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English lowers his own Irish 800m record again

English lowers his own Irish 800m record again

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Mark English lowered his own Irish 800m record by more than half a second in Budapest on Tuesday.The 32-year-old was competing at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting.The Donegal native clocked a time of one minute 43.37 seconds to finish second behind Kenya's Laban Kipkorir Chepkwony, who won the race with a time of 1:42.96.The race marked the third time that English has lowered the national record this season, having previously done so in Poland in May and then in the Netherlands a month later.English won a bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships in March and is working towards next month's World Championships in Tokyo.

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