There’s another busy day in store for Team Ireland at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.
Bori Akinola goes in round one of the men’s 100-metres just before half 11 this morning
He’ll be bidding to join Israel Olatunde in this evening’s semi-finals.
Also tonight, Sarah Healy will compete in the Women’s 5-thousand metres final at 7:25.
And Jack Raftery is in the Men’s 400m semi-final just before ten-past-nine
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Last night, Nick Griggs lost one of his shoes finishing 8th in the final of the men’s 5-thousand metres.
Norwegian superstar Jakob Ingebrigtsen (pr: ya-cub in-ge-britts-in) produced a sensational final sprint to take the gold.
Brian Fay finished 13th, while Darragh McElhinney crossed the line in 18th.
Nicola Tuthill threw a season’s best 70-point-zero-9 metres to qualify for Wednesday’s final in the women’s hammer throw.
Eric Favors came 10th in the men’s shot put.
Sarah Lavin missed out on a place in the semi-finals of the women’s 100-metres hurdles, finishing sixth in her heat.
