Ireland’s Geraldine Hendricken and Maria Lynch failed to qualify from their heats of the Women’s 1500m at the European Championships in Munich this morning.
Hendricken (32), running in the second heat, finished eighth behind Turkey’s Sureyya Ayhan in a time of 4:18.13.
Dundrum athlete Lynch (24) finished eighth in the final heat, recording a time of 4:14.41. Romania’s Gabriela Szabo finished second to Tatyana Tomashova and is safely through to the next round.
Peter Coughlan, ranked ninth in Europe, finished fifth in his heat of the 110m hurdles and will not progress to the next round.
1,500 metres results
1st rd Heat 1
1. Judit Varga (Hun) 4min 07.71sec Q
2. Daniela Yordanova (Bul) 4:07.76 Q
3. Iris Fuentes-Pila (Spa) 4:07.89 Q
4. Kelly Holmes (Gbr) 4:08.11
5. Elena Iagar (Rom) 4:09.37
6. Yekaterina Puzanova (Rus) 4:11.49
7. Maria Tsirba (Gre) 4:12.75
8. Trine Pilskog (Nor) 4:13.84
9. Rasa Drazdauskaite (Lit) 4:16.80
10. Anjolie Wisse (Ned) 4:17.89
Heat 2
1. Sureyya Ayhan (Tur) 4:04.42 Q
2. Irina Lishchinkska (Ukr) 4:08.89 Q
3. Natalia Rodriguez (Spa) 4:08.91 Q
4. Kathleen Friedrich (Ger) 4:08.98
5. Helen Pattinson (Gbr) 4:09.66
6. Lena Nilsson (Swe) 4:09.89
7. Veerie Dejaeghere (Bel) 4:10.88
8. Geraldine Hendricken (Irl) 4:18.13
9. Helena Javornik (Slo) 4:18.46
10. Livia Toth (Hun) 4:19.53
11. Sara Palmas (Ita) 4:28.31
Heat 3
1. Tatyana Tomashova (Rus) 4:05.04 Q
2. Gabriela Szabo (Rom) 4:05.14 Q
3. Nuria Fernandez (Spa) 4:05.42 Q
4. Carla Sacramento (Por) 4:05.70 q
5. Alesya Turova (Blr) 4:05.75 q
6. Lidia Chojecka (Pol) 4:05.78 q
7. Hayley Tullett (Gbr) 4:10.68
8. Maria Lynch (Irl) 4:14.41
9. Heidi Jensen (Den) 4:16.01
10. Kristin Roset (Nor) 4:17.40
11. Sonja Roman (Slo) 4:19.87
Men's 110m Hurdles, 1st rd, Heat 4
1 S Olijars (Lat) 13.50 Q
2 Tony Jarrett (Gbr) 13.63 Q
3 Levente Csillag (Hun) 13.88
4 Marko Ritola (Fin) 13.90
5 Peter Coghlan (Irl) 13.96
6 Nenad Loncar (Yug) 14.19