In another startling breakthrough performance Nicholas Griggs has broken the European Under-20 indoor mile record, clocking a magnificent 3:56.40, less than three months after turning 17.
Also breaking four minutes for the first time, Griggs was part of a brilliant race at the final National Indoor Athletics Live meeting at Abbotstown, chasing down Andrew Coscoran all the way to the line, who took the win in 3:56:27
Last month Coscoran ran a 3:53 mile when winning World Athletics Indoor Tour mile in New York, only was pressed all the way to the line here by Griggs, the 17 year-old from Mid Ulster AC duly smashing the previous European Under-20 mark of 4:02.33 set by Britain’s Robbie-Farnham Rose in the US, back …
- March 11, 2022
