Ciara Mageean produced an assured performance in this morning’s 1500m semi-finals at the European Athletics Championships to comfortably advance to Friday’s final in Munich, while Sarah Healy failed to make it through.

After her recent silver medal at the Commonwealth Games, the 30-year-old continued her good form to set a season’s best 4:03.03 in finishing second to Poland’s Sofia Ennaoui in what was a significantly faster race than the earlier semi-final won by Tokyo silver medallist Laura Muir.

The Down native took the initiative right from the start, moving to the front where she set the pace to take the bell with Romania’s Claudia Bobocea on her shoulder.

On the final bend Ennaoui made a push for the front and eased past Mageean on the home stretch, with the top four guaranteed of progressing.

In the first semi-final, Healy’s time of 4:10.75 saw her finish in 11th place, with Muir first across the line in 4:06.40.

The final takes place on Friday evening at 7.45pm and speaking to RTÉ Sport after the race, Mageean said she felt “controlled” throughout: “I knew Bobocea would probably want to get out fast, that’s typically how she races, so I was prepared for any race. If it went slow, I was prepared for a fast finish, if it’s a bit faster from the start.”

After watching compatriots Luke McCann and Andrew Coscoran forced to jostle for position in their 1500m exploits yesterday, Mageean stated that her focus was to stay out of trouble.

“I watched the men’s 1500m yesterday and I saw the boys fall back into the field and it was scrappy and messy trying to get back.

“I could see the positioning down the home straight, I could see it up on the big screen and I knew I didn’t need to race Ennaoui to the line because I was safe in the top four. I’ll save that for the final on Friday

“I know I am in better shape than 4.03. I’m prepared for a final that will be much faster.”

Meanwhile Chris O’Donnell finished fifth in the semi-final of the 400 metres, recording a time of 45.73 seconds.

The heat was won by Britain’s Matthew Hudson (44.98) with Ricky Petrucciani of Switzerland finishing in second in 45.55.

The Sligo runner could still qualify for Wednesday’s final as a non-automatic qualifier, depending on the outcome of the other races.

A strong second half to the men’s 35km walk from Brendan Boyce saw the Finn Valley athlete secure a top-10 position.

Boyce made up 10 places to finish 10th overall in a time of 2:38:03, 11 minutes and 14 seconds down on Miguel Angel Lopez of Spain who blitzed the field to take gold.

Competing in his third European Championships and coming off the back of a 25th-place finish at the World Championships in Oregon, Boyce was with the leaders until the 6km mark when the gap to Lopez at the front went out to 15 seconds.

Two kilometres later it was pushed out to just under a minute and he was in 17th position overall.

While the Spaniard dictated terms at the front and increased the pace in testing conditions in Munich, Boyce maintained his place, going through the 16km mark in 19th place, four minutes and 22 seconds down on the leader.

The three-time Olympian, coached by Rob Heffernan, picked up 10 places in the second half of the race to secure 10th position.

Germany’s Christopher Linke was second.

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