Amy Foster has equalled the Irish indoor 60m record to qualify for March’s World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, writes Will Downing. The City of Lisburn athlete clocked 7.30 seconds in winning at the London Indoor Games at Lee Valley to match the Irish record held by Ciara Neville and Anna Boyle. Foster, who also holds a share of the Irish 100m outdoors record with Ailis McSweeney, had earlier clocked 7.42 in winning her opening round heat in London. Meanwhile, Adam McMullen has set a new Northern Ireland long jump record of 7.97m in Jordanstown, just three centimetres off Ciaran McDonagh’s Irish indoor record from 2006. And Finn Valley AC’s Sommer Lecky set a new Irish junior high jump record in retaining the Scottish senior indoor title at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, clearing 1.86 metres - five centimetres better than her previous record.

Source: Irish Examiner January 28, 2018 17:03 UTC