Tyrone 19-year-old Nick Griggs set a brand new world’s finest 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 reduce one second off the earlier mark set by Nice Britain Olympian Andy Butchart in Edinburgh in June 2023.
The ladies’s world finest 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 monitor and in cross nation whereas his first season at senior stage this 12 months 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 workforce as he was pipped for 1500m choice by Andrew Coscoran, Luke McCann and Cathal Doyle.
Nonetheless, Griggs regrouped from that disappointment to supply private bests over 1500m, 3,000m and 5,000m.
His Northern Eire report 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 listing for the gap forward of greats together with 1983 world 5,000m champion Eamonn Coghlan.
Griggs additionally smashed the Northern Eire 5,000m report when he ran 13:13.07 on the Morton Video games which elevated him to fourth on the Irish all-time listing for the gap and he improved his 1500m private finest 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.