Caolan McGonagle of Donegal during the Allianz Football League Division 1 match against Dublin last year
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25 Jan 2026
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Mark English
Mark English was third in an 800m in France on Saturday night.
The Finn Valley AC athlete placed third in the race at Meeting Indoor de Lyon.
It proved a slow-paced four laps of the Halle Stéphane Diagana, where English clocked 1:46.63.
English was just pipped for second by Morocco’s three-time Olympian Abdelati El Guesse (1:46.62) on the line and the race was won by Algeria’s Mohamed Ali Gouaned in 1:45.85.
Last Sunday in Luxembourg, English dropped the Irish indoor 800m to 1:44.65 for the win at the CMCM Luxembourg Indoor Meeting.
That brought down the 1:45.15 he clocked a year ago at the Millrose Games in New York and came just four days after he set a new Irish indoor 600m record when going 1:15.80 at Track and Field Live in Dublin, wiping out his own 1:16.64 from 2024.
Last summer, English lowered the Irish 800m outdoor record three times, going down to 1:43.37 before Cian McPhillips recorded a1:42.15 on his way to finishing fourth at the World Championships in Tokyo.
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English returned to action with a period of altitude training pre-Christmas before coming back to win the Finn Valley AC 5k on St Stephen’s Day.
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