Adeleke clinches 400m silver for Ireland in Rome

Ireland's Rhasidat Adeleke clinched nan metallic badge successful nan women's 400 metres last astatine nan European Championships successful Rome aft being pipped for golden by Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek.

Adeleke, 21, clocked a caller Irish grounds of 49.07 seconds which trim 0.13 seconds disconnected her erstwhile individual champion but was edged retired by nan Pole who produced a 2024 world starring clip of 48.98.

Kaczmarek, 26, took metallic astatine past year's World Championships erstwhile nan Irishwoman was 4th but Adeleke still went into nan Rome last arsenic a marginal favourite.

The duo were good clear of section arsenic they reached nan location consecutive but Kaczmarek produced nan stronger decorativeness to separator nan victory.

Dubliner Adeleke was hoping to triumph her country's 3rd golden successful Rome aft being portion of Ireland's victorious 4x400m mixed relay squad connected Friday

Ciara Mageean landed Ireland's 2nd Rome golden erstwhile she clinched nan women's 1500m title connected Sunday night.

Dutch female Lieke Klaver clocked 50.08 seconds to triumph nan bronze pinch Adeleke's Irish team-mate Sharlene Mawdsley, who was besides portion of nan mixed relay squad, finishing a somewhat disappointing eighth successful 51.59 seconds.

Earlier, Ireland's Andrew Coscoran produced a beardown tally to suffice for nan men's 1500m last but teen Nick Griggs missed out.

Coscoran faded aft starring his power connected nan first thigh successful Rome but his clip of 3 minutes 38.52 seconds was capable to unafraid qualification successful 5th place.

Norway's reigning Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen won nan power up of nan final, which takes spot connected Wednesday evening (21:26 BST).

Griggs, 19, was 14th pinch a clip of 3:45.66 successful his heat, which was won by Great Britain's Neil Gourley.

There was disappointment for Irish duo Phil Healy and Louise Shanahan, who missed retired connected qualification successful nan women's 200m and 800m respectively. Healy clocked 23.51 to decorativeness 5th successful nan 200m heats while Shanahan bowed retired of nan 800m aft finishing sixth successful her power successful 2:04.81.

Thomas Barr, who helped Ireland to a historical mixed relay golden badge connected Friday, was knocked retired of nan men's 400m hurdles semi-finals.

With nan apical 2 automatically qualifying, 31-year-old Barr vanished 3rd successful 49.61, missing retired connected nan last by 0.04 of a second.

Nicola Tuthill is besides successful action successful nan women's hammer propulsion last connected Monday evening.