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Record equalling run for Tonosa in Seville

26 January 2025

Hiko Tonosa equalled the Irish half marathon record of 60:51 in Seville on Sunday Jan 26th, matching the time set by Efrem Gidey in Copenhagen last September. The race was won by Kenya’s Vinicent Nyageo in 59:33.

Subject to ratification, the record marks another breakthrough for Tonosa, who set the Irish marathon record of 2:09:42 in Dublin last October. That time took seven seconds off the previous Irish record of 2:09:49, run by Stephen Scullion in London in 2020.

Tonosa has sight set on the Rotterdam Marathon in April, where he will try to secure qualification for the World Championships in Tokyo later this year.

Elsewhere, Mark English had a strong run in Nantes on Saturday, the four-time European medallist finishing second over 800m in 1:46.48 behind France’s Yanis Meziane. European U20 long jump champion Elizabeth Ndudi got her season off to a strong start by jumping 6.24m at an event in Illinois. Irish shot put record holder Eric Favors launched a 19.15m throw to finish second at the Jablonec indoor meeting in Czechia.

Hiko Tonosa

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