Records and world leads set over eventful indoor weekend

Mark English, Cameron Myers, Yarsolava Mahuchikh, Larissa Iapichino and Jake Odey-Jordan waste little time in hitting kind in 2026.

Mark English rounded off an eventful weekend of indoor athletics by breaking his personal Irish indoor 800m report with a run of 1:44.65 on the CMCM Luxembourg Indoor Assembly on Sunday (January 18). 

The time additionally represents a gathering report and got here due to a powerful closing surge from the 32-year-old, who lowered his nationwide mark of 1:45.15, set on the Millrose Video games in New York final 12 months.  

He wasn’t the one center distance man to point out spectacular kind at this early stage of the 12 months, as Australian teenager Cameron Myers laid down an excellent marker on Saturday (January 17) by setting a world lead over the mile.

Racing on the Washington Indoor Preview in Seattle, the 19-year-old led the best way in a race that noticed eight rivals break 4 minutes, clocking 3:49.81 to win by almost 5 seconds from American duo Sam Prakel and Brannon Kidder.

It’s the quickest indoor mile ever run within the month of January and broke Yomif Kejelcha’s assembly report of three:52.61.

Two different athletes produced world-leading performances on the identical day, with Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Larissa Iapichino additionally beginning 2026 as they imply to go on within the excessive soar and lengthy soar respectively.

Competing on dwelling soil, the Ukrainian Olympic champion cleared 2.03m along with her third try on the Demyanyuk Memorial in Lviv, her highest soar since setting the world report of two.10m in the summertime of 2024. 

Italy’s Iapichino additionally shone on dwelling turf, the European indoor champion leaping 6.93m on the Alessio Giovannini Memorial assembly in Ancona to report her longest ever season-opener, a distance that’s simply 4 centimetres wanting her indoor finest. 

There was no scarcity of sprints motion over the weekend, both, with British teenager Jake Odey-Jordan in record-breaking kind on Saturday. The 18-year-old clocked 32.64 over 300m on the Virginia Showcase assembly to decrease Robert Tobin’s nationwide mark of 32.76 from 2006.

Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles additionally started his indoor season over 300m – his first race over the gap since 2017 –  successful on the Carnes Invitational in Florida with a time of 32.60 seconds to edge out Ace Malone (32.70) and George Franks (32.88).

In the meantime, on the Corky Basic in Texas, British record-holder Dina Asher-Smith opened her season with a run of seven.18 within the ladies’s 60m, beating her coaching accomplice Semira Killebrew (7.31).

Jamaica’s Olympic and world 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson began his 12 months with an out of doors 60m win of 6.52 on the Puma JAAA Fuller Anderson Improvement Meet in Spanish City. Olympic 100m finalist Tia Clayton clocked 7.02 within the ladies’s occasion.