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Seventh also for Lucy-May Sleeman, Ciara Neville, Sarah Leahy and Lauren Roy in the women's 4x100m.

Seventh place for Bori Akinola, Sean Aigboboh, Marcus Lawler and Israel Olatunde in the 4x100m relay final. Almost a disaster on the first changeover, but there was no way they weren't getting that baton around!

We should have these home championships more often. Andrew Coscoran has jumped aboard the medal bus with a patiently won 1500m bronze.

Jack O'Leary finished 10th in the 10,000m in Birmingham.

Kate O'Connor: European champion!

Another beautiful 4x100m relay performance, with Bori Akinola, Sean Aigboboh, Marcus Lawler and Israel Olatunde running 39.13 to reach tonight's final. Massive night coming up in the Alex!

Kate O'Connor threw 50.16m in the heptathlon javelin, and currently sits in first place with just the 800m to go.

There will be two Irish women in tomorrow's 1500m final after Sarah Healy and Sophie O'Sullivan qualified from heat 2. Jodie McCann finished 13th in heat 1.

The Irish women finally landed that final baton change, and the result is a new national record of 43.13 (previous best 43.73), and a place in the European final for Lucy-May Sleemen, Ciara Neville, Sarah Leahy and Lauren Roy.

Kate O'Connor jumped 6.55m (+2.0) PB in the Long Jump in Birmingham. That's a personal best, moving her to up to third on the Irish all-time list. National record watch is officially over, but Gold medal watch is very much on. (For a Hep record not to be wind-aided, the average wind for the 100m hurdles, 200m and long jump needs to be <2.0m/s. Kate needed a wind of +1.3 or less this morning to have a wind-legal performance overall).

European 800m Champion Mark English is on the startlist for next Friday's Lausanne Diamond League.

6th for David Kenny in the Half Marathon Walk in Birmingham with 1:24:49. Oisin Lane finished 11th in 1:27:09. The times for both David and Oisin will count as personal bests, which is unsurprising for such a new event, and David's time may well be ratified as a national record. And Oisin went through 20km in 1:22:44, which is faster than his 20km of 1:23:06, and faster than Jimmy McDonald and Jamie Costin (1:22.45) who sit =5th on the Irish all-time list!

The walks are underway in Birmingham. Plenty else to follow today, not least from an Irish perspective.

23.79w (+3.4m/s) for Kate O'Connor in the 200m. She's now 20 points ahead of her national record pace at the end of day 1.

20th for Fiona Everard in the 10,000m in Birmingham in 33:08.60. Niamh Allen did not finish.

13.96 for Kate O'Connor in the shot put. A little short of what she threw in Tokyo, but no disaster. She's 7 points short of her Tokyo/NR total after 3 events.

More athletics coming up from 7:35pm, where Kate O'Connor will be taking on the heptathlon shot put and 200m, Fiona Everard and Niamh Allen will be running 25 laps of the track, as well as men's HJ, 400m hurdles & 200m finals, and women's Discus and 800m finals.

Kate O'Connor equalled her PB of 1.86 in the High Jump, so she's still 21 points up on her own national record from Tokyo last year, and has gained some important relative ground on her main rivals.

Andrew Coscoran is safely through to the 1500m final. Cathal Doyle fell in his heat.

Away from Birmingham, Charlie O'Donovan added another mile win to his collection at the West Chester Mile in the US last night. His winning time was 3:56.11.

3:01.76 and 11th overall for the Irish men's 4x400m relay team of Andrew Egan, Jack Raftery, Joe Doody and Sean Doggett. That's the 3rd fastest time ever by an Irish quartet, not far outside the 3:01.26 Irish record, and less than half a second off the qualification spots.

13.30 PB (+1.3m/s) for Kate O'Connor in the 100m Hurdles. She's 21 points up on her own Irish heptathlon record after the first event, and moves to =4th on the Irish all-time list for the hurdles.

Medals at Euro Indoors, World Indoors, Worlds, Commonwealth Games and World University Games... can Kate O'Connor take one step closer to completing the collection? She gets her European campaign underway shortly in Birmingham.

European silver in the 200m for Rhasidat Adeleke, with a national record of 22.28 (+0.7).

Mark English: European 800m champion.

Sean Aigboboh ran 20.46w (+2.9 m/s) to finish 4th in his semi-final and 12th fastest overall in the men's 200m. Marcus Lawler was 24th overall with 21.11 (+1.6 m/s).

Marcus Lawler qualified to race alongside Sean Aigboboh in the 200m semi-finals later today with a 5th-place finish (20.94, -0.4) in this morning's heats.

Nicola Tuthill finished 5th in the hammer at the European Championships with 70.33m. That's top 10 for both the Irish throwers in Birmingham.

Nicola Tuthill lies in 5th place after 3 rounds of the hammer final. She'll get 3 more throws and is guaranteed a top-8 finish. Don't forget that there is a dedicated hammer throw stream on Eurovision Sport if you'd like to watch the closing stages of that competition.

