Ciara Mageean made it through to this evening’s European Indoor 1500m final but it was far from pretty.

Dafne Schippers smashed the European record to win the world 200m title in 21.63 seconds at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing moving her to Number 3 on the world all-time 200m list.

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