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The national record has been broken in Bern, Switzerland.
Ciara Mageean has become the first Irish woman to run a sub-two minute 8-hundred metres.
She won in Bern this evening in a time of 1-minute 59-point-6-9 seconds.
Mageean’s taken just over a second off Rose Anne Galligan’s previous national best.