Ciara Mageean was happy with her opening performance of 2022
Ciara Mageean bettered her own Northern Ireland record in a 3000m victory at the World Indoor Tour Silver event.
The 29-year-old, whose 2021 was disrupted by injuries, started her indoor season with a winning time of 8:47:24 in Manchester on Saturday.
Mageean ran a superb final lap to edge out Albania's Luiza Gega with Verity Ockenden of Great Britain third.
"I was really wanting the Irish record and didn't get it but I felt good," she told Athletics Weekly.
Mageean's time was 3.50 seconds outside Mary Cullen's Irish mark set in 2009.
