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This was a mild first morning for the Irish at the U18 European Championships in Athletics in Gyor, Hungary on Thursday, with Patience Jumbo-Gula producing the choice of the best performances in the world. team.
Sarah Glennon (Mullingar Harriers) and Emily MacHugh (Naas) began to interest the Irish in the 5 km girls race
Glennon finished 12th in 25: 36.73 while MacHugh was disqualified.
Simone Lalor (St Laurence O-Toole) ran 56.96 in the 400m innings and narrowly missed a place for the semi-finals
Miranda Cheutchoua (Lusk) ninth in hammer group B and 21st overall with best throw of 58.31m
There was, however, good news for the Irish in the men's and women's 100m with the three advancing athletes.
Conor Morey (Leevale) was fourth in series 2 in 11.05, progressing to the fastest qualifier, while Israel Olatunde (Dundealgan) was third in series 3 in 10.77 to qualify automatically. ] Ireland @Patience_Jumbo impressed in the 100m events of the Under-18 European Championships, winning four wins in 11.80 against a headwind of 1 , 7 m / s. pic.twitter.com/0a6xkueEF0
– European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) 5 July 2018
Jumbo-Gula (St Gerard's Dundalk) had a brilliant victory in heat 4 of the 100m girls in 11.80 in a wind of -1.7. All three will participate in tonight's semi-finals
Conor Cusack (Lake Districts) finished ninth in group A of the javelin with a best result of 63.07m.
Also in competition tonight will be Sophie O. Sullivan (Ballymore Cobh) – daughter of Sonia – and Molly Brown (MSB) in the women's 800m heats [19659003] There is also a duo in the women's long jump with Sophie Meredith (St Mary's) in Group A and Ruby Millet (St Abban & # 39; s) ) in the Group B.
The 1500m for the boys has the qualification fixed to the first four and following four fastest for the final with Cian McPhillips (Longford) in heat 1 and Brian Maguire (DSD) in heat 2.
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