Emma Moore (Galway City Harriers) obliterated her own Irish U23 indoor 800m at the Track and Field live meeting last night.
Held at the National Indoor Arena, Moore produced the star performance of the sold-out event clocking 2:01.21 for 800m. This improves upon her previous best and Irish U23 indoor record of 2:02.34 which she ran at the CMCM Luxembourg Indoor Meeting on January 18th by over one second.
This marks the third time this season the 21-year-old Galwegian, who is coached by Joe Ryan, has improved her 800m personal best and the national U23 indoor record but this latest significant improvement was also well inside the Athletics Ireland ‘B’ Standard for the World Athletics Indoor Championships which will be held in Torun, Poland in late March.
The DCU student also moves to third on the Irish senior indoor all-time list for the event behind only Nadia Power (2:00.98) and national indoor record holder Síofra Cléirigh Büttner (2:00.58).
Moore is scheduled to race next at the World Indoor Tour Gold meet in Ostrava, Czechia next Tuesday (February 3rd), before travelling to another World Indoor Tour Gold meet in Belgrade the following Wednesday (February 11th) as she bids to strengthen her quota position in her quest to qualify for the World Indoors.
Image Credit: Eric Bellamy (@shutterdublin)
