European Masters Indoors 2022 (21st / 26th Feb)

Double European Masters Champion – 3,000m track walk & 5k road walk

Double European Masters Gold for Sean McMullin

Ireland had a big team of 100 athletes, including Sean McMullin, among the nearly 2,400 entrants for the European Masters Indoors in Braga, Portugal. Sean was entered in the 3,000m race walk on Monday afternoon 21st February and the 5k road walk on Saturday morning 26th February.

While all around him in the 3,000m indoor walk at the magnificent Altice Forum Indoor Stadium on Monday afternoon many were receiving warnings, and there was even a disqualification, Sean kept his composure and with a faultless display and great determination he stuck firmly to his race plan to slowly increase his lead lap after lap, pulling well clear to win with a big margin of nearly a half lap and taking the European Title. After the medal ceremony, Sean could relax and recover for the 5k road walk on Saturday morning.

Even though it was an indoor Championship, there were still road walks on the programme, and showing no sign of fatigue from his victory over 3,000m on the track five days earlier, Sean lined up early on Saturday morning in Picoto Park only a few minutes from the stadium for the 5k road walk. With another faultless display, Sean raced to victory with a huge margin of over two minutes to win his second European Masters title in a week. A fantastic reward for the all the hard work in training over a long time preparing for these Championships.