Sarah Lavin won her heat of the 60m hurdles in cool and confident style
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There was no Rhasidat Adeleke this time, her focus firmly on the summer ahead. Things started positively when 17-year-old Conor Kelly ran a superb opening 200m, only to lose some ground at the break, before dropped back to sixth. Phil Healy, running her fifth consecutive European Indoors, briefly moved Ireland up to fifth, before Lawler also tried in vain to make up some real ground.
“I know I opened well this season, but I had a tricky time after that, so I’m happy. I love championships, love how immersive they are. There’s only a few of them a year and I love to maximise them. There’s no time to think in races like that, but I know that’s in me, and hopefully more to come.”endured a tactical nightmare in his heat of the 1,500m, allowing himself to make some minor contact with Jakob Ingebrigtsen just as the race was hotting up after 900m and coming out the worse for it.
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