Cathal Doyle hopes to make the 1,500m final against Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Irish athletes David Bosch, Conor Kelly, Cathal Doyle, Marcus Lawlor, Lauren Cadden, Sharlene Mawdsley, Phil Healy and Rachel McCann at the Omnisport Arena in Apeldoorn, Netherlands on Wednesday. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
The team of 19 Irish athletes certainly arrived with plenty of medal-winning potential. The team came home empty-handed in 2021 and 2023, but this year four Irish athletes are ranked in top three positions among the final entries, based on European indoor performances this season. They are Sarah Healy and Kate O’Connor , with Andrew Coscoran and Mark English ranked third in the 3,000m and 800m respectively.
Several Irish athletes will be making their European Indoor debut, including Bori Akinola, the 23-year-old fresh from winning his first national senior 60m title last month, and Cathal Doyle, the 27-year-old from Dublin who can boast about winning a race at the Olympics. That came in Paris in the new repechage round of the 1,500m, where Doyle, after finishing ninth in his heat, usurped a field of mostly faster runners. He then ran a lifetime best of 3:33.
Ingebrigtsen is in Apeldoorn chasing a third successive 1,500m/3,000m double, having also won 3,000m gold in 2019 at age 18. Doyle is more concerned about making the final, Thursday’s heats sure to create fireworks. Since Paris, Doyle has signed a professional deal with Nike, and the Clonliffe runner is now coached by Jon Bigg, whose training group is based in Brighton. “I think it’s more confirmation to myself that, okay, all the work I’ve done and the sacrifices I’ve made, it wasn’t all for nothing,” he says. “Other than that, nothing has actually changed, I’ve always taken the training and everything serious.
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