{"id":279046,"date":"2026-02-03T20:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279046\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:02:07","slug":"english-lowers-irish-800m-indoor-record-in-ostrava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279046\/","title":{"rendered":"English lowers Irish 800m indoor record in Ostrava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark English has lowered the Irish indoor 800m record for the second time in less than three weeks after a superb run at the Czech Indoor Gala in Ostrava.<\/p>\n<p>The Donegal man clocked 1:44.23 to finish third in the event which was a World Indoor Tour Gold meeting, breaking his own record (1:44.65) that was only<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/athletics\/2026\/0118\/1553762-english-breaks-irish-800m-indoor-record-in-luxembourg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set last month in Luxembourg.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Finn Valley AC runner now moves to tenth on the world all-time list for the event indoors and sixth on the European list.<\/p>\n<p>It continues an excellent season for the 32-year-old who also set a national indoor record over 600m in January with a time of 1:15.80 in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>English will now continue his preparations for the upcoming World Indoor Championships which will be held in Torun, Poland in March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/athletics\/2025\/0309\/1501056-oconnor-puts-herself-within-striking-distance-of-medal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">English won bronze at last year&#8217;s European Indoor Championships in the Netherlands<\/a>, adding to his record of never failing to medal when making a European final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark English has lowered the Irish indoor 800m record for the second time in less than three weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-279046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}