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Jason on the way to 60m gold.

Eglinton sprinter Jason Smyth set a new meeting record in winning the 60 metres gold medal at the World Indoor Games for the disabled in Bolinas, Sweden.

Smyth’s 6.92 seconds clocking also shaved a hundredth of a second off Jeff Pamplin’s 14-year-old Irish Junior (U20) record.

Smyth who is jointly Ireland’s most subsidised athlete with a grant allocation of €40,000 this year, had an eight-hundredths of a second margin to spare at the tape over former Paralympics gold-medallist Royal Mitchell of the United States.

Smyth could have gone for the double over 200 metre but on the advice of his coach, Stephen Maguire, opted out of the furlong event.

The success of the City of Derry athlete also caps an extraordinary two weeks for Maguire.  During the week the Strabane man was confirmed as Athletics Ireland's new director of coaching.

Days earlier 42-year-old Maguire had been named as Northern Ireland's sports coach of the year.

There were other Irish medallists with Clareman Derek Malone adding to his status as a world class disabled athlete when he took the Classes 36/38 400 metres title in 55.89 seconds.

Earlier James McCarthy from Limerick had given the Irish the best possible start with a gold medal heave in the F57 class shot putt.