O’Connor’s team-mates Andrew Coscoran and Sophie O’Sullivan each missed out on clinching last spots of their 1500m occasions.
Coscoran, who broke the Irish indoor and out of doors mile data final month, completed third in his first-round warmth gained by Jakob Ingebrigtsen but it surely wasn’t sufficient to progress because the Norwegian star (three minutes 39.80 seconds) and Austria’s Raphael Pallitsch (3:40.08) took the 2 qualifying spots.
The Balbriggan man left himself with an excessive amount of do within the closing phases when Ingebrigtsen surged previous him from final place to guide because the bell sounded and the Irishman was 0.69 seconds behind the Austrian.
O’Sullivan produced a private better of 4:16.68 in her warmth however that was over three seconds exterior a qualification spot as Ethiopia’s Diribe Weltejl (4:12.25), USA’s Heather MacLean (4:13.26) and Portugal’s Salome Afonso (4:13.39) progressed to the ultimate.
Coscoran nonetheless has the three,000m, which is a straight last on Saturday with James Gormley additionally operating within the Eire vest, whereas Sarah Healy shall be a robust Irish medal hope in Saturday’s ladies’s 3,000m last after profitable the European title two weeks in the past.
Sarah Lavin would be the final of the six-strong Eire group in motion when she competes within the ladies’s 60m hurdles on Sunday after ending fourth on the European Indoors.
