certainly world bests with the organisation describing its occasions as a “run and never a race”.
Griggs burst on to the athletics scene in the summertime of 2021 when he gained the European Beneath-20 3,000m title as a 16-year-old.
He has gone on to win additional European Beneath-20 medals on the observe and in cross nation whereas his first season at senior degree this yr noticed him representing Eire within the 1500m on the European Championships in Rome.
The 19-year-old, who will flip 20 subsequent month, missed out on a spot in Eire’s Olympic crew as he was pipped for 1500m choice by Andrew Coscoran, Luke McCann and Cathal Doyle.
Nevertheless, Griggs regrouped from that disappointment to provide private bests over 1500m, 3,000m and 5,000m.
His Northern Eire file 3,000m time of seven:36.59 on the Diamond League assembly in London on 20 July moved him to fourth on the Irish all-time checklist for the space forward of greats together with 1983 world 5,000m champion Eamonn Coghlan.
Griggs additionally smashed the Northern Eire 5,000m file when he ran 13:13.07 on the Morton Video games which elevated him to fourth on the Irish all-time checklist for the space and he improved his 1500m private greatest when taking victory in 3:35.04 on the British Milers Membership assembly in Tooting a number of days earlier than the beginning of the Olympics.
