Ciara Mageean has just missed out on a medal at the World Championships
She was fourth in the final of the 15-hundred metres in Budapest on Tuesday evening.
Mageean shaved 2-hundredths of a second off her own national record, but was still over half a second off a bronze medal.
Mark English ran a season’s best to progress to the 800-metre semi-finals as one of three fastest losers.
The Finn Valley man
finished 4th in Heat 2 and missed out on an automatic qualifying place but his time of 1:45.71 seen him over the line as an non-automatic qualifier.
The 800 semi-final takes place on Thursday evening.
Highland’s Athletic Correspondent Patsy McGonagle says it was a determined Mark on track on Tuesday evening.
Sarah Lavin qualified automatically for the semi-finals of the 100-metre hurdles.
She was third in her heat, in a time of 12-point-6-9 seconds – just 4-hundreths off the Irish record of Derval O’Rourke.
