O'Sullivan takes second walk world record

Gillian O'Sullivan claimed a second world record today when she took five seconds off the world record in the 3 km walk at the…

Gillian O'Sullivan claimed a second world record today when she took five seconds off the world record in the 3 km walk at the Irish Indoor Athletics Championships in Belfast.

O'Sullivan already holds the current world 5km record.

The Kerrywoman set a new world's best of 11mins 35.33sec taking five seconds off the previous record held by Romania's Claudia Ivan.

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