Co Derry, teenager Jason Smyth and Clare man Derek Malone pushed the boundaries of Irish Paralympic athletics to new height at the World Indoor Athletics Games in, Bollnas, Sweden today. Smyth,an A Level student at Limavady Grammar school, winning time in the T13 60m final of 6.92 secs breaks a fourteen year old AAI Irish Junior record. This race was the afternoon highlight of the well attended World championships. Royal Mitchell from the USA was a close second in 7.00 secs Clareman Derek Malone added to his status as a world class athlete when he won the 400m Classes 36/38 title early this morning. In a most competitive and closely fought race he came from second position entering the final straight to clinch victory by the narrowest of margins over Russia’s Valeriy Stepanskoy. Malone, who has spent much of the winter months training in South Africa, ran a winning time of 55.89secs –just one hundredth of a second ahead of the Russian. Limerick man James McCarthy, got the Irish success story off to a great start, when he putted a new Irish record of 11.16m in the F 57 class. The jovial and very competitive civil servant has experienced a number of athletic set backs during the past two years and now looks forward to the World c/ships in Assen as a medal hope. Dubliner Michael Delaney, one of the most successful Irish Paralympic athletes of recent times added a bronze medal to his ever increasing number of World awards when he high jumped 1.71m for bronze in the T12 class Kerryman Roy Guerin completed the Irish harvest when he finished 3rd in the 60m T 53/54 class –time 11.24 secs -two hundredths of a second behind silver medallist Andreas Ottosson from Sweden On the final day of the very successful IPC World Indoor Games in Sweden, Derek Malone finished 4th in the combined classes 13, 36, 38, 46 800m in a time of 2mins7.44 secs.The race was won by New Zealand T13 Tim Prendergast -1min 56.93 secs. Malone fresh from his nailbitting 400m victory yesterday ran the opening 400m conservatively and did make inroads over the final two laps to finish 4th. The Irish team must feel very happy with their exploits from a small team of six athletes -2 Gold,2 Bronze medals and a number of P.B performances