Fionnuala Britton’s brave bid to win a medal at the European Athletics Championships in only her second ever 10,000m race fell narrowly short in Helsinki today.

Fionnuala Britton will go to the line tomorrow as gold medal favourite for the European Championship swomen’s 10,000m in Helsinki.

MULLINGAR clubmates Martin Fagan and Mark Christie could be reunited on the Irish cross-country team for the first time since 2001 when the squad for next month’s SPAR European Cross-Country Championships in Tilburg is announced.