Mageean wins first major title at the age of 32

Ireland's Ciara Mageean clinched her first awesome title astatine nan property of 32 arsenic she won nan 1500m title astatine nan European Championships successful Rome.

Mageean, who won bronze and metallic medals astatine erstwhile European Championships, held her nervus successful a tactical conflict to find a mini spread betwixt Great Britain duo Georgia Bell and Jemma Reekie pinch 90 metres left.

The region Down woman's triumph continued Irish occurrence astatine nan championships aft Friday night's 4x400m mixed relay triumph which was nan country's first European golden since 1998.

Mageean crossed nan statement successful 4 minutes 4.66 seconds which near her 0.67 seconds clear of Great Britain's Bell.

France's Agathe Guillemot was a further 0.36 seconds backmost successful 3rd arsenic 800m master Reekie faded to 5th spot pinch Mageean's Irish team-mate Sarah Healy successful seventh.

The British duo attempted to power nan title by going to nan beforehand instantly and past slowing nan gait and for overmuch of nan title Mageean founded herself boxed down nan starring pair.

However, Mageean managed to find a way betwixt nan Britons arsenic they entered nan location consecutive and erstwhile she moved ahead, location was only going to beryllium 1 winner.

"Words can't moreover travel adjacent to describing what this means," Mageean told RTE Sport aft her triumph.

"People cognize really agelong I've been doing this and really difficult I've been trying."

There will beryllium precocious hopes of further successful Monday night's 400m last wherever mixed relay heroes Rhasidat Adeleke and Sharlene Mawdsley will beryllium successful action.

Adeleke, whose individual champion of 49.20 seconds marks her retired arsenic 1 of nan golden badge favourites and a genuine Olympic contender, cruised into Monday evening's last by winning her power successful 50.54 arsenic she was 0.19 seconds up of Great Britain's Laviai Nielson.

Mawdsley reached nan decider by clocking 50.99 - her 2nd champion ever clip - arsenic she took 2nd spot 0.42 seconds down Dutch jock Lieke Klaver.

The 3rd Irish hopeful Sophie Becker missed retired connected clinching a last spot arsenic she was 4th successful her semi-final successful 51.54 seconds arsenic Poland's metallic medallist from 2 years agone Natalia Kaczmarek took triumph successful 50.70.

Sligo man Chris O'Donnell, nan 4th personnel of nan victorious mixed relay squad, vanished 4th successful his 400m semi-final successful 45.72 seconds which wouldn't person been capable to scope nan last but was past disqualified for a lane infringement.

In nan greeting session, different personnel of Ireland's golden badge quartet from Friday night, Thomas Barr besides continued his awesome championships by reaching nan 400m hurdles semi-finals.

Barr, who won bronze successful nan hurdles arena astatine nan 2018 championships, was nan fastest of nan competitors successful nan first information arsenic he won his power successful a season's champion of 49.31 seconds.

The Waterford man, 31, will now subordinate nan seeded athletes successful Monday's semi-finals.

Mark Smyth and Nicola Tuthill progressed from their opening qualifiers successful Sunday morning's session.

Raheny Shamrocks sprinter Smyth clocked a 200ms season's champion of 20.93 seconds successful nan greeting heats to advancement to nan semi-finals wherever he improved that clip of 20.86.

Tuthill, 20, was seventh of nan 12 qualifiers for Monday's hammer last aft producing a champion propulsion of 69.85m pinch her last effort.

North Belfast jock Emily Haggard-Kearney vanished 64th successful nan women's half marathon successful 1:17.04 - 30 places down Shona Heaslip who clocked 1:12.19, while Hiko Tonosa took 43rd successful nan men's arena successful 1:05.42.