Back in the summer of 2023, Nick Griggs stood on the line in Budapest at his first World Championships alongside Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen. But ahead of this evening’s world indoor 3000m final in Torun, Poland, that feeling is long gone for the 21-year-old Tyrone athlete. “I wasn’t expecting to beat them because I didn’t think I was good enough and right enough, I wasn’t. He went on to become the fastest Irish U-20 in history at 1500m, the mile, 3000m and 5000m, and then later claimed all those same records at U-23 level. “You've allowed yourself to be in a world final,” he says.

Source: Irish Examiner March 21, 2026 07:05 UTC