Portaferry native Ciara Mageean in confident mood and targeting a gold medal in the European 1,500m final
Ciara Mageean: former silver medalist in action in her heat as she qualified for the 1500m final at the European Athletics Championships at the Stadio Olympico, Rome. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/InphoIf both Ciara Mageean and Sarah Healy made qualifying for the European 1,500 metres final look relatively easy, Sunday night’s medal showdown is poised to be a far different sort of challenge.
In both races, only the top six went through to the final, and part of the challenge for Mageean is to deal with that finishing speed of Reekie, the 26-year-old already winning 800m silver at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March, and recently winning an 800m in Stockholm in 1:57.79. “I feel like I’m coming into this championship as a favourite, which is something I’ve probably never been before, that comes with some added pressure, but not as much pressure as I put on myself . . . and it would be an absolute dream to hear Amhrán na bhFiann blasting around that stadium.”
“I’m really excited about that, it feels like there’s no pressure,” Healy said of her first senior final, her experience and confidence also growing all the time. “It’s only upside, so I’ll see what I can do.” “It went exactly as I thought it would, but it was tough out there to try to do that,” said English, who won 800m bronze in 2014 and again last time out in 2022.
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