DERVAL O’ROURKE will be fighting fit for the first round heats of the 60m hurdles at the European indoor championships in Paris on Friday.

EXPECT to see Derval O’Rourke running a lot more 100m races between now and London 2012 as her coach, Sean Cahill, attempts to improve her overall performance over the 100m hurdles.

BACK in 1992 Derval O’Rourke watched Gail Devers suffer a crashing fall after clearing the final hurdle when looking certain to claim the Olympic gold medal.

Derval O'Rourke pulled another top drawer performance out of the bag to win a precious silver medal in tonight's 100m hurdles at the European Championships in Barcelona.

Derval O'Rourke has won a silver medal for Ireland in the women's 100m hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona.

Derval O'Rourke is through to the final of the women's 100m hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona tonight.

DERVAL O’ROURKE, in her characteristic championship fashion, launched her European campaign by winning her first-round heat of the 100m hurdles, beating one of the gold medal favourites, Carolin Nytra (Germany), with consummate ease in a seasonal best time of 12.88 secs.

Derval O'Rourke's love affair with Championship racing was evident once again as she blasted through this morning's 100m hurdles heats at the European Championships in Barcelona.

Derval O'Rourke has won her 100 metres hurdles heat at the European Championships in Barcelona this morning.

IRISH team manager Patsy McGonagle believes David Gillick is ready to win his first European outdoor medal in this evening’s 400m final at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.

PAUL HESSION singled out Brendan Christian (Antigua & Barbuda) as the favourite to win the race before he went to the line for last evening’s 200m at the Bislett Games Golden League meeting in Oslo and then went on to challenge him for the lead coming off the bend.