The Irish teenager takes one second off Andy Butchart’s mark from final 12 months
Andy Butchart’s reign as “parkrun world record-holder” got here to an finish on Saturday (November 9), when Nick Griggs improved his time by one second at Victoria Park in Belfast.
Griggs clocked 13:44, simply wanting his private 5km better of 13:39, which he recorded on the Podium 5k Pageant in March.
After Ciara Mageean ran 15:13 at Victoria Park final December, it signifies that Irish athletes now maintain the quickest parkrun instances in each males’s and girls’s classes.
Parkrun doesn’t classify instances as world data or world bests, with the organisation describing its occasions as a “run and never a race”.
Nick Griggs (Getty)
“I wasn’t going into it attempting to interrupt the file,” Griggs instructed BBC Radio Ulster.
“Earlier than the race, I knew I used to be in fine condition and knew I must be inside an opportunity of breaking the file. It was a little bit of a dash end to get it nevertheless it was a very good feeling.
“I don’t assume anybody actually knew till we completed. I checked out my watch and noticed I had taken a second off the world file. It was fairly stunning. I wasn’t actually fascinated by it, to be trustworthy. All of us realised after and there was a little bit of a buzz round it.”
Nick Griggs (Getty)
Griggs, who’s a European under-20 3000m champion and silver medallist, used the parkrun to arrange for the Irish Cross Nation Championships in Enniskillen on November 17.
The 19-year-old is hoping to achieve choice for subsequent month’s European Cross Nation Championships in Turkey.
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He claimed bronze within the under-20 race eventually 12 months’s version in Brussels, ending behind Denmark’s Axel Vang Christensen and the Netherlands’ Niels Laros.
Griggs has additionally represented Eire on the worldwide stage, putting twelfth in his 1500m warmth at the latest World Championships in Budapest.
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The Irishman boasts respective private bests of three:35.04, 7:36.59 and 13:13.07 within the 1500m, 3000m and 5000m.
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