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| Brian Gregan |
Donor Harriers Brian Gregan has once again proven he is one
of the top sprinters in Europe by making it to the Semi-Finals of the Men’s
400m at the World Athletics Championships in London.
He was a tad unlucky to be drawn in what was deemed the much harder Semi-Final, which contained the bulk of the medal favourites, including the eventual Gold Medal winner Wayde Van Niekerk of South Africa.
Gregan was in fine form coming into the Semi-Final after finishing third in his previous heat with a time of 45.37s, which was just 11 hundreths of a second off his Personal Best he set in Morton Stadium just a few weeks back.
To underline just how competitive the Semi-Final race was, Gregan finished ahead of Olympic Bronze Medallist LaShawn Merritt.
While obviously any athlete would be disappointed to not make a World Championship Final, Gregan will still be very happy at his time of 45.42 seconds, which left him in sixth place, just outside a qualifying berth for the final.
He was a tad unlucky to be drawn in what was deemed the much harder Semi-Final, which contained the bulk of the medal favourites, including the eventual Gold Medal winner Wayde Van Niekerk of South Africa.
Gregan was in fine form coming into the Semi-Final after finishing third in his previous heat with a time of 45.37s, which was just 11 hundreths of a second off his Personal Best he set in Morton Stadium just a few weeks back.
To underline just how competitive the Semi-Final race was, Gregan finished ahead of Olympic Bronze Medallist LaShawn Merritt.
While obviously any athlete would be disappointed to not make a World Championship Final, Gregan will still be very happy at his time of 45.42 seconds, which left him in sixth place, just outside a qualifying berth for the final.
Given his riveting performances at the World Championships,
and performances in the Diamond League meetings these past 12 months, the
Tallaght man will be one of the favourites to take gold at the European
Athletics Championships in Berlin a year from now.
Also competing for Ireland was Ratharnham WSAF’s Seán Hehir,
who finished in 63rd place in the Men’s Marathon with a time of 2
hours 27 minutes, and Dundrum South Dublin’s Siofra Cleirigh-Buttner who finished 6th in heat 5 of the Women's 800m.
She was over 2 seconds off an automatic qualifying place with a time of 2:06:54