Semi-final win and championship record of 1:43.49 for Mark English in Birmingham. He's through to another European final (and he has won a medal in all 5 European finals he has made up to now - 3 indoors and 2 outdoors). Lauren Roy earlier qualified to join Rhasidat Adeleke in this evening's 200m semi-finals. She finished 4th in her heat and 6th across the 3 heats with 23.20 (-0.9m/s).

52.28 SB for Sophie Becker to finish 3rd in her 400m heat in Birmingham. With just 6 athletes being eliminated at this phase, that should be enough to see her into the semi finals.

Five Irish athletes are competing in Birmingham today, with Sophie Becker up first in the 400m heats where 13 of the 19 participants will qualify for the semi-finals! Note that this evening's RTÉ coverage is on RTÉ News, not RTÉ 2.

Jack Raftery followed up his 45.81 in lane 3 in the 400m heats yesterday with, yes you've guessed it, 45.81 in lane 3 in the semi-finals today!

Bori Akinola 4th (10.38; -1.7) and Israel Olatunde 6th (10.49; -0.6) in the 100m semi-finals in Birmingham.

Sarah Healy 4th in the 5000m final in Birmingham.

Sarah Healy is the first of the Irish up in this evening's session. She goes in the 5000m final at 7.25pm

10.39 (-2.8m/s) for Bork Akinola in heat 2 in Birmingham. He'll join Israel Olatunde in tonight's semi-finals as fastest of the heat qualifiers.

Bori Akinola is the only Irish athlete in action this morning. His 100m heat is at 11.22am.

Nicola Tuthill made it through to Wednesday's hammer final with a best of 70.09m. That's 2/2 to finals for the field eventers!

Congratulations to Abbie Sheridan on making her Irish senior debut, and running under 10 minutes in the 3000m steeplechase heats (9:57.50 for 14th in heat 2), a time she'd never broken before this season.

Eric Favors finished 10th in the shot put in Birmingham with a third-round best of 19.59m.

Nick Griggs 8th (13:21.07), Brian Fay 14th (13:31.15) and Darragh McElhinney 18th (13:37.62) in the 5000m final in Birmingham.

Reminder: athletics action being shown on both RTÉ and Eurovision Sport.

Considerable season's best/national lead of 13.07 (+0.6) for Sarah Lavin in the heats of the 100m Hurdles, but that won't be enough to get her to the semi-finals.

A throw of 19.54m was enough for Eric Favors to secure the 12th and final spot in tonight's Shot Put final!

Good run by Jack Raftery to finish 2nd in his 400m heat in 45.81. He finished 9th overall to qualify for tomorrow evening's semi finals.

Ciara Neville benefited from a +3.2 following wind in the heats of the women's 100m. She finished 5th in her heat in 11.29w and 10th across the heats to secure a SF spot. Lauren Roy just missed out, 15th overall (11.32, +1.8), with 12 going through.

Mark English safely through to the 800m semi-finals, winning his heat in 1:46.96. Cian McPhillips will not advance after finishing 7th in his heat in 1:46.86. He reportedly had a virus last week.

Note that the athletics not been shown on RTÉ is available on Eurovision Sport. The main stream is currently available with Mark English on the startline.

The one we've all been waiting for is here! European Championships action from 10:30am this morning, with Mark English the first Irish athlete in heat 1 of the 800m at 10:45. This morning's action is live on RTÉ 2 and RTÉ Player, with dedicated field event streams on Eurovision Sport.

Fabulous 5th for Ethan Dewhirst in the 400m Hurdles final in 51.05 at the World U20 championships in Eugene (from lane 1, too). Siún Quinn cleared a personal best of 1.87 =NL, =6th Irish all-time to finish 6th in the High Jump final.

Shay McEvoy won the Men's A 3000m at the BMC GP at St. Mary's in 8:00.19. Tony McCambridge was second with 8:05.11.

3:38.23 PB for Callum Morgan in the B 1500m at the BMC meeting at St Mary's.

The final session of World U20 Championships is just about to get underway in Eugene. Siún Quinn (high jump, 8.30pm) and Ethan Dewhirst (400m hurdles, 9.40pm) go in their respective finals soonish.

Sophie O'Sullivan won the women's A 800m at the BMC Grand Prix at St Mary's in 1:59.63 NL, 3rd Irish all-time list, and her first time sub-2.

Massive PB of 11.56 (+1.5) for Orla Comerford in Stratford today (previous best 11.72). Because it wasn't a para race, it won't better her European T13 record, but it will move her to =22nd on the Irish all-time list.

The big jumps keep coming: 6.51w (+3.2) for Ruby Millet at the National League final in Santry today.

Great night for the Irish in Eugene, with four athletes securing top-20 finishes at the World U20 Championships. Ethan Dewhirst (50.53 Q) qualified for the 400m Hurdles final, finishing third in his semi-final. Des O'Neill ran 51.28 PB to finish 16th overall in the same event. Ellis McHugh ran 58.49 PB to finish 15th overall in the women's 400mH. Eoin O'Callaghan finished 19th in the decathlon with 7159 points. Dewhirst (9:40pm) and Siún Quinn (High Jump; 8:30pm) go in their respective finals later today.