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Andrew Coscoran (file pic). Bryan Keane/INPHO
Flying the flag

Brilliant Coscoran wins World Indoor Tour mile in New York, with McCann third

‘We’re back, baby!’

ANDREW COSCORAN PRODUCED an outstanding run to win the World Indoor Tour mile in New York last night, and capped a memorable weekend for Irish athletics.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympian clocked an electric 3:53.64 — the sixth fastest Irish indoor time ever across the distance.

Coscoran, a native of Balbriggan in Dublin, finished 0.19 ahead of USA’s Colby Alexander to triumph at the Ocean Breeze Athletics Complex.

Fellow Irishman Luke McCann was next home in 3:53.87, sealing an impressive third-place finish.

“The win, a PB and up there in the Irish all-time list — happy out,” Coscoran told journalist Cathal Dennehy afterwards, bouncing back from a disappointing season-opening 4:03.81 mile at the Millrose Games last week.

“3:53 and two Irish milers, we’re back baby,” McCann beamed while embracing Coscoran, having gone seventh on the all-time list himself.

The results wrapped up a memorable weekend for Irish athletics, in which Rhasidat Adeleke ran the nation’s fastest-ever 200m indoor time and Molly Scott built on her own record-breaking run with a win over the European champion at the Czech Indoor Gala.

Elsewhere at last night’s meet in New York, Sarah Lavin finished fifth in the women’s 60m hurdles, while Georgie Hartigan and Síofra Cléirigh Büttner were home eighth and 10th respectively in the women’s 1500m.

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