Irish masters runner Shane Healy might be the quickest 55-year-old distance runner on the planet. On Jan. 6 at an indoor observe meet in Dublin, Healy torched the M55+ 3,000m world file by 11 seconds, clocking a jaw-dropping eight minutes and 47 seconds.
Congratulations to Shane Healy (MSB AC) who this afternoon broke the Males’s O55 3000m World Document on the Nationwide League in NIA, Abbotstown 👏🏻
Healy clocked a time of 8.47.71 to take over ten seconds off the earlier file which stood at 8.58 🤩
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— Irish Runner (@IrishRunnerMag) January 6, 2024
Healy positioned sixth in his 3,000m warmth, beating a number of runners a 3rd of his age. His record-setting time surpassed the earlier indoor mark set by German runner Guenther Hasselmann 44 years in the past. Healy’s time was additionally faster than the three,000m out of doors file of 8:56.80, set by Australian Keith Bateman in 2010.
For a lot of distance runners, breaking 9 minutes for 3,000m is a major milestone, but Healy is doing it by a landslide at 55 years outdated, which is mind-blowing. His world file time of 8:47.71 equates to a mean tempo of two minutes and 56 seconds per kilometre and a velocity of over 20.5 km/hr.
The 55-year-old middle-distance runner has been tearing up the observe for a number of many years. In 1996, Healy represented Eire on the Atlanta Olympics within the males’s 1,500m the place he made the semi-final. He retired from operating in 1999 however after virtually a five-year hiatus, he returned to the game and commenced breaking Irish and world masters information.
Final yr, at 54, the Irishman set the M50+ indoor 1,500m world file of 4:01.76. Healy turned 55 on Oct. 8, and we are able to think about he can be including the M55+ 1,500m indoor file of 4:11.79 to his spectacular resume this season.
