{"id":629702,"date":"2026-09-19T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629702\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:02:09","slug":"new-national-record-for-mcelhinney-in-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629702\/","title":{"rendered":"New national record for McElhinney in Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darragh McElhinney set a new national record for the 5km as he finished 16th at the World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>McElhinney came home in 13:22, four seconds faster than the previous record set by Alistair Cragg in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Running in the same race, Brian Fay was 38th in a time of 13:48, while Eritrea\u2019s Dawit Seare was the winner in a time 12:56.<\/p>\n<p>Back on the track for the first time since a real career highlight when he took the bronze at the European Championships last month in Birmingham, Andrew Coscoran&#8217;s return to action saw him finish 40th in the men&#8217;s mile.<\/p>\n<p>He came home in personal best time of 4:07.95, with Cathal Doyle the best of the Irish, 17th, in a time of 3:58.40.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Robert Farken won the race in a world-leading time of 3:51.80.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s mile, Sarah Healy was 13th in a personal best time of 4:32.98, with Laura Nicholson just behind her in 21st, also recording a PB of 4:36.64.<\/p>\n<p>There was another world leading time recorded by France\u2019s Agathe Guillemot as she won the race in 4:22.74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darragh McElhinney set a new national record for the 5km as he finished 16th at the World Athletics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-629702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629702","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=629702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}