On Sunday the 25th of October 2020, Tommy Hughes won the Lisburn Festival of Running marathon to finish in a time of 2 hours 30 minutes and 02 seconds. This works out as an average pace of 5m 44s per mile for the 26.2 mile distance. Just seven athletes were able to compete in the race due to current COVID-19 restrictions.
This time was a new world record for the M60 category (Male 60 years and over) and was over six minutes faster than the previous record of 2h 36m 30s set by Yoshihisa Hosaka of Japan in 2009.
Tommy who is from Bangor in Co.Down represented Ireland in the marathon at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and has a marathon best time of 2h 13m 59s.
He also set a new M60 for the Half-Marathon last September with a time of 71 min 09 sec. In 2019, he set a new M55 marathon world record when he ran 2h 27m 52s in Franfurt.
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