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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Sport
Eamon Doggett

Irish runner Andrew Coscoran breaks 40-year-old 1500m national record

Andrew Coscoran broke a 40-year-old national record to win at the Meeting Nikaia in Nice on Saturday.

The Balbriggan man ran 3:32.68 in the 1500m to better Ray Flynn's national record of 3:33.50 set in Oslo in 1982.

Coscoran had already gone faster than Flynn this year when running a personal best of 3:33.49 mark at an indoor event in Birmingham this year.

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