Athletics Ireland has confirmed that World Champion Marta Domínguez will compete at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Dublin in December.

RÓISIN McGETTIGAN promised a lot going into last night’s final of the women’s 3,000m steeplechase after her fine run in Friday’s heats but she finished last in a sensational race which saw Guinara Galkina-Samitova (Russia) take the gold medal in a new world record time of 8:58.81.

SERGEY LEBID claimed his seventh title but Spaniard, Marta Dominguez, deprived the Ukraine of a double by stripping Tetyana Holovchenko of the senior women’s crown as Ireland claimed plenty of top 10 placings but no medals at the European cross-country championships in Toro, Spain, yesterday.

Paul Hession was never in contention as Jason Gardener roared to a fourth successive 60 metres gold medal in the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham.

Irish athlete Mary Cullen has recorded a new personal best time of 15:25.08 today, finished 12th in the final of the women’s 5000m today at the European Championships in Gothenburg.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN is prepared to run faster than ever in her quest for a medal at the world championships in Paris today.

Ireland's former 5000m world champion Sonia O'Sullivan comfortably qualified for Saturday's final in a season's best time of 14 minutes 55.50secs.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN made a somewhat disappointing track return in Lausanne last night when she finished a remote ninth behind runaway winner, Yelena Zadorozhnaya of Russia, in 8:54.16, her slowest competitive 3,000m in 12 years.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN will face no fewer than 10 Africans when she launches her track season at the IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting in Lausanne this evening and one of the 20 strong field, Renee Kalmer from Germany, will follow her home for the BUPA Ireland Cork City Sports on Saturday afternoon.

SONIA O’Sullivan missed out on a world record by just two seconds when winning yesterday’s Flora Light Challenge For Women in London’s Hyde Park.

Sonia O'Sullivan missed out on a world record by just two seconds while winning the Flora Light Challenge For Women in Hyde Park.

European 5,000 metres gold and silver medallists Marta Dominguez and Sonia O’Sullivan will renew their rivalry tomorrow in the Flora Light Challenge in London’s Hyde Park.

AS expected, Sonia O’Sullivan and the newly-crowned European 5,000m champion, Marta Dominguez of Spain, will renew rivalry at the Weltklasse in Zurich tonight but Gabriela Szabo has jumped ship and elected to run in the 1,500m race.

GERALDINE HENDRICKEN will end her season in whirlwind fashion taking in the Golden League meetings in Brussels on August 30 and Berlin on September 6 before rounding things off in Rieti two days later.

Ireland’s Sonia O’Sullivan has had to settle for silver for the second time at the European Championships when she lost her 5000 metres title.