Ciara Mageean

Ciara Mageean goes in the final of the 1500m at the European Championships in Munich this evening. The 30-year-old is going great guns at the minute having ...

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Ciara Mageean is aiming for gold when she runs in the 1,500 metres final at the European Championships on Friday evening. The Co Down native secured her ...

To have that third one, I messaged my teammates, ‘Great, here’s another period for the month." "I’m always happy to discuss it, it’s an important thing to discuss. "I was on my third period of the month going into the Commonwealth Games," she said. Mageean got the virus ahead of the national championships and had to sit them out and, while she had to take 10 days off, she looks back on that as maybe a blessing in disguise having already made the tough decision to sit out the World Championships in Oregon around that time. "It was certainly something that affected me directly in the build-up to the Commonwealth Games." She told reporters in Munich ahead of the race: "I believe I’m one of the best athletes in that field and I’m going to go out and prove it.

The Portaferry woman produced a season's best time of 4:02.56 behind GB's Laura Muir and over a second ahead of the fancied Sofia Ennaoui of Poland.

Mageean had done all she could and tipped a metaphorical hat to the winner afterwards. It’s what I wrote in my training diary today. It’s everything I want, to see that Irish flag raised." “It’s been a fantastic season so far. This time Mageean was eventually burned off. Ciara Mageean wasn’t shy in declaring her intentions for tonight’s European Championship 1,500m final.

Ireland's Ciara Mageean has won the silver medal in the women's 1500m final at the European Championships in Munich.

"Going into it, I ran the heats as if it was a final and I said the same thing for the semis. So I knew that gap would open eventually and to be honest, I couldn't believe when it did then and that there weren't more people flying down the outside." Obviously you have to come out and do it but the focus now is on the race tomorrow," Healy told RTÉ Sport. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. [who ran a new national record to finish sixth in the first ever appearance by an Irishman in the 100m final at a European Athletics Championships on Tuesday](https://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2022/0816/1316141-grateful-olatunde-insists-he-can-get-even-better/), was on the opening leg and blasted out of the blocks. It was a clean handover to Smyth and the Raheny Shamrock man ran a fine leg, but with Ireland well positioned in the top three, the baton was dropped in the handover to Leevale's Doyle. I can't believe it. The Tokyo Olympian took her place in the opening semi-final after running 2:02.80 on Thursday and, in a stacked field, powered to the finish line with superb final 100m to cross the line in third in 2:01.15. The 19-year-old handed over to Mawdsley (52.58) with a significant advantage and while the European Championship debutant held firm over the first 250m, she tired significantly in the final 50m to allow the Netherlands squeeze home on the line, with Ireland securing an automatic place into the final and a national record. The Letterkenny man put in a controlled displays of running to book his spot in the final as an automatic qualifier, finishing in third place in a time of 1:46.66. Muir, who beat Mageean for the gold at the Commonwealth Games, ran a very similar race to that final, taking over the lead at the midway stage and pulling away but like that recent final in Birmingham, Mageean kept pace with her. The Portaferry woman came into the final heavily tipped for a medal and she showed her intent from the very start as she burst to the front on the first lap.

Ireland's Ciara Mageean put in a superb performance to secure a silver medal in the women's 1500m final at the European Championships.

Mageean is the first Irish athlete to win a medal at the 2022 edition of the European Athletics Championships. Ireland's Ciara Mageean put in a superb performance to secure a silver medal in the women’s 1500m final at the European Championships in Munich. The Irish woman ultimately finished 1.48 seconds behind the winner in what was a thrilling end to the race.

Just beforehand, Mark English qualified for the 800m final as an automatic qualifier.

Looking cool and confident, he hugged the inside and was fourth at the halfway point, showing tactical awareness before cruising home. A real dogfight unfolded just like their recent Commonwealth Games showdown, the pair neck-in-neck in battle. Setting off from Lane 6, English and co. Sofia Ennaoui of Poland took bronze in 4:03.59. [https://t.co/XnOP6grnB7] [pic.twitter.com/T8p4g7bq8I] [August 19, 2022] [Like the semi-final](https://www.the42.ie/ciara-marean-european-championships-1500m-5841658-Aug2022/), in which she also recorded a season’s best and was edged out only by Ennaoui, she moved to the top with a nice pace set. [@CiaraMageean]takes a silver medal with a magnificent run at the European Championships 1500m, GB's Laura Muir taking gold

She previously claimed bronze medals at European indoor and outdoor championships.The 30-year-old also finished tenth in the world 1,500 metre final in 2019.

Mageean was just over a second behind the gold of Laura Muir. She finished over a second ahead of the fancied Sofia Ennaoui of Poland. She took silver in the women’s 1,500 metres tonight in Munich, running a season’s best time of 4:02.56.

An emotional Ciara Mageean celebrated her silver medal success at the European Championships and warned gold medallist Laura Muir that she has her in her ...

"Racing the athletes out there today, in particular Laura and Sofia Ennaoui, I knew that it was going to be tough. "I did exactly what myself and my coach said I would, I stayed a hell of a lot closer to her than in the Commonwealth Games. My time will come. "Laura used a similar tactic to the Commonwealth Games and I thought that was going to happen. It’s absolutely fantastic." Speaking to RTÉ Sport, Mageean was unable to contain her joy and said: "I feel like I very rarely get emotional in athletics but with the year that I've had, I was going around there, seeing all at the tricolours and I’m feeling a bit emotional.