Global Athletics Championships: Ciara Mageean says she will deliver 'everything' in the 1500m final
Global Athletics Championships: Ciara Mageean says she will deliver 'everything' in the 1500m final.
Ciara Mageean says she can 'give it the whole lot' after turning into the first Irish female to reach the arena 1500m final in 22 years.
The Portaferry runner completed fifth in Thursday's semi-final to secure an area in Saturday's very last at the arena Athletics Championships in Doha. "i'm going to war to the line, i am going to provide it the whole lot," she told Athletics ireland. "in the event that they throw a slow tempo at me or a fast tempo at me, i'll be geared up." Mageean ran a time of four:15.Forty nine to grow to be the primary Irish woman given that Sonia O'Sullivan in 1997 to reach the arena 1500m very last. O'Sullivan completed eighth in Athens.
In Thursday's semi-final, Britain's Sarah McDonald and Mageean emerged at the the front of the % within the starting levels. Mageean, 26, battled tough to finish fifth, with McDonald in sixth and even as the Irish athlete described the race as 'strange', she become understandably overjoyed having safely stepped forward. "i have an awful lot of appreciate for the ladies," delivered Mageean. "The ladies's 1500m is red-warm - every body who follows athletics knows that, but they should respect me too.
"i was walking these days love it was my final." Mageean is going in the 1500m very last at 18:fifty five BST on Saturday. Britain's Laura Muir will be lining up against Mageean, with 2017 international champion religion Kipyegon and these days crowned 10,000m global champion Sifan Hassan additionally among the startlist.